BBC denies ?radical? overhaul of websites

What’s the difference between a refresh and a re-launch? We’ll leave that for the Guardian and the BBC to fight out… The Guardian today reported that a ‘radical redesign’ and re-launch of BBC websites is planned for March 2010, with a focus on social media – according to the paper’s sources. Among the changes outlined were a [...]

Trinity Mirror update: One weekly could be rescued at TM North West and Wales, while exec share row rumbles on

Two updates on Trinity Mirror stories to report: The Whitchurch Herald could be saved despite last week’s announcement that it would be one of three weeklies in the North West and Wales division to close – if a buyer is found. ‘It has been postponed to enable owners Trinity Mirror North West and Wales to consider [...]

Small victory for Heather Brooke in ongoing fight for transparency

Earlier this month we reported how a submission by the investigative journalist Heather Brooke was among 67 statements being questioned by lawyers for the Committee on Standards in Public Life inquiry into the MPs’ expenses scandal. Hearings were held in public for the investigation into MPs’ allowances but the standing committee, chaired by Sir Christopher Kelly, [...]

TimesOnline: Daily Mail halves its advertising decline rate

“Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) said yesterday that it had halved the rate of decline in advertising revenue at its flagship national newspaper in September, a fillip that suggests the industry could start to recover in the new year,” reports the Times. Full post at this link… Similar Posts: Media Week: Associated Northcliffe Digital to handle online [...]

Reportr.net: Online News Association needs to be more global

The US-based Online News Association needs to be more global, writes Alfred Hermida, professor of journalism at the University of British Columbia, before setting off to its annual conference. “One major issue is the dominance of US panelists. While many of these have much to contribute, the ONA is doing its members a disservice by not [...]

Malcolm Coles: ?Cervical cancer jab reports show the newspapers have learned nothing from MMR?

The UK media have learned nothing from the debacle over the MMR vaccine, argues internet and media consultant Malcolm Coles on his blog. “They are continuing their habit of undermining public-health initiatives with their latest scare story about the safety of the cervical cancer jab, after the tragic death of a schoolgirl who had the vaccine [...]

Kristine Lowe: Iceland?s ?most hated man? appointed newspaper editor

The news is now a few days old, but Kristine Lowe’s blog post on the appointment of Davíd Oddsson – Iceland’s longest serving prime minister and former head of the Central Bank – as editor of daily paper Morgunbladid, is worth a read. Not least for her photograph showing how Icelandic protesters felt about Oddsson [...]

Newsweek?s Daniel Lyons: ?Don?t bail out newspapers ? let them die and get out of the way?

Daniel Lyons, senior editor and columnist at Newsweek, argues on his Techtonic Shifts blog that US bailout plans for newspapers, such as a proposed ‘Newspaper Revitalisation Act,’ are pointless and stupid: “All this hysteria has nothing to do with saving the news, or saving jobs. Nor is it about saving democracy, which is what the red-in-the-face [...]

Sun says it?s Tories wot should win it

The Sun is ‘praying’ for the Tory leadership today, winning lots of coverage overnight for Britain’s highest selling daily newspaper. If you somehow managed to miss it, it reckons ‘Labour’s Lost It’. Once again, in true lightbulb /  ‘wot won it‘ style, it proclaims its political influence: “At the 2005 election, we and our readers believed Labour [...]

#FollowJourn: @steve_nicholls/multimedia editor

#FollowJourn: Steve Nicholls Who? Multimedia editor, Birmingham Post. What? He previously worked as multimedia editor for Trinity Mirror Midlands and BPM Media (Midlands). Where? @steve_nicholls and http://www.birminghampost.net/ Contact? steve.nicholls [ at] birminghampost.net Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips every day, we’re recommending journalists to follow online too. They might be from any sector of [...]

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Chinese media clamouring for attention but the West is not interested

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MTC09: Moritz Wuttke ? Don?t rely on Google and develop your own AdSense

Publishers shouldn’t automatically give over everything to Google, said Moritz Wuttke, founder of NextMediaInitiatives, based in Switzerland and China, at a WAN-IFRA industry gathering today. Wuttke, who advises media and advertising companies how to earn revenue online, suggested that newspaper publishers make advertisers work far too hard when it comes to buying adverts. It should be [...]

#FollowJourn: @NeilDurham/deputy editor

#FollowJourn: Neil Durham Who? Deputy editor of GP and Independent Nurse What? Currently deputy editor of  GP, a weekly newspaper for UK family doctors and Independent Nurse, a leading magazine for primary care and community nurses which is published twice a month. Both are publications of Haymarket Medical Media. Where? @NeilDurham on Twitter. Contact? neil.durham [at] haymarket.com Just as we [...]

The Jobless Journalist: Week five ? Temporarily re-employed

This is the fifth post in a series from an anonymous UK-based journalist recently made redundant. To follow the series, you can subscribe to this feed. Six weeks after being made redundant from a staff post on a consumer magazine I?ve managed to secure some online shifts at a national newspaper. I don?t consider myself permanently employed [...]