In a joint panel session of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum on “How to tell the truth during a revolution,” moderator Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of Journalism Training Programme, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, discusses the many difficulties of reporting events such as the recent Arab uprisings Covering those events raises… [Read more…]
March 15, 2012
At a conference last week, an Encyclopaedia Brittanica executive rose from the floor to challenge keynoter Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia. “I don’t want to be accused of killing Britannica,” Wales told Britannica UK MD Ian Grant from the stage. “There’s no danger of that,” Britannica’s Grant assured him. Just a week later, Wikipedia’s entry for… [Read more…]
January 21, 2012
Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners. Newspapers: Seventy two percent of worldwide professionals polled by IDG Connect say they are buying fewer since owning an iPad. Books: 70 percent are buying fewer. DVDs: 49 percent are buying fewer. Asia and the Middle East lead… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Book publishers don’t often share much information about their digital revenues, but Naperville, Ill.-based independent publisher Sourcebooks reports some good news, including nearly 800 percent growth in e-book revenues in 2011. The mid-sized Sourcebooks publishes over 300 books a year in a variety of categories, including nonfiction, historical fiction and romance, children’s and gift… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription. The promotion will run through… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
This is the second in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cover, from publishing to mobile to advertising. From Borders’ bankruptcy to Amazon’s ambitions, it was a busy year in book publishing. Here are five numbers to put 2011… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Cork, Ireland-based wholesale e-book supplier ePub Direct is taking €1.3 ($1.69/£1.09) million in funding to grow its business supplying e-books to digital retailers. ePub supplies titles to 116 stores including Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Waterstones… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
For most of the past hundred years, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the occasional copyright case with significant cases popping up once every 10 or 20 years. That started to change in 2001 with a big case reaching Canada’s top court every year or two. While that seemed like a busy schedule, it is… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
Journalism and media are in the midst of a major transition as citizen reporting, technology and new opportunities for profit are popping up. No matter what changes happen in the industry, journalism students need to remember the basic principles of good reporting, like writing, storytelling and investigative journalism, as well as master new media techniques… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running,… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
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