"[F]or the second and now … third quarters of 2008, the company has reduced the rate of pay per pageview."

Peter Kirwan: "[A]nyone thinking of buying Trinity Mirror at the moment should think in terms of paying money for its digital operation — and picking up print for free as part of the deal."

"[R]eporters are effectively ‘embedded’, with all the ethical and professional considerations that that should entail. The question is, is the pressure to produce web video bringing newspapers too close to the police?"

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."

"The Irish Times will publish under its own title online from Monday morning with the launch of a new site for the newspaper, www.irishtimes.com . Access to the site will be free."

"Near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner … PBS’ Charlie Rose slipped in this little question…"

Student journalist rips Northcliffe’s (older) regional newspaper sites…

The full report is now avilable from the Medill Journalism School team studying the impact of location-based technologies on journalism.

"Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence."

"[M]ore than two out of four people in my newsroom are getting bought out or fired by the end of the summer. … No getting around this fact: It’s going to be pretty hard to