A look at Tina Brown’s new website, the Daily Beast, which is scheduled to go live today (Monday) at midday UK time – in the ‘softest of launches’.
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Afaqs.com: Delhi newspaper going national and launching weekly in nine state capitals
NaiDunia Media has launched a national edition of its daily newspaper, NaiDunia, and will launch a weekly newspaper and magazine combo, Sunday NaiDunia, in nine state capitals.
Media Week: MSNBC.com gives ‘predator’ reporter his own website
MSNBC.com have launched a website for their ‘predator’ reporter, Chris Hansen. The site features video and text coverage to go alongside investigative stories featured on his show, Dateline.
Online Journalism Review finds new home at Knight Center
The Online Journalism Review, run by the University of Annenburg’s journalism school, has been resurrected by the Knight Foundation’s Digital Media Center, Geneva Overholser, the university’s new director of the school of journalism, announced yesterday.
The site closed in its previous incarnation in June after 10 years of reporting on the ‘transition from other media to online reporting and production’ for mid-career journalists.
Major OJR contributor and media academic Robert Niles will continue to write for the new-look site, which will focus on the following:
- Reporting and writing in a conversational environment
- Investigative reporting in the internet era
- Entrepreneurial journalism
- ‘Guerilla-marketing’ the news
New articles will be added to the site twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays.
What’s new in the WSJ.com redesign
The Wall Street Journal set its revamped site live today, so here’s a breakdown of what’s changed and what’s new:
New
- Journal Community – a social networking feature for the site’s paying subscribers, which lets them comment on articles, ‘ask the expert’ and join topic-based networks and discussion groups
- Subscriber-only sections marked with a key icon and available for preview by non-subscribers
- Newsreel – a scrolling, horizontal panel topping article pages, which links to other top stories. (Seems to be on most US stories at the moment, as shown in the picture below)
- New video player and slideshow viewer
- A new WSJ.com mobile reader for the Blackberry
- New management section – available to subscribers only
Changes
- Expanded content across its What’s News, Heard on the Street, small business, technology, US and world news, politics, personal finance and lifestyle sections
- Improved navigation – including horizontal menu bar across all pages
- Redesigned article pages to support more multimedia content and provide ‘related analysis’
Paying subscribers to the site, which WSJ claims have risen to more than 1 million, will also have increased access to the site’s archive.
AP: New business news site from online magazine Slate
Online magazine Slate launched a spin-off financial news site today, bringing together business tools and analysis.
NYTimes.com: New WSJ.com uses its community of subscribers
The Wall Street Journal will activate a revamped version of its website tomorrow, but the existing wall that blocks non-subscribers from reading most of the site’s business news articles will remain.
MediaGuardian: Northcliffe will publish more websites than newspapers
Northcliffe Media is to publish 45 new local websites – bringing the number of the group’s online sites higher than its number of newspapers.
SpinSpotter: unspinning online news?
Aimed at uncovering ‘bias and inaccuracy’ in online news stories, new service SpinSpotter has gone live.
The site, which describes itself as ‘very beta’, lets users install a special toolbar – Spinoculars – to identify, share and edit online articles, which they consider biased.
“I believe that journalism has become spin-heavy because journalists operate in an echo chamber. They eat with other journalists, socialize with them, and ride in cabs together. Closeness of groups can drive closeness of opinion and intellectual laziness,” said Todd Herman, founder and chief creative officer of SpinSpotter, in an open letter.
SpinSpotter has attempted to create an objective criteria for what is and what is not biased by working with US journalism schools and using the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics.
“Their [the journalism schools’] expert knowledge (…) were then combined with guided user input and sophisticated algorithms to identify each instance of bias and inaccuracy in online media, whether it is a reporter stating opinion as fact, an unattributed adjective, a paragraph lifted from a press release, or an expert source with a clear conflict of interest,” a press release from SpinSpotter said (it’s okay, I’ve flagged it up and linked to the release).
Looks like the Spinoculars are only available for Firefox at the minute. Once downloaded and turned on they’ll identify if elements of a news story have previously been identified by another SpinSpotter user.
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SpinSpotter comes hot on the heels of NewsCred – a site aiming to gauge the credibility of news sources – launched late last month.
Reuters: Michael Moore will release documentary online for free
Michael Moore will release his most recent documentary, ‘Slacker Uprising’ exclusively, and for free, on the Internet on September 23.