• Hugo Chavez's Diabolical Conspiracies

    Updated: 2011-06-30 16:53:42
    The Washington Post's Juan Forero comments today (6/30/11) on how Hugo Chavez's illness means that he's off television: Chavez governs like the host of a reality show, cameras always rolling as he presides over summits, hectors opponents and warns of diabolical American plots to unseat him. Wherever would he get such ridiculous ideas.

  • HTC Unveils ChaCha, Brings Integrated Facebook Button To The Masses

    Updated: 2011-06-30 16:24:53
    Facebook has become an integral part of our lives, many users obsess about their wall posts, photo updates and social gaming such as Farmville and Empires & Allies and while Facebook had done a decent job offering a mobile application that users can download, there has never been a phone with more dedicated to the [...]

  • Facebook Circles: Create Facebook Lists Google Circles Style

    Updated: 2011-06-30 11:54:26
    When everyone jumped on the Google+ bandwagon over the last 24 hours, just before realizing that Google+ is a rather boring network without all your nephews and their three cousins absent from the select Club by Yourself, one of the first things users liked were Google Circles. As Paul Farol correctly pointed out in his [...]

  • UK: Rusbridger: staking future on print is 'truly reckless'

    Updated: 2011-06-30 09:28:05
    Betting the future of The Guardian on print would have been "truly reckless", according to editor Alan Rusbridger.Writing exclusively in the July edition of Press Gazette magazine, Rusbridger insisted the shift to a "digital future" did not mean The Guardian was turning its back on print, pointing out that its most of its revenues still come from its print edition. Continue reading on Press Gazette

  • Editorial: Ability, Determination, and Guts Define the Road Ahead

    Updated: 2011-06-30 09:05:31
    Are you unsure of your role in life? Do you feel like you don't know the real you? If you answered yes to these questions, there's a good chance you're a newspaper in need of Dr. Phil's couch. nbsp; It wouldn't be difficult to convince newspapers that identity crises escalate during times of transition.Continue reading on Editor & Publisher

  • Assigning value to online content

    Updated: 2011-06-29 09:35:13
    A Los Angeles-based company is attempting to accomplish what online publishers have been chasing for the past 15 years -- namely, placing value on a piece of content.JumpTime, founded by a group of former executives from the likes of MTV Networks and Yahoo, this month is taking the wraps off a software service that affixes a price tag to articles in real time. It also helps determine the future value of those articles.Continue reading on MediaFile

  • Biz Stone leaves Twitter

    Updated: 2011-06-28 23:44:18
    Biz Stone, co founder of Twitter, has decided to step away from the micro-blogging giant. Word is that internal turbulence was at the root of his departure. It seems like yet another twist in the growing plot that one article on Fortune says includes ”secret board meetings, executive power struggles, a plethora of coaches and consultants, [...]

  • Help EFF Topple a Troll

    Updated: 2011-06-28 21:52:10
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  • Twitter for Newsrooms Now Available For Media Use

    Updated: 2011-06-28 17:20:19
    As the battle to grab Tweets for news reporting continues to heat up Twitter on Tuesday officially launched Twitter for Newsrooms, a resource for media company’s that attempts to explain exactly how to best utilize 140-character tidbits of information. Twitter created the newsroom with four section in mind: #Report, #Engage, #Publish and #Extra. The first option [...]

  • USA: Social media is not the enemy of journalism, Pew report indicates

    Updated: 2011-06-28 10:02:36
    : , World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives USA : Social media is not the enemy of journalism , Pew report indicates Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 28, 2011 at 3:02 AM The internet and

  • How to sell content by making it easy to buy

    Updated: 2011-06-28 09:34:51
    World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives How to sell content by making it easy to buy Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 28, 2011 at 2:34 AM A resolute consortium of media companies in , of all

  • Andrew Breitbart Is an Ink Blot

    Updated: 2011-06-27 18:14:04
    That's not my opinion-- that's what I learned reading the New York Times today (6/27/11). Jeremy Peters profiles the right-wing scam artist, telling readers (emphasis added): Some of his reader-generated scoops have reverberated all the way to the halls of the United States Capitol, like the Weiner photos and undercover video he released of ACORN workers [...]

