Companies such as McDonald’s and Nestle are using mobile and social networks to target junk food ads at youngsters – avoiding a marketing pledge on such advertising.

Dave Lee suggested a blogging circle of young/new journalists. Journalism.co.uk is looking to host. Suggestions please.

The Gazette is the latest Trinity Mirror title to relaunch with a network of local news sites incorporating local bloggers.

Hitwise figures suggest the search engine accounted for 69.17 per cent of searches in the US in June.

The latest launch of the device in 21 countries has led to a 2 per cent rise in Apple’s stock.

Olive Riley had recently taken to blogging, posting more than 70 times in the last year.

Happy Birthday MyFootballWriter – here’s to many more.

Using speech recognition technologies videos uploaded to YouTube’s politicians channels will be searchable by their spoken content. Users will also be able to jump to a searched for word in the video.

The minute-long clip shows Khadr being questioned at the prison camp.

The CEO of human-powered search engine Mahalo.com has ‘retired’ from the blogosphere.

Photographers from US regional newspaper finding the frame discuss the story behind their images.

The Dutch Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that allows the country’s AIVD secret service to deploy ‘special investigation techniques’ such as phone-tapping following a dispute with De Telegraaf newspaper.

A journalist from the San Jose Mercury News captures his own lay-off by the paper.

PDA catches up with paidContent editor and founder Rafat Ali, as the site’s owner ContentNext is bought up by the Guardian.

The paper has reorganised its operations along the same lines as sister Trinity Mirror titles the Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Post. Part of the relaunch includes a roster of local bloggers and a new YouTube channel.

Newspapers should get out of the printing/technology business. Google (or anyone else who wants to step up) should develop a ‘platform for news’ for the press.

Motion “The only future for print media is online” defeated in House of Commons debate. Comments from special adviser to House of Lords’ investigation into media ownership once again raise questions over what the point of it all was.

Short-form content will be available through three new channels on the internet TV platform.

Crowd-sourced content creating a magazine and a community around the London Underground’s Northern Line.

Flair magazine has created an interactive mobile magazine compatible with a range of handsets.

Qik has released one major update and two new features that will make broadcasting your content faster and more streamlined.

Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead…

Facebook has shut down one of the site’s most popular applications after ‘privacy violations’.
The removal of Social Hi comes just one week after the site’s fourth biggest application Top Friends was pulled after a hacker made users’ private details publ

Staff at the Berliner Zeitung newspaper in Germany are so unhappy with their owner, David Montgomery, that they took out an advert in a rival German newspaper advertising for a new proprietor.

Using material uploaded to the internet by users of social-media websites like YouTube, Facebook or personal blogs without permission is a risky approach for major publishers, barrister Christina Michalos of 5 Raymond Buildings warned the Media Law Confer

Paul Bradshaw asks in a video post: ““What would make you post video comments?”

“Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.”

“The latest analysis from Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt focuses on “bounce rates” and getting that elusive “second click”. It’s pretty much in line with everything experts have been saying on this topic for the last couple of years: unique visitors ar

“The BBC is moving away from desktop apps made by Microsoft-backed Skinkers and instead bringing production in-house, switching to Adobe’s Flash-based cross-platform Flex and AIR frameworks.”

“Max Mosley, the president of motor racing’s governing body, has been allowed to pursue his claim for breach of privacy against the News of the World over its report that he took part in a “Nazi-themed” orgy.”

“The Daily Mirror was not published in the Republic of Ireland today after technical problems meant the content could not be sent to the printer.”

This might be cool. Digg has created a new feature — which debuts in beta later this week — that analyzes your past Digging activity to discover “Diggers like you.” You can see what they’re Digging, and by extension discover some of the most int

The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday announced plans to cut 250 positions across the company, including 150 positions in editorial

Trinity Mirror shares today crashed 25% after the group said profits would be 10% lower than expected.

Lord Heseltine, the chairman of Haymarket Media Group, has warned of tightening trading conditions over the next 18 months, as the magazine publisher today announced a 5% increase in pre-tax profits to £31.7m for last year.

Condé Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the Jewish Chronicle’s editor, David Rowan, to edit it.

Trinity Mirror shares suffered a record one-day fall yesterday after the newspaper publisher admitted that advertising at the Daily Mirror and its sister titles had collapsed by between 12 per cent and 14 per cent in May and June.

“OK – I’m a rubbish reviewer, but here we go.”

ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has criticised the Office of Fair Trading’s decision to refer proposed video on demand service Kangaroo to the Competition Commission, saying there was a “serious problem” with the regulatory framework.

“In the sometimes fraught relationship between old and new media, the BBC is the latest organisation to come under the spotlight.”

The Associated Press didn’t know what it stepped in when it sent a lawyer’s letter to the blog Drudge Retort (a Drudge Report parody) demanding that it take down headlines and excerpts from wire-service stories as short as 33 words long. This set off a bl

The supervisory board of Wegener, the Dutch newspaper group 87 per cent-owned by Mecom, resigned on Friday in a row with David Montgomery, the company’s executive chairman over the appointment of a new chief executive.

Monthly page impressions for the website of Britain’s biggest selling regional newspaper have topped the four million mark – a rise of more than 60 pc.

NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, follows in the footsteps of BBC and today decided to become an OpenID provider

We are really excited to announce that we have just integrated with Twitter. What that means is that when you make a prediction on Hubdub you can then immediately drop it into your Twitter stream. Additionally, you can opt to save your Twitter log in deta

It was a picture that would make many blush: Cristiano Ronaldo, in swimming shorts, nestling between the legs of his bikini-clad girlfriend on a beach in Sardinia, a fig leaf for her dignity. The Daily Mail ran it on page 23, in among other less racy shot

“[W]ith the introductions of Rooms, FriendFeed is no longer a lifestream aggregator anymore – it is the perfect platform for sharing and discussing content with groups focused on a specific topic.”

“There appears to be no compromise. The BBC feels it is acting logically by fulfilling its public service remit. Regional owners are also acting logically by defending their turf. In truth, both reflect the fact that none of us know what the future holds.

Trinity Mirror Group has warned that its full year profits will be 10% lower than expected, blaming deteriorating conditions in the advertising market.

In a new letter to its shareholders on Wednesday, Yahoo once again explained why a search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google is far superior to an alternate proposal that Microsoft had made to buy Yahoo’s search business.

Further to my posting about a Californian newspaper testing the subbing facilities provided in India, here’s a much more significant example of US newspapers outsourcing to the sub-continent.

Seven editors-in-chief from Wegener, Netherlands’ largest publisher of regional papers, have written a furious letter to Mecom chairman David Montgomery expressing their “grave concern” about the future of their titles a year after they were bought by his

“most media people don’t realise that blogging is a community strategy. They think of it as a publishing process and, perhaps, as articles published with a particular tone of voice. They certainly don’t think of it as a conversation.”

“A study by The Kelsey Group predicts that small and medium-sized businesses in local markets will increase their video spending from $10.9 million in 2007 to $1.5 billion in 2012.”

“Welcome to the new-look home of Sky News online. I hope you will find it useful, informative, entertaining, and an improvement on its predecessor.”

The Associated Press will begin rolling out details of its new pricing to members this week, a plan that will return up to $21 million to its U.S. member newspapers.

As content recognition software gets more sophisticated, expect more copyright-related battles online like the recent AP-blogger flap

Alan Rusbridger ruminates at the Frontline Club, pressed by Stephen Sackur, on the changing face of news and the problems of going 24/7:

Facebook has confirmed that it will launch in-line Mini Feed comments later today.

Semantic journalism is a vision for the future of journalism. As the writer works on her article, her computer would gather data on the matter, from pictures to other articles to assessing global opinion trends.

It’s a link economy, stupid

In part two of his seminar to the Guardian, as part of the Future of Journalism series, Jeff Jarvis argues that links are worth more than content

YouTube accounted for almost 50% of the 3.5bn video clips viewed by UK web users in March, well ahead of the 1.2% share of the BBC and its iPlayer service, according to research firm comScore.

The new CNET home page includes a carousel highlighting several stories across News, Reviews, and Downloads, as well as an integrated video player for CNET TV content

The debate over blogging’s usefulness to journalism tends to get stuck in a cul de sac, mainly because too few people – well, too few journalists – treat it seriously.

Paid Content UK chats with FT.com head

Magazine publisher IPC Media has bought the casual gaming website Mousebreaker in an effort to increase its access to an audience of young male internet users.