Having missed just one issue Press Gazette will go back on stand this Friday. Former Editor Tony Loynes will be back supported by the publisher Wilmington Group. The British Press Awards will go ahead as planned on 26th March 2007. Source: Brand Republic
December 05, 2006 at 16:47
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The T rinity Mirror is considering selling its national or regional titles based on finical advisor NM Rothschild’s quarterly findings. The board hopes to announce their review results and decision December 14.
December 05, 2006 at 16:35
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As the public v. private debate continues amid local buyer rumors for many of the Times Co. and Tribune Co. assets, some are looking south for the perfect business model. The St. Petersburg Times, based in Tampa Bay, Fla, has an interesting partnership with its parent company, The Poynter Institute. Though other newspapers may look to replicate what seems like a perfect business model, the Times has not been immune to recent job cuts and profit declines seen in newsrooms across the US.
December 05, 2006 at 15:53
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On Dec. 5th, Blogburst - Pluck's blog syndication service that serves as a bridge between publishers and bloggers - is being upgraded to provide several new features.
December 05, 2006 at 15:03
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Major paid-for dailies recorded a sharp decrease in circulation numbers, due to the freesheet war in Denmark, where three new free papers ( 24 Timer, Dato and Nyhedsavisen) were launched in the last months, bringing the number up to five (alongside ‘traditional’ free papers Metro and Urban).
December 05, 2006 at 14:58
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Yahoo has added Media General to its recently developed consortium of media groups. Through the deal, Media General will move the job sections of its 25 papers to Yahoo Hotjobs, causing the group to cover over 200 newspaper’s career section. “This new opportunity will broaden our total online audience and provide us with enhanced technology to meet the growing needs of recruitment advertisers and job seekers,” said president and CEO Marshall Morton. Source:Paid Content
December 05, 2006 at 14:40
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Metro New York has received an editorial makeover. The re-design will include financial news and a new daily “newsmaker” profile. Other Metro publications will see similar changes based on guidelines coming from the Sweden based headquarters.
December 05, 2006 at 13:56
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Many websites including Amazon.com and YouTube had access from Iran shut down as ordered by the senior judiciary officials reported The Guardian this morning. Also, 10 newspapers have been threatened with closure following promotion of candidates before the official municipal election campaign, opening on Thursday, which contradicts electoral law.
December 05, 2006 at 12:55
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Human rights associations throughout the world are partnering to create an appropriate and practical search engine, Hurisearch. The engine should help the 3000 participating groups to access databases and human rights information. Hurisearch should be launched on Dec. 10th, Human Rights Day.
December 05, 2006 at 12:44
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The Fiji Times has been closed due to censorship by the military. Also, The Daily Post in Fiji closed its office yesterday and moved out all equipment following a belief that the military were en route to do the same.
December 05, 2006 at 12:41
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Newspaper advertising in the US, according to the Financial Times, is supposed to be one of the categories to suffer most in 2007 from the advertisers’ global switch to online.
December 05, 2006 at 11:59
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi confirmed the announcement that The New Straits Times Press (NSTP) and Utusan Melayu Berhad, two of the country’s main (formerly rival) newspaper companies, were considering a friendly merger. This worries press freedom activists, who are concerned by the tightened grip this might give the Malaysian government over the media.
December 04, 2006 at 16:45
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The WSJ today unveiled their new look narrow edition that will go live in January (pictured). It will be free to readers on the first day to trial the new size. It will lose 3inches (about 1 column) making the new edition 12 inches wide. This is a cost saving exercise that follows other major newspapers including the Washington Post, USA Today and Los Angeles Times. Several sites report that The New York Times will follow suit in late 2007/early 2008.
December 04, 2006 at 15:58
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Yahoo and Reuters are planning on teaming up to launch a new user-generated content web site. After Yahoo’s prior Internet video and user content deal with Current fell through, the media group teamed up with Reuters to go in a new user-generated content direction.
December 04, 2006 at 15:52
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204 million Indians read daily newspapers. That leaves 359 million literate Indians who don’t read dailies. And another 500 million who could read dailies once they become literate. A dream-market for any newspaper editor or publisher, especially considering how much and how fast the industry has boomed. And especially considering that "the media sector is just at the takeoff stage," said Siddartha Mukherjee, communications director at Bombay-based TAM Media Research.