  • USA: NY Times Paywall May Be Working, Could Work Better

    Updated: 2011-06-27 11:19:52
    : , World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives USA : NY Times Paywall May Be Working , Could Work Better Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 27, 2011 at 4:19 AM There's been a lot of hand wringing

  • UK: Changing the Guardian through guerilla usability testing

    Updated: 2011-06-27 11:06:25
    : World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives UK : Changing the Guardian through guerilla usability testing Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 27, 2011 at 4:06 AM by Martin Belam I work as Lead

  • Facebook Scam of the Week: Ryan Dunn Clickjacking

    Updated: 2011-06-26 18:34:48
    Clickjackers tend to find the easiest target and expose it in the name of pageviews and clicks for their scams and this week they have taken to Facebook using Ryan Dunn as their motive. Dunn died this week when he sped off the road in his Porsche at 140MPH while under the influence of alcohol. [...]

  • Will we be watching more TV and movies on Facebook? Netflix CEO joins Facebook board

    Updated: 2011-06-24 02:05:18
    Facebook has actually made social connections more entertaining, rendering even some of my most boring relatives, friends, co-workers, and casual acquaintances a bit more interesting. Now that Netflix chairman and CEO Reed Hastings has joined Facebook’s board, I’m wondering what’s going to be down the road of my life on Facebook. Will I one day [...]

  • Winklevoss Twins Drop Lawsuit Against Facebook

    Updated: 2011-06-23 06:01:33
    Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, better known to The Social Network viewers as The Winklevoss Twins have decided to end their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. The twins have for years accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for Facebook when they contracted him to build ConnectU while Zuckerberg was still a student at [...]

  • Swiss Post plans new personalised daily paper

    Updated: 2011-06-21 17:42:28
    Swiss Post plans to launch a new personalised daily newspaper at the end of November 2011. As part of a one-year pilot project, the online version of MyNewspaper will also be available in Germany. Further publishers will be able to participate in this innovative project.MyNewspaper is a flexible solution which enables readers to compile a personalised daily newspaper based on around 30 publications. Continue reading on World of Print

  • How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs

    Updated: 2011-06-21 17:31:55
    by Lauren RabainoA former colleague of mine, William Davis, understands what a "web first" workflow is, and has made it happen through software at his newspaper in Maine. The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed its full transition to open source blogging software, WordPress.Continue reading on 10,000 Words

  • USA: Augusta's Paper Finds Paywall Success

    Updated: 2011-06-21 13:54:35
    : World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives USA : Augusta's Paper Finds Paywall Success Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 21, 2011 at 6:54 AM For many newspaper bosses , the introduction of an

  • Mobile apps for news: Do something!

    Updated: 2011-06-21 13:43:27
    One thing is obvious about smartphone users: they like to DO stuff. Rarely will they passively read or watch anything on their phones for more than a minute. Unfortunately, the vast majority of news orgs' mobile news apps mostly just repackage the content of a complete news website. That is not a very compelling mobile app experience.So try making news apps that do what apps do best: experiment with releasing smaller, special-purpose apps that focus on interactivity...Continue reading on Knight Digital Media Center

  • UK: The Guardian Quickens Its Journey To A Life With Less Print

    Updated: 2011-06-20 10:13:40
    : World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives UK : The Guardian Quickens Its Journey To A Life With Less Print Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 20, 2011 at 3:13 AM Guardian News Media has

  • Paper vs. Digital: The future is everywhere

    Updated: 2011-06-20 09:33:32
    The future of content appears to lie in the complex world of embracing all storytelling forms. New research suggests that multi-channel content distribution and marketing of both print and digital products are essential for reaching consumers who are now consuming both in nearly equal amounts. Continue reading on Newspaper Next

  • USA: TribLocal Quietly Blooms to 88 Hyperlocal Sites -- And Growing

    Updated: 2011-06-16 17:12:46
    : World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers News World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers WAN Events WAN Reports World Editors Forum Press Freedom Young Readers Programme Shaping the Future of the Newspaper The Editors Weblog Arab Media African Media World Editors Forum WEF Homepage Annual WEF Conference Study Tours WEF Webinars E-consulting for editors Trends in Newsrooms Report The Newsroom Barometer All news feed Industry Trends feed Mobile feed Advertising feed Employment feed Circulation Readership feed Printing Production feed Ownership Regulations feed Print Data feed Financials feed Launches Closures feed Archives USA : TribLocal Quietly Blooms to 88 Hyperlocal Sites And Growing Posted by Anton Jolkovski on June 16, 2011 at 10:12 AM Tribune Company has long

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