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."
Matt McAlister: Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 08:42
"We hosted our first Hack Day last week at The Guardian. Amazing fun. Here’s a 15min highlight reel…"
NMA: Guardian hires Andrew Bagguley to launch mobile site
Monday, 17 November 2008, 16:04
"Guardian News & Media has hired Andrew Bagguley, former head of mobile strategy for News International, to help launch its mobile site."
How-Do: Is GMG set to launch a local Guardian-branded website for Manchester? - Rumours and Conjecture
Sunday, 16 November 2008, 10:12
"Guardian Media Group appears to be researching the possibility of launching a new local website to cover the Manchester area. The site, if it comes to fruition, will be branded with the Guardian name and offer a highly focused local service looking to 'connect you with your local community.'"
MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:34
"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey - there's hope for us all."
I’ve Said Too Much: Dacre speaks truth and then bollocks
Monday, 10 November 2008, 17:18
"As any fule kno, monthly uniques are increasingly meaningless (to the extent they ever were), and I much prefer Dacre’s formulation of daily users plus time spent plus number of visits. That’s a far better measure of the amount and type of attention a newspaper is getting."
Observer: Wapping displays a lack of joined-up thinking over the internet
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 11:46
Peter Preston: "The two [online] front-runners [Guardian and Telegraph] have ploughed huge money into development and integration, bringing newsrooms and journalist teams together to mount a powerful, constantly updated service. But where's the Times in all this?"
Ethical Corporation: The Guardian and ClimateChangeCorp.com announce partnership
Saturday, 25 October 2008, 17:55
"ClimateChangeCorp.com has become the first online business news magazine to join the Guardian Environment Network – an editorial partnership that brings together the world's best environment websites. The partnership includes a content exchange agreement between the Guardian’s online environment section and ClimateChangeCorp.com."
Inside Guardian.co.uk: Upgrading our RSS feeds
Saturday, 25 October 2008, 11:07
"First, every feed across the site includes the full content for each article. We've also embedded related links pointing people to more information on the web site. … Second, advertising will soon appear within each full content feed item. Ads won't appear in the items which we display only as summaries."
Observer: Are papers in freefall? Not if they innovate
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 11:45
Peter Preston: "Sometimes, amid encircling gloom, it's wise to set benchmarks longer than a week last Friday. Always, there are choices to be made - or not made. And usually (perhaps, maybe) innovation is its own reward. A Times drop of under 20,000 in five years isn't systemic collapse. A Guardian surge online that brings in more than 23 million unique users a month on top of a million-plus print readers isn't carnage."
Press Gazette: Guardian adviser: Subscription fees not the answer
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 11:40
"The Guardian's US web strategy adviser Caroline Little has said that subscription charging is unlikely to work for online news businesses - and said the industry had still yet to find the "secret" to making the web pay its way. … Little urged news publishers to do more than repurpose print content online, and pointed to database journalism as a major growth area that was not being effectively embraced."
Inside Guardian.co.uk: guardian.co.uk goes geotagging and gets Google maps
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:57
Paul Carvill: "We have published our first article containing geolocation data! We introduced this feature in the US Elections blog pages to track our reporters as they travel with the presidential election campaigns. On those pages you can see a Google map with the points marked where our reporter wrote a blogpost. … . We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard."
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Roy Greenslade: National papers steal each other’s online copy
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 13:36
Angela Phillips in the comments: "If journalists spend their lives running after each other and simply re-angling work published elsewhere, then who is actually doing the digging and how does anyone know what the information is worth? If journalists are to maintain their position as 'experts' (which I think they need to) then they need to re-build trust and they won't do that without a much greater level of transparency about where information comes from…"
Guardian: Michael White on how to write a blog
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 21:52
"[A] blogger must be careful with facts, even bad spelling can shatter the illusion of authority. He/she must be prepared to defend every fact and opinion - or apologise. … Above all, a blogger must have a thick skin. It's tough out there, but also fun. Among the hooligans there are clever, decent people who simply want to tell you things you didn't know."
