David Black

Amy Gahran: “[Wikis] could play a valuable role… in helping communities and news pros collaborate to create a less fragmented view of what’s happening, what came before, what might come next, and how it all matters and interrelates”

Mock-up of the Washington Post redesigned with more wiki and social media features.

More on IA Japan’s Washington Post-as-a-wiki mock-up: “The LA Times failed because they used a courageous yet – in hindsight – incredibly naive approach. Their most obvious mistake is that they allowed anonymous posting.”

Data on top global news sites, demographics, advertisers and ad formats from Nielsen Netratings.

“[Nielsen's internet audience figures] seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs [online] that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren’t natural news consumers.”

“The Guardian has become the latest publisher to test a smaller format newspaper aimed at the younger readers which print titles are finding increasingly elusive.”

“We now see more clearly than ever that classified ads are content, and probably one of the oldest forms of user-contributed content in newspapers”