December 04, 2006 at 15:45
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The three journalists accused of illegally publishing governmental secrets regarding Denmark’s stance on Iraq have been acquitted today by a Danish Court.
December 04, 2006 at 13:09
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Media Guardian reports that a former Press Gazette Editor, Tony Loynes, is understood to be in negotiations to buy the magazine that closed last Friday after 41 years. He is reported to be in talks with the administrator and has spoken to several journalists to see if they would be interested in returning. Source: Media Guardian
December 04, 2006 at 13:03
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Maurice Lévy , CEO of one of the world’s top advertising agencies, Publicis, recently sat down with the Financial Times to chat about the state of the media. Since being appointed CEO in 1988, Lévy, has been known for his aggressive international expansion plans for his company, including acquisitions such as Saatchi & Saatchi in 2000.
December 04, 2006 at 12:50
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A recent study release Friday stated that newspaper-advertising rates will raise 1.2 percent thanks to Internet ads. The total projected spending is $50.1 billion according to the Newspaper Association of America.
December 04, 2006 at 12:42
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Some debates never grow old, while others end in easy answers. For example, many newsrooms struggled to decide whether they should break a scoop online or wait for the print version to come out. Damon Kiesow, Online Managing Editor for the Nashua Telegraph, gave a straightforward eye-opener.
December 04, 2006 at 12:36
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 For a long time traditional journalists were very skeptical of blogs and bloggers – those ‘make-believe writers who reported on opinion’. Now the tendency is increasingly changing as newspaper companies realize the public interest and potential qualities of blogging. The Editors Weblog had an interview with Eric Newman, Vice President and General Manager of Pluck, the parent company of BlogBurst.
December 05, 2006 at 10:00
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Friday 24 th of November, a good 80 Dutch and Flemish editors and researchers gathered in the European Journalism Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, to assess and discuss several prototypes of novel newspaper products or services. All are web-based one way or another, and ready for the Web 2.0 publishing environments. The in total six demonstrators feature remote reporting tools, video content based on strategic alliances with non-journalistic partners, e-paper trials and online reader communities. Most were developed in close cooperation with specialised R&D centres. Together, the prototypes reveal the contours of the future electronic newspaper. Al least half of the demonstrators will make it to real applications, the other are subject to further testing in living lab conditions. General conclusion of the event: we need further experimentation to capture the essence of digital presence. In the conference report, the applications as well as the editors’ appraisal are described more in detail.
November 30, 2006 at 22:19
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 Like many aspects of the Web, news is becoming a collaborative activity. Social news sites such as digg.com and Newsvine have infinitely increased their audience over the past year, attracting audiences through a system of voting on their favorite stories. But sometimes democracy doesn’t provide the best in news. To fill the gap between traditional editorial boards and the wisdom of the crowds, a social news site based on trust has been created. NewsTrust.net, which goes public today, strives to help newshounds find quality journalism. The site’s founder, Fabrice Florin, gave the Editors Weblog a sneak peek at the ideas and hard work behind the latest in social news.
November 28, 2006 at 12:23
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Newspaper deadlines are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Stories that once had to wait for the morning delivery to be read can now be posted on a paper’s website as soon as the news breaks or the second the last editor gives it her final approval. In June 2006, The Guardian became the first British paper to adopt a “Web-first” policy. The meaning behind the name is self-evident, but what does the policy mean for newsrooms? Foreign Editor for the Guardian, Harriet Sherwood, described the effects of “Web-first” on print newsrooms in an email interview with the Editors Weblog.
November 22, 2006 at 10:34
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Newspaper companies beware! The journalists you are increasingly willing to let go may come back to haunt you. In today’s Internet world, all it takes is a little budget and a lot of ambition. Take the story of Paul Bass. For 25 years, Bass covered the New Haven, Connecticut area for print publications and watched them all get eaten up by corporate giants. During a yearlong book leave, he decided that he couldn’t return to a newsroom “sucked of its spirit.” His salvation? The Internet.
November 20, 2006 at 11:57
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 Newsroom designers and editorial consultants have the great responsibility at this time of changing the traditional newsroom into an integrated / multimedia newsroom. One of the main risks in this change is that authoritarian trends in newsroom management could prevail over current needs for more freedom of expression and more interaction with readers. And all that, on behalf of "modernity" and "expertise"!. In French, we say that " le diable se cache dans les détails"", which means that the implementation of a new organisation could have terrible consequences regarding the future of journalism. If we make the wrong choices today, it will be difficult to go back to the newsrooms we know today: a wrong newsroom design will give birth to low quality journalism...
