NMA: The Independent launches live blogging platform
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 08:50
"The Independent has gone live with a blogging platform to encourage comment and opinion from its journalists and users. Independent Minds will feature blogs from established Independent journalists … "
PRNewswire: Independent News and Media Chooses Nstein to Semantically Tag All Assets and Drive Online Revenues
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 21:44
"Independent News and Media (UK) Ltd has selected Nstein's Text Mining Engine (TME) solution to semantically tag and organize its vast library of media assets."
Sunday Business Post: INM to cut London Independent staff by up to 40 per cent
Sunday, 2 November 2008, 19:13
"Independent News & Media (INM) is targeting a 40 per cent cut in the workforce at its British Independent and Independent on Sunday newspaper titles as part of a plan to share production and back-up services with other newspapers…"
Observer: Mail considers bid for Independent
Sunday, 2 November 2008, 13:52
"Daily Mail owner Daily Mail and General Trust is believed to be considering a bid for the Independent and its Sunday sister title, part of Independent News & Media. It is unclear whether discussions between the two companies have taken place, or if a deal will be struck, but industry sources claim the titles could be off-loaded for £1, with DMGT taking on the loss-making papers' liabilities."
Belfast Telegraph: Northern Ireland Crime Map
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 20:03
Mapping criminal activity by ward from NISRA Statistics.
Hubdub: Hubdub partners with national UK newspaper
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 15:58
"We are pleased to announce our new partnership with the … Independent…"
Shakeup Media: A reading of the new-look Independent
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 21:49
Richard Addis: "Like the post-modern in art, architecture, literature, film etcetera the new Independent makes sense as an exclusively self-referential commentary - its core implication is that newspaper creativity is used up, so it recycles and quotes its own tradition."
FT.com: Simon Kelner navigates choppy waters
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:09
Kelner: “Things are not good at the moment, although it’s not as bad as the regional press, which is in a desperate, desperate state. We own the Belfast Telegraph, which is having a tough time at the moment.”
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.
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 11:12
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"Restaurants run by some of Britain’s largest food chains are failing to meet basic legal hygiene standards … The Independent analysed the star rating of 1,270 outlets run by 10 of Britain’s best-known restaurant chains."
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 12:54
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Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 15:18
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Robin Goad: "[T]he real change has been the amount of traffic that the paper receives from search engines. … the key to the Independent’s success seems to be more effective organic search engine optimisation (SEO)."
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 23:19
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World Press Freedom Day at the Frontline Club. Motion: "New Media Is Killing Journalism". The speakers, according to an ad in The Journalist include: Andrew Keen, Simon Kelner, Nick Davies.
