Guido Fawkes: Thieving Parasitical Journalists
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:44
"Guido always tries to credit the source of a story with a link. It is not just honest and good manners, it pays dividends in traffic terms. Here is the difference in understanding between online writers and dead tree writers. Bloggers understand that if you increase the usefulness of your site with useful links, you get more traffic. Something that the dead tree press has only just realised…"
Journalism.co.uk: Campaign against Julie Moult ’smacks of bullying’, says Mail Online
Friday, 5 September 2008, 21:46
Mail Online editorial director Martin Clarke: "We are reviewing our entire moderation policy. This is becoming more and more of an issue for us. We get more comments than we can possibly deal with and our moderation side hasn't been able to keep up."
Sour Alba: The ‘Julie Moult is an idiot’ campaign: a modern journalistic fable
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 22:43
Stewart Kirkpatrick: "Julie Moult is not alone in writing about something she does not appear to understand. For Tim Ireland himself could be accused of misunderstanding the press. He displays the common naive belief that the reporter whose name appears above a story has anything to do with the thing itself. There are many people who could be to blame."
Online Journalism Blog: Reasons not to ignore comments #2: The Daily Mail and Julie Moult
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 22:27
Paul Bradshaw puts the Julie Moult story into context: "The Bloggerheads blogger (’Manic’), frustrated by [the Daily Mail story's] inaccuracies, posted a comment on the story correcting it. Because that’s what comments are for, right? Apparently not. The comment was not published. So Manic took things up a notch."
Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 05:56
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Matt Wardman: "Anybody who thinks that any web traffic measuring process (even the “gold standard” ABCe version) can meaningfully distinguish differences between competing websites of well under 1% has not done their homework."
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 18:01
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Strangely, the IoS neglects to [barely] mention[s] the Independent's debut figure in a review of the ABCes.
Friday, 25 April 2008, 07:31
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"[H]ow many British newspapers do have a Sitemap file? The answer? Three."
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 08:50
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Martin Belam: "it seems that [Daily Mail columnist Tom Utley] drawing attention to his own [Wikipedia] article has increased the quality of it a bit. Only a bit mind, as it credits The Telegraph with an article written for the Mail."
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 06:40
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Shock angle from the Mail: "The Editor of the Daily Mail has been honoured with the first-ever lifetime achievement trophy at the British Press Awards…"
Monday, 24 March 2008, 12:23
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Nicolas Kayser-Bril had developed some interesting cartograms that visualise a content analysis of global news coverage patterns at various newspapers, including the Daily Mail, Guardian and Economist - and the blogosphere.
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 11:50
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"The Press Complaints Commission yesterday announced that Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail … will be the new chairman of the Editorial Code Committee … There are many reasons why I think this is a bad idea. Here I’ll name just 5"
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 21:56
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Stop press: 19-year-old student posts fancy dress party picture to Facebook!
Monday, 3 December 2007, 07:52
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"British media organisations are besieging the Indian market, seeking growth that is hard to find at home."
Sunday, 2 December 2007, 10:44
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Guido claims 305,624 unique visitors in November, says the Telegraph and Guardian have too many bloggers and asks whether the blogs run by Sky News and Mail Online are "commercially sensible". But Guido, the Graun and Indy claim to be profitable online…