November 15, 2006 at 12:47
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The New York Times launched its paid subscription service in September 2005 to mixed reviews, especially from its op-ed staff. This week’s free trial of TimesSelect confirmed their skepticism.
November 10, 2006 at 13:47
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Reassuring the security of your content from pure-Internet news aggregators such as Google and Yahoo could mean partnerships with, well, other pure-Internet news aggregators. This week, "Meta-tagging" specialist Inform.com officially announced a partnership with 6 American mainstream publishers that will make scanning the Web for specific news infinitely easier for users while also keeping users on newspaper websites.
November 08, 2006 at 08:01
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 Jennifer Carroll, Gannett's VP for new media content says "We've learned that no one wants to read a 400-column-inch investigative feature online. But when you make them a part of the process they get incredibly engaged."
November 06, 2006 at 15:40
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In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, many news organizations have been using interactives in their website coverage, and often taking advantage of Flash technology to do it. Are these graphics effective? Are they worth all the trouble? Digital media experts Alberto Cairo, Mindy McAdams and Laura Ruel give their assessment, and offer tips for future news website content producers.
November 06, 2006 at 15:24
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It's no secret that the Internet is rapidly and radically changing the traditional news landscape of top-down journalism. For over a century, the pipes through which information is distributed have generally been one-way. Now that everyone has a voice on the Internet, the pipes have been siphoned and the flow has become reciprocal, causing a monumental change in news production and consumption. Having tracked these transformations, New York University professor Jay Rosen and PressThink blogger has embarked on an ambitious project to mold a new form of journalism adjusted for the digital media world.
October 31, 2006 at 09:21
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Robb Montgomery reports from London in this video blog for the World Editors Forum.
October 28, 2006 at 17:14
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The Los Angeles Times is a prime example of a major American metro newspaper whose national and international news is trumped by news agencies and larger papers like the New York Times while its regional coverage remains inferior to local publications. Currently faced with huge losses in circulation coupled with pressure from shareholders, LAT is struggling to redefine itself in order to maintain its relevancy. A two-pronged approach is necessary: exploit local resources and diversity while overhauling the substandard website.
October 26, 2006 at 18:31
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Half a year after its launch, the new Dutch morning newspaper NRC Next is quickly making its way towards success. The tabloid newspaper, created to grow readership among young and smart adults, has reached a circulation of 70.000. This number is much more then the first minimum target of 40.000, which was set for the first year. About 70 percent of the readers belong to the primary target group: the well-educated, non-reader under the age of 35
October 18, 2006 at 14:59
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 Last week, a map of Britain took up The Independent’s entire page one, showing the location of the country’s population by race. Yep, that’s right. They put an infographic front and centre with no other stories around it. Although an atypical move for newspapers in general, The Independent is following a long-term trend towards design modernization that shows no signs of slowing.
October 13, 2006 at 09:52
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Yesterday's Google YouTube merger must be seen as an emerging business model. Google has the advertising pool and infrastructure to monetize Web pages and YouTube delivers the kind of content many advertisers want: young, smart, creative people with pocket money and spare time to spend . . .
October 10, 2006 at 20:04
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The recent American Press Institute study “Newspaper Next” had some pressing news for the newspaper industry: local information should be an immediate priority. The fact is, countless regional papers have dragged their feet when it comes to developing vibrant local hubs. With the threat of larger players hinging in on local markets, are papers too late to develop their sites?
October 09, 2006 at 12:12
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The integration of print and online in the newsroom has been a hot topic since the New York Times announced its move toward complete fusion in August 2005. A recent slew of events in the industry has propelled the idea of total print/online integration even further. But what if the industry is leaping too quickly toward the unification of two disparate media? Should integration be treated with a bit more caution?
October 04, 2006 at 09:35
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Visual forms organize information and explain complex concepts, whether via maps, charts, diagrams or illustrations. They simplify the message. They clarify the news. Can a comic book timeline do the same? Can an automated database or three-dimensional illustration? Innovators in media think so.
October 03, 2006 at 13:44
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