Two Connecticut dailies facing closure have been rescued after a new buyer for the titles was found.
Michael Schroeder, owner of Central Connecticut Communications, will buy The Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain at a time when some media commentators are calling for US state aid to help ailing newspapers.
Prosecution argued that real-time coverage of trial of Alex Midette could prejudice case, but Judge Lael Montgomery has given the go ahead for laptops and mobiles to be used in court.
“I think there are other manageable options and less restrictive options than shutting down the flow of information during the trial,” she is reported to have said, adding that jurors and witnesses would be informed not to read news reports about the trial.
Gannett has begun its trial of ContentOne – a single website for all its US newspaper titles that can be sold to national and local advertisers.
Most content on the site will be generated by USA Today, while local titles will add the site to their own and rebrand it with local news and info.
Internet users in the U.S. viewed 12.7 billion online videos in November, up 34 per cent from a year ago, according to numbers from market researcher ComScore, reports Cnet.
Newspaper Death Watch rounds up trends for 2008, starting with the Gallup research that showed ’31 per cent of US adults now consult the internet daily for news while 40 per cent read a local newspaper’. Ссылка на порно https://www.pornotyb.com
Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development steps offers tax breaks and training funds to ailing newspaper publishers, setting a worrying precedent for the independence of the ‘free press’.
Project Report, the journalism contest organised by YouTube and the Pulitzer Center to reward non-professional journalists producing videos, is drawing to a close.
Until January 9, viewers can vote on videos produced by the five finalists, who have progressed through two previous rounds of the competition, producing a different short film each time.
Entries include videos about Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender (GLBT) groups in the US, sexual abuse by priests and a community of developmentally disabled adults.
Videos can be watched and voted for on the YouTube Project:Report channel and the winner, who will receive a $10,000 grant to report on any topic, from anywhere in the world, and a scholarship at the Pulitzer Center, will be declared on 11 January.
Barack Obama’s election victory named top news story of 2008 in Associated Press’ annual poll, voted for by US editors and news directors.
Oil prices, the Beijing Olympics and Mumbai terror attacks all feature in the list.
More from Bill Dyszel following his round-up of US magazine closures in song. Here’s the freelancer’s national anthem:
A California Michigan newspaper has formed ‘The Oakland Press Institute for Citizen Journalism,’ in response to the ‘changing face’ of the industry, the Editors Weblog.