More job cuts have been announced at newspapers across the U.S., adding to the news that USA Today and the Washington Times plan to cut staff.
The Miami Herald plans to cut 24 positions across its company, including six in the [...]
More job cuts have been announced at newspapers across the U.S., adding to the news that USA Today and the Washington Times plan to cut staff.
Hearst Corp. have been particularly secretive about their plans in the e-reading domain, but last Friday the public were given a little glimpse into the upcoming launch of 'Skiff', its e-reader device/service. 
At the International Association of Sports Newspapers workshop last week, editors spoke about the way that multimedia news has affected their newsrooms, and how they hope to make more money online. The workshop was held at the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India. 
MediaGuardian has run a story chronicling some successful paywall schemes that organizations toying with the idea best pay attention to. 
The Pulitzer Prize is once again updating its criteria to fit with the changing face of news reportage. The Pulitzer Board had changed the criteria last year to allow entries from non-print newsrooms as long as they were "primarily dedicated to original news reporting" [...]
The Huffington Post Los Angeles local news site has gone live, a year after HuffPo's Chicago local site and its NYC site that was launched this summer. 
Shoma Chaudhury, executive editor and co-founder of Tehelka, strongly criticised the state of the media in India in an extremely powerful speech at the 16th World Editors Forum. She was speaking on a panel on investigative journalism that included the [...] 
Media consultancy group Oliver and Ohlbaum interviewed (not just polled) 2,600 UK adults in early November and concluded that paywalls alone would not improve newspapers finances, but a mixed strategy of micropayments and subscriptions would be necessary. 
A group of female editors and media experts from India, Sri Lanka, Russia and South Africa discussed the issue of whether more women editors-in-chief would generate more readers at the 16th World Editors Forum. 
More comment on online paywalls today, with the Guardian offering examples of websites that charge for content successfully.
Is investigative journalism giving up on newspapers? "No!," stressed Aroon Purie, the founding chairman and editor-in-chief of the India Today Group.
Arun Jethmalani, CEO of ValueNotes, a research company that carries out many media projects, discussed the value of outsourcing in the media at the 16th World Editors Forum. Outsourcing is by no means new to the newspaper industry: in fact, newspapers have used freelancers for [...] 
Stella Dawson, Reuters global editor for Treasury, told the World Editors Forum about how Reuters both provides newspapers with outsourcing solutions and runs its own off-shore operation. 
"Absolutely essential" is how Tony Joseph, CEO and co-founder of Mindworks Global Media describes the need for editorial outsourcing.
Joseph, who spoke today during the first session of the World Editors Forum, illustrated the necessity for outsourcing and described its ability to alter cost-structure. Joseph believes outsourcing [...]
Frederic Filloux, editor at Schibsted International, emphasized at the 16th World Editors Forum that journalists should be thinking long term and learn to promote themselves by selling their content with multimedia, blogs and other websites.
A UK managing editor says outsourcing should not replace editorial staff, but it can be extremely helpful if correctly managed. 
Clay Shirky, journalism intellectual extraordinaire, was interviewed at Yale University for a conference on The New News Ecology: "Who will pay for the messenger?" by Leonard Witt for Sustainable Journalism. 
USA Today will cut 26 newsroom jobs, reducing its newsroom staff by 5%, under cutbacks announced by newspaper publisher Gannett Co. yesterday.
Twitter is changing the way almost every form of business is conducted. As reported by Media Guardian, its newest conquest is local
tourism and town information. Darlington, a town in north-eastern England, has just announced the hiring of a Twitterer-in-Residence.
Mike McTimoney, a schoolteacher, will use [...]
Greenspun Media, parent of the Las Vegas Sun, has begun merging their print and online assets in the Las Vegas area. 
Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica and former Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has given his take on the future of journalism in the digital age.
Walter de Mattos, editor-in-chief of Brazilian sports daily LANCE!, described to the World Editors Forum the different areas in which his paper operates and how the paper is tackling changes in the country's digital landscape. 
The Associated Press and ImpreMedia have announced that they will team up to deliver Spanish-language content over mobile devices through AP's multimedia news portal, AP Mobile.
Olivier Creiche, CEO for Six Apart, a company that provides low cost, easy-to-use media platforms such as Movable Type, spoke this afternoon during the second session of the World Editors Forum. 
Roman Gallo, director of media strategies, PPF, explained how his hyperlocal weekly papers, websites, and newsroom cafes have directly affected the monetization of media content.
Oliwia Serdeczny, director for international partnerships at Niiu, presented her company's product: an individualized newspaper that readers can personalize using articles from many local, national and international newspapers. 
An Indian digital journalist says the media divide in India is being bridged.
An entrepreneurial journalist is advocating independent media as traditional media jobs decrease.During the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress, the founder of paidContent.org, Rafat Ali, said bloggers are not "poolside" entrepreneurs but actually put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their work.
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Francisco Amaral and Inaki Palacios Osambela of Cases i Associats gave participants at the 16th World Editors Forum details of their study into how to monetise online content. In essence, their message was that rather than looking at directly charging customers, media outlets [...] 
A UK Tabloid is not focusing on search engine optimization for their Web site but rather on human interests.
In preparation of its spin-off from Time Warner, AOL has put the final pieces in place for its innovative news creation and searching system. 
On November 27th color electronic paper and quasi-flexible black and white e-paper made its French debut from Tebaldo, a trend observer and high-tech company, AFP's MediaWatch reports. 
The newspaper world is slowly becoming more and more digitalized, but one section of the newspaper that most publishers neglect when going digital is that of the obituaries.
In an iconic scene, Mahfuz Anam gave the World Editor's Forum attendees a persuasive, passionate speech illuminating the errors of newspapers and the keys to turning it around.
Paul Johnson, deputy editor-in-chief of The Guardian, shared some examples of in-depth, investigative stories the
paper recently published that drew resources from social networking
sites and eyewitness reports while speaking at the World Editors Forum Panel: "Future of Journalism vs. Future of the Newspaper.
The final holdout labour union of The Boston Globe has approved changes to its labour contract similar to those that it rejected this past June while its parent company, New York Times Co., was threatening to sell or shut down the paper, reports Editor [...] 
The newspaper business model is powerless to compensate for falling
print ad revenues, and the problem is not going to go away. The print
model cannot and will not migrate to the Internet, where there is a
"revenue black hole," in which 76 percent of all online revenues go to
Google [...] 
Three months ago, the Times of India launched a new weekend edition of its publication called the Times of India Crest.
The Financial Times is looking into accusations that advertisers have paid for articles to be written as editorial in its business specialist magazine publishing division, the Guardian is reporting. 
The opening day of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress brought three roundtable discussions and unexpected crowds to Hyderabad, India, on 30 November.
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find' [...]
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find [...]
Ahmed Benchemsi, publisher of Tel Quel, Morocco, has had many lawsuits filed against him.
One lawsuit involved a cover story about how drugs reflect sociology, religion, sex, and money.
Kotaro Akiyama, president of Asahi Shimbun, Japan's second-largest newspaper, reassured the Financial Times that Japanese newspapers are sitting pretty and will not experience a decline like their European and North American counterparts. 
Irina Samokhina (Russia), CEO of Krestyanin, described state run newspapers as 'monopolist' in Russia and discussed tensions between the media and the Russian government during the Press Freedom Roundtable.
While speaking at the Free Press Roundtable at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, Joze Ruben Zamora, publisher of El Periodico, Guatemala, detailed his battle against the oppression of free speech in his country.
Guatemala has a long history of violence, including [...]
As the London Evening Standard settles into its decision to drop its 50 pence cover price and go free, the Guardian is reporting that yet another freesheet is expected to hit the streets of London. Just a week after launching, The Detroit Daily Press has halted publishing until after the New Year.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Daily Press states, "Due to circimstances [sic] beyond our control, lack of advertising, lateness of our press runs and lack of distribution and sales, we find it" [...]
Stephen Nilan, vice-president of marketing for Digital Technology
International Ltd., registers for the World Newspaper Congress shortly
after the 12:00 p.m. start.
Over the next few days, the Editors Weblog will be providing extensive coverage of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum, working with our sister publications, the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper blog and the dedicated WAN-IFRA multimedia [...] 
The registration for the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum began at noon Monday.To ease registration traffic, conference badges were sent to the hotels of participants if the hotel was known, said Poland native and information director, Anna Kwawczyk.
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Metro.co.uk has just launched a complete redesign of its web site.The Beta version, which went live yesterday, includes many changes with a focus "on improving navigation, channel and article templates and the site's overall aesthetics which we believe is an improvement on the present offering" [...]
Telegraph Media Group announced the appointment of William Lewis to Managing Director Digital in a press release yesterday.
Sorry Rupert, but there's "not a cat in hell's chance" of making charging for general news content on the internet work, according to Stevie Spring, the chief executive of publishing group Future. 
Irish Times editor, Geraldine Kennedy has said that the freedom of the press 'depends on responsibility, protection of sources, and a newspaper's financial security,' accusing the Internet of posing a "huge threat" to the latter. 
In a public poll conducted by One News Page, 89% of respondents said that the proposed News Corp partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine for exclusive news access was a good idea, or 'a winner' in the words of the poll.
Irish Times editor, Geraldine Kennedy and a Times journalist, Colm Kenna, have been forced to pay a legal bill amounting to 600,000€ between them, despite winning a case in which they were defending their right to refuse to reveal sources. 
In a bit of encouraging media news, Daily Mail & General Trust has beaten profit forecasts and the recession to record an overall 23% fall in profit from October 4th 2008.
The London Evening Standard will cut its midday News Extra edition in order to focus on improving the currency and quality of its evening edition, the Guardian is reporting. 
Johnston Press, the second largest newspaper owner (measured by weekly circulation) in Britain, has announced it will trial paywalls at six of the company's websites as of Monday in order to test the consumer reaction to charging online, reports Press Gazette. 
The Newspapers Society has launched Locally Connected, 'the
UK's first integrated print and online audience currency,' that measures
combined print and online newspaper audience, according to a NS press release.
The East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona, which has previously announced it would shut down on 31 December, has received a letter of intent to purchase the troubled paper from a Tuscon newspaper publisher. 
Wikipedia has been loosing editors at an alarming rate in recent months, reports the Wall Street Journal. In the first three months of this present year, Wikipedia lost 49 000 English-language editors, as compared to the 4 900 they lost during the same time frame [...] 
The Chicago News Cooperative is a startup news organization
serving the local Chicago area as an internet-based nonprofit news service.
