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Martin Stabe on our new Buckinghamshire Advertiser site: it’s a newspaper site, but in more of a blog format, and powered by Movable Type.
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“But I think there’s a better way to define journalism – one that does not automatically disqualify thousands of blogs, wikis and discussion boards online. It’s a broader definition, one that discounts process and instead looks more toward truth.”
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“OhmyNews introduced the world to “citizen journalism” — breaking news, investigative reporting, tales of daily life, written by thousands of amateurs all over South Korea. But now the online newspaper finds itself in the throes of change.”
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links for 2007-03-31
31 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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links for 2007-03-30
30 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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Regular monthly reporting schedule for ABCe figures for publishers’ sites alongside national print circulation figures on ABC Group Product Report.
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“The site will now load more quickly, and will also feature a multimedia strip that gives the site’s video offerings a permanent showcase on the homepage.”
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McClatchy-Yahoo news partnership: “They won’t just be sending news stories, though that’s a foundation for the plan. In addition, they’ll produce blogs available only at Yahoo! and McClatchy that take readers deeper”
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links for 2007-03-29
29 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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2006 online advertising revenues up 41% year-on-year to £2.016bn, 11.4% of total advertising revenues, above national newspapers.
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“The point is that digital takes a higher share of advertising in the UK than any other country. That 11.4% compares to a global average is 5.8%.”
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Underlying Associated Northcliffe Digital revenues up 48% year-on-year (141% including new acquisitions). Regional revenues from digital publishing up 57% year-on-year, largely in the recruitment category.
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Principles are: accuracy, transparency, fairness, thoroughness and independence.
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“Google made $1.6bn (£872m) in the UK last year – around 43% of the record £2.016bn ploughed into the medium by marketers.” Up from 35% share of 05 online ad revenue. Now accounts for 75% of the £1.2bn paid search spend in 06.
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“In 2006 £2.016 billion was spent online by advertisers targeting the 31 million (GfK NOP) people connected to the internet. The growth has increased the internet’s share of all advertising revenues to 11.4%, up from 7.8% in 2005.”
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Hachette Filipacchi US CEO Jack Kliger: “By the end of the year, digital will represent between 7 percent and 10 percent of our revenues and in the next three to five years, I would say that number will triple.”
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“A much larger percentage of story text was read, on average, online than in print: 77% online, 62% in broadsheet, 57% in tabloid” [Via Shane Richmond]
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Poynter launches Eyetrack 07: “Readers select stories of particular interest and then read them thoroughly.”
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“Print readers are more methodical, while online readers scan more by a margin of about 25%… Online readers are drawn to navigational elements and teasers. Print readers are drawn to large headlines and photos.”
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“The reason The New York Times, USA Today and others have started combining what had been separate is because the Web is now mature enough to hold its own when put into the same petri dish with a demanding newsroom. “
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“Meg Pickard has been appointed as the Guardian website’s head of communities and user experience. Ms Pickard was formerly the consumer experience lead for social media at AOL Europe.”
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links for 2007-03-28
28 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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“GCap Media, Britain’s largest radio group, intends to focus on online media after “stabilizing” its plummeting advertising performance. Annual revenue is down nine percent, according to this morning’s trading update “
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“Emap today forecast a ‘weak’ year ahead for its radio and consumer magazines businesses as it reported revenues down 2% across the group. Emap is working to develop its digital operations, and is forecasting digital revenues up 35% at £127m.”
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World Editors’ Forum report: “Looking to find out what editors-in-chief of the world’s newspapers think about the rapidly changing media landscape? Best practices in integrating your paper’s print and online operations?”
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Mark Glaser: “How the Newspaper of the Future Will Operate Online” Including: “Reorganize newspaper sites into a series of micro-sites on niche topics.”
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“Why do we so often overlook the art of writing witty, compelling headlines and blurbs online? … we should all take greater care not to belittle the everyday editing that goes on. It is crucial yet thankless work.”
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Peter Boman appointed General Manager of JICIMS, to “manage the development of a framework for a proposed online planning currency to sit alongside existing industry currencies such as BARB, NRS and RAJAR.”
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The Telegraph signs up three regular commenters to blog on their site. “This is quite a change for us. At first we didn’t even allow freelance writers to blog – everyone had to be staff.”
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Newsroom Barometer: “Online will be the most common platform within 10 years, news will mostly be free, and opinion and in-depth commentary will increase in importance.”
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links for 2007-03-27
27 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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Round-up of postings on the current ‘future of news’/'death of newspapers?’ meme.
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Response to Tim Luckhurst’s IoS piece on the Telegraph’s multimedia strategy: “You don’t just flick a switch and turn this stuff on. It requires learning, training and a shift in culture. It requires planning, investment and, most of all, time.”
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Incubator teams of 10-15 editorial, commercial and technical staff working with consultants from McKinsey on projects with a fusion of “content, community and commerce”. Motorcycle News and Today’s Golfer first to relaunch.
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“today, a visit to WordPress.com and a phone call to FM publishing gets you your publishing platform and your ad sales group. All you have to do then is write good content, and the audience will come.”
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New blog from Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford.
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“Change or die is the media’s new watchword.”
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links for 2007-03-26
26 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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“instead of asking people to donate cash or pay for news to help keep journalism alive, neither of which will fly, why not ask people to donate classified advertising.”
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Dave Winer argues that, to survive, mainstream media needs to make journalism a required course for every graduate and embrace the best bloggers.
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Doc Searls’ 11-point plan to help newspapers adapt and survive.
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Summary of coverage of the enormo journalism.org State Of The News Media 2007 report.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “you can start weaving together real events into stories. As these start to approach being stories, we turn into a massive publisher.”
