A heartening BBC2 This World documentary last night on the success of South Africa’s Daily Sun newspaper (watch again for the next week) is a reminder that across large parts of the world print journalism is doing very well indeed. A BBC story about the documentary is here.
Improved education combined with increasing wealth is a [...]
News International has bought the domain names for versions of thelondonpaper in New York and at least ten British cities, Lou Thomas reports in the Press Gazette today.
NI, which launched its free evening, thelondonpaper, last month, say they are concentrating on London for the foreseeable future. In truth, they would be silly not to register [...]
Any blogger or journalist who is not making use of RSS feeds is wasting a huge amount of time checking their favourite sites. Now Google has updated its online reader making it, in the words of the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond, “a much stronger product, which may prove to be the best RSS reader available”.
Richmond’s [...]
The continued success of MySpace, with its membership quadrupled since Rupert Murdoch shelled-out $580m for the social networking site, has made it seem like an excellent buy. Murdoch appears to have at last got to grips with the internet after an uncharacteristically slow and shaky start.
But John Naughton in The Networker column in the Observer [...]
Wired News has set up an experiment in collaborative journalism. It has drafted a story — about Wikipedia, what else — and invited anyone who is interested to edit it.
The invitation says:
This wiki began as an unedited 1,059 word article on the wiki phenomenon, exactly as Ryan [Singel] filed it. Your mission, should you choose [...]
The decision of the New York Times to self-censor its online content by preventing British users downloading a story about the evidence against the men accused in the “liquid bomb plot” seems to set some sort of precedent.
It is using technology designed to target advertising to identify computers with British IP addresses and redirect those [...]
Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is under attack in the United States for his decision to halve the budget for cjrdaily.org to concentrate on the printed Columbia Journalism Review.
According to the New York Times: “Mr. Lemann said he was faced with the same quandary confronting most news organizations today — [...]
Anyone who enjoys reading vox pops with their predictable range of views can have a feast today looking at blogs, and comments in the mainstream media. By 8.30 this morning the BBC had 1,952 comments on the UK terror threat story.
The Guardian’s Comment is Free had a goodly number too. Cyberjournalist.net links to a “a [...]
As a cub reporter I used the phrase “objective journalism” in a newsroom debate. My colleagues looked away and I felt like the man in the Bateman cartoon who ordered a whisky and soda in the Pump Room at Bath. The news editor patiently explained to me that objectivity was impossible in journalism: everything we [...]
The Washington Post is to link to rival news sources in a move which is seen as countering the leakage of readers and advertisers to Google and Yahoo. It has signed up with Inform.com, a news aggregator which scans news and blog sites, to provide links to related articles published by others.
Inform Publisher Services provides [...]
