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 19, 2012
by: Kristina Ackermann This year, Editor & Publisher once again placed an open call for readers to submit their ideas, projects, and new ways of thinking that are helping them push through the difficult economic climate and put some dollars back in their wallets, and once again we were impressed with the results. Publishers from… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
by: Nu Yang Even though today’s reader wants to find the latest headlines immediately with just a click of a button, Britain’s satirical newspaper Private Eye has stuck by the phrase “hot off the press” for 50 years. The newspaper doesn’t publish online — if you want to read its content, you have to buy… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
« Le Huffington Post donne accès au meilleur du Web, grâce à des liens vers d’autres médias. » Vous lancez le Huffington Post en France sur un marché de l’information en ligne déjà bien encombré : comment allez-vous vous différencier ? Le Huffington Post, c’est une combinaison de contenus originaux , d’agrégation, de blogs et… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
Premium content is making a comeback. The signs are appearing with more frequency, across multiple digital channels: Tablets: Content is experiencing a bit of a renaissance on the iPad and other tablets. Publishers including Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, and Bonnier have announced significant increases in digital subscriptions. Earlier this week, the UK’s Future Publishing told… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’s most popular newspaper. News Of The World relaunched on the web and iPad for £1.99 a month in September 2010, including with SMS payment – ten months before it was… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
Stuck in one of the worst recessions of all time this year’s salary survey, which has been produced by media recruitment specialist Sylex, paints a slighter brighter picture for the industry. edia Salary Survey: what should you be paid? After a 2010 that finally saw pay and recruitment freezes lifted last year, 2011 was witness… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
One side effect of downsizing at most newspapers: a surplus of office space. That may be a cold blooded way of seeing the empty desks that haunt newsrooms and advertising departments, but in an era where newspapers get bought largely for the value of their underlying real estate, the fact is that’s square footage that… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
The Boston Globe is quietly testing a redesign of its Your Town product on Boston.com to give the locally focused sites a more engaged, real-time feel. And “real-time feel” is short for a blog-like, Twitter-like stream of stories and information. Your Town is a network of 50 sites dedicated to local news in the towns… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
The expansion of Bratislava-based Piano Media into Slovenia is just the beginning of the company’s efforts to bring national paywalls to five European countries by year’s end. Eight Slovene media outlets have agreed to unite behind a single paywall starting Jan. 16. It’s the cable TV model: Pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited access… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
Looks like no let-up in the pace of technology change in the media world. Whilst at first sight daunting for the niche, independent consumer or b2b publisher, the reality is that there are now more opportunities than ever before to publish content on many channels worldwide and make money. And the development of low-cost services,… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
A federal judge in Portland, Oregon has declared that a local “investigative blogger,” doesn’t qualify as a journalist — calling into question whether online hyperlocal news publishers should be treated differently than traditional media. Crystal Cox calls herself an “investigative blogger” and runs sites “exposing corruption.” Obsidian Finance Group filed a $10 million defamation claim… [Read more…]
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