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“you should put content up when you have it and allow users to decide”
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Former Scotsman.com general manager Alistair Brown is now head of digital strategy for The List, the Glasgow and Edinburgh listings magazine. Three former colleagues are joining him.
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“New Zealand newspaper company, APN News & Media, is outsourcing 70 sub-editing and design jobs”
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“researchers found that response to the second task was delayed by up to a second when the study participants were given the two tasks at about the same time”
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“And youth has huge advantages. It means you can quietly dump a project that isn’t working. It means editors can come and go without apocalyptic commentaries. It means you can be light of foot and engaged of brain.”
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“The innovators will be way ahead, having learned what doesn’t work as well as what does. Those who follow the pioneers will have to reinvent the wheel every time.”
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Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron: “Even though we have a relatively large audience [of 200,000 subscribers], advertisers are just not happy to do ’small deals’.”
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I couldn’t make the Guardian’s Changing Media Summit 2007 through work commitments, so here’s a round-up of the coverage from around the web.
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Guardian Changing Media Summit coverage round-up
25 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
I couldn’t make the Guardian’s Changing Media Summit 2007 through work commitments, so here’s a round-up of the coverage from around the web.
First stop: good overviews from Organ Grinder and Mike Butcher.
Then, for your print-out-and-skim-on-the-way-home pile, you’ll want to dive into a mix of brilliant near-transcripts from Suw Charman and Kevin Anderson at Strange Attractor, coverage from Greenslade, and updates from my former colleague Jodie Hopperton from the Editors’ Weblog at WAN.
Session by session:
- Opening remarks: Greenslade
- Reuters looks at the changes for ‘old media’: Strange Attractor, Greenslade, Editors’ Weblog.
- Care in the community – from new media to social media: Strange Attractor, Editors’ Weblog
- Gaming and virtual economies – players in control: Strange Attractor, Greenslade
- Radio in a multiplatform world: Strange Attractor, Greenslade
- Democratising content in the user-in-control era: Strange Attractor, Editors’ Weblog, Greenslade
- Business model for free content: Strange Attractor, Greenslade, Editors’ Weblog
- I’ll see you in court: the rights and wrongs of DRM: Strange Attractor, Greenslade
- Will IPTV change TV forever: Strange Attractor, Greenslade
- The mobile session: Greenslade
- The future of media: Strange Attractor, Greenslade, Editors’ Weblog
Let me know in the comments if I’ve missed or mixed any links.
Categories: Changingmedia · Conferences · Journalism · Media future · Newspapers
links for 2007-03-25
25 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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“What has changed in media is who is charge, who is control. I think we need to be honest on how much previous popularity of media was down to quality and how much was down to control. There used to be only so many channels.”
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Redesigns all round.
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National newspaper ABCs – February 2007.
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Paste the address of a feed that includes geoRss data into the Google Maps search box and you’ll now sse the results overlaid on a map.
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New blog from Nick Turner at CN Group. (Via Martin)
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The Express’s online editor introduces their new site. (Has anyone found the feed specifically for his blog?)
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Interview with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive’s video journalism and multimedia head.
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“Guardian Media Group, publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has agreed to sell a minority stake in Trader Media Group to private equity group Apax Partners for about £675m.”
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Top UK sites in February from Comscore. Virgin Media biggest gainer following relaunch. Blogging networks also growing strongly.
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“We’re very fortunate that our Chairman, Donald Graham, has been enthusiastic [about our online operations] and has not merged us back into the paper. They would just tell us what to do.”
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Round-up of sites with a crowdsourcing element, covering content creation, prediction, and organisation/aggregation.
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links for 2007-03-23
23 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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“What they’re planning is a premium content site that’s ad supported from the beginning but, according to an executive familiar with the distribution side, also will grant some rights to users.”
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“Guardian blogs editor told an industry conference that news groups trying to make money out of blogging communities were ‘putting the cart before the horse’.”
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Analysis of how the profile of print newspaper readers compares with that of newspaper site users.
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“People are about twice as likely to play a video, or replay one that started automatically, than they are to click through standard JPG or GIF image ads.”
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Independent.co.uk online revenues up 65% year-on-year, though no absolute figures given.
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“Mr Brown cut to the chase just a bit too late for our deadlines yesterday. Do I look bothered? Should I be? We got the detail of his budget speech online, even if it missed the print product.”
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“Think of it as a Web Safari through the most interesting things happening in Bakersfield today.”
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links for 2007-03-22
22 March 2007 · Leave a Comment
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“This won’t affect big advertisers much, because they already track ROI on CPC advertising very closely. For smaller advertisers though, click fraud can wreak havoc.”
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“Twitter may be encouraging its early adopters to use the service in a relatively banal form of content, but technology adoption never works out quite as the developers of new services imagined or even intended.”
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“Oodle, a classified ad startup that sells featured listings across its own site and network, has raised $11 million in a second round from current investors Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures, and new investor JAFCO Ventures”
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US: “Several newspaper companies today reported big hits to their revenues in early 2007.”
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New online contact management and task management site from 37Signals.
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“As more and more of the Web is becoming remixable, the entire system is turning into both a platform and the database.”
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Som of the ways that Google’s blog search may rank results.
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“US newspaper advertising figures for 2006 tell the tale better than words… Online continues fantastic growth with 31.5%, about $637,000 more than the year before, but the end of the day the Internet’s gains failed to surpass print’s losses.”
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Hello. I'm David Black. I work as Group Director of Digital Publishing at Trinity Mirror plc. This personal blog includes links on the trends transforming newspaper and classified businesses online. 
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