After 22 years at the printworks, The Sun will move operations fully to its Broxbourne plant.
The change in sites is marked with a change to the paper with a full colour edition of The Sun available nationwide for the first time from today.
Former deputy editor of the Scotsman succeeds Tristan Davies as Sindy editor.
ComScore has collated figures that suggest foreign visitors outnumber UK readers on several of the UK’s leading news websites.
According to the Guardian, the Daily Mail leads the way with the most overseas users with 69 per cent coming from outside these shores.
Just over half Telegraph.co.uk users (57 per cent) were from outside the UK, a similar figure to Guardian Unlimited (56 per cent) and Times Online (55 per cent).
The Independent is considering a free edition, according to rumours sweeping the media industry.
Story in the news section:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530934.php
Another news piece, Guardian planning to place ads in podcasts:
Video content on Telegraph.co.uk was downloaded 3.4m times in November, according to figures released by the website.
Yes, it’s that time again, the season of favourites lists, bests of, highlights of 2007, and rough guesses of what may happen in the coming 12 months.
I’ve brought together the few lists I have managed to find in between crazed bouts of gorging my way through East Sussex’s entire supply of mince pies and crapulent afternoons spent selecting the wine for the Christmas party (finally decided on Blue Nun – half bottles).
For what it’s worth, my predictions for the next 12 months are a pocket-sized Second Life for the Asian market, Google car insurance and marriage counselling by April and some kind of Granny app for Facebook so you can check on the vital signs of elderly relatives.
Here’s a little moment of mirth from the closing session of the Society of Editors conference in Manchester.
During the Q&A session, Media Guardian reporter Jemima Kiss asked Telegraph editor Will Lewis about the transparency of ABCe ‘benchmarking’ monthly web traffic figures and if he was planning to again use Hitwise metric results in Telegraph advertising.
The website had previously run an ad on the homepage quoting Hitwise and proclaiming its position as the top quality UK newspaper online.
The Hitwise metric is considered by some to be an inferior measurement of a websites’ traffic than the figures supplied by Nielsen/NetRatings, comScore or the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCE).
A visibly riled Lewis told her that Telegraph marketing campaigns were ‘none of her business’ and that the Telegraph site stats were open for all to see on the site.
But what was it that riled him?
Was it the Guardian’s quest to have ABCEs recognised across the industry as the sole measure of websites metrics?
Having it rubbed in that according to this metric the Telegraph trails the Guardian by quite some way, almost in a polar opposite of the print edition?
Or was he tired of the puritanical zeal on this issue that encourages Guardian employees, it seems, to ask him a similar question every time he appears in public?
Listen here to the exchange:
[audio:http://www.journalism.co.uk/sounds/kisslewis.mp3]STORY ABOUT AWARDS AND FULL LIST OF WINNERS HERE:
As Burmese citizens joined their nation’s monks in pro-democracy demonstrations, the international media became reliant on bloggers and eyewitnesses posting images, videos and accounts to the web.
Two weeks later, this flow of online information has been stemmed by a government crackdown, which, according to The Guardian, has now made all websites with the .mm suffix unavailable and reduced the number of active blogs from the region to almost zero.
Increasing control over the internet is thought to have begun last week with a block on access from within Burma to some political blogs.
A complete block of Google-owned service Blogger.com followed according to the same Guardian report, and, on Friday, internet access stopped entirely.
Through its English-language TV channel MRTV-3, the military Junta has broadcast messages branding international news providers as liars and ‘destructionists’.
The BBC has been asking for first-hand clips and statements by way of specialised comment boxes at the end of articles on the events:
Are you in the area? Are you affected by the events in Burma? Send us your comments using the form below.
You can send your pictures and moving footage to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to + 44 (0) 7725 100 100
Click here for terms and conditions on sending photos and video
When taking photos or filming please do not endanger yourself or others, take unnecessary risks or infringe any laws.
Audio and video, pictures and text sent to the BBC from people in Burma allowed for frequent, on-the-ground updates.
However, a BBC report on Friday said:
Journalists at the BBC News website say no images are now being sent from Burma and the previously fast flow of e-mail comments sent from inside the country has slowed to a trickle.
Not all sites have lost communication: The Irrawaddy news website, produced by exiled Burmese journalists, carries photos of the protests from Friday and text updates, including alerts from today.
Some blogs published by third parties, such as London-based blogger Ko Htike and the Burmese Bloggers without Borders site, which was started in response to the demonstrations, are still active.
Within Burma, internet users have been gaining access to news sites through foreign-hosted proxy sites, such as your-freedom.net and glite.sayni.net, but the latest restrictions to internet access will make even these tactics impossible.