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.

"As newspaper readership stagnates in the US and Europe, India’s newspapers are enjoying the kind of golden age the US saw at the end of the 19th century. These prospects are luring in international groups."

"Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall … in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof. According to comScore, it gained 7.5 million readers worldwide …"

"The Economist Group is using the power of the blogosphere to build ‘buzz’ for its political stories before they are published."

The Economist’s audio edition "is revolutionary because of the way it undermines radio. … What "iPod News Radio" in this form does is make radio into a something that feels like a newspaper."

Jeff Jarvis: "I would have thrown another requirement on Project Red Stripe or any media company’s innovation incubator: that they start a sustainable — that is, profitable — business."

"Though British newspapers like The Guardian and The Times are attracting a big American following on the Internet, they have had a hard time attracting advertising from the United States, analysts say."

"Lughenjo … is … aimed at developing a web platform through which knowledge and collective intelligence from the Economist community can be used to assist development in areas of the world that have suffered from a ‘brain drain’ to the West."

"Going under the radar has allowed us to investigate a sector which is totally out of the Economist Group’s remit. … we wanted to start a not-for-profit."

Howard Kurtz on The Economist in Washignton: "the magazine is not Time or Newsweek with an Oxford accent."

The Economist’s Project Red Stripe is close to deciding what product they are going to bring to market. It will have a social network at its heart, but they are saying no more than that.

The Economist’s online news editor "goes to Mugabeland".

The Economist’s innovation team, Project Red Stripe, has narrowed its list of potential projects to a very interesting shortlist.