Press Gazette: Press Gazette’s guide to content management systems
Monday, 1 December 2008, 13:27
"Today, the interface between reporters, sub-editors, websites, news pages and mobile devices is so important that even in the current hellish downturn it is one of the few things that journalism organisations are spending serious money on."
ft.com new-look homepage
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:26
Welcome to a snapshot of FT.com’s new-look homepage. Please let us know what you think. Mouse over the numbers to see key features of the new design. For the live, current homepage, please visit www.ft.com
Paidcontent:UK: FT.com Relaunching This Week: Pink Front Page, New Name Target ‘Obsessive’ Users
Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:55
"it’s the behind-the-scenes tweaking currently going on at FT.com that may have the biggest impact. “At the same time we’re doing some fairly fundamental changes to our CMS,” he says and they are changes that will affect the workflows of journalists and editors around the world, mainly making content uploading faster and easier. The site will soon be installing metadata semantic tagging technology from Nstein"
Press Gazette: Financial Times in the pink with new-look website
Monday, 10 November 2008, 10:34
"The Financial Times tomorrow unveils one of the biggest changes to FT.com since the site launched in 1995. FT.com has been scrapped as a masthead - in favour "Financial Times" - giving the home page a similar look to that of the newspaper"
FT.com: Why journalism wins my vote
Sunday, 12 October 2008, 09:02
FT editor Lionel Barber on the state of newspapers in the US: "[I]t seems undeniable that 2008 – and the coverage of the presidential election – will be seen as a tipping point in American journalism. The imperial status of the mainstream media – the television networks, big metropolitan dailies and lofty commentators – has been shaken. The lay-offs of hundreds of US newspaper journalists are a symptom of a wider malaise. We are witnessing a shift in the balance of power towards new media, with wholesale repercussions for the practice of journalism."
Journalism.co.uk: FT.com ‘explodes’ with 250 per cent rise in unique users
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:08
"According to FT.com internal figures, page views on the site yesterday were up 300 per cent and unique users up 250 per cent compared to figures for the same date last year. … FT.com's figures follow a report in the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel, which claimed the BBC's business pages recorded their best ever traffic after reporting the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers."
paidContent:UK: @ GIIS: FT.com Boss: Media Should Ape Airlines, Lay Off Our Business Model
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 16:30
Rob Grimshaw: “There seems to be a prevailing view out there that there must be purity in business models on the web - that it must be all pay-for or all free - and any effort to marry the two is an offence to the purity of the web environment.”
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 13:48
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Review of the Amazon Kindle: "Print devotees will likely find Amazon’s newfangled e-reader an imperfect substitute for the old-fashioned newspaper—even if it saves trees."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:26
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"Lufthansa said it did an analysis of passenger movements in 1999 and 2000 to try to identify who on its 20-member supervisory board was regularly leaking information to [the FT Deutschland]."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:50
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Aargh. Someone beat me to the "bollocks par" gag…
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:48
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Divided by a common jargon? Peter Wilby on the FT’s term for what American journalists often call the "nut graf": "the bollocks par". "This is apparently the paragraph, high up in a news story, which is supposed to explain its significance."
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 08:53
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William Powers: "What’s interesting about the Financial Times is that, while it is pitched at rich people … and emphatically global in outlook … it doesn’t feel exclusive or superficially cosmopolitan. It feels grounded"
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 14:00
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Google News’ Josh Cohen explains how Google works effectively with publishers who have pay walls,like the The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
@DNA2008: Who is getting it in the digital age?
Monday, 3 March 2008, 11:06
At the Digital News Affairs Conference in Brussels, Richard Gizbert of Al-Jazeera’s media programme The Listening Post asks a “on surviving the digital news age” to name some organisations that are “getting it right” in the digital age.
Here are the suggestions they came up with:
Drudge Report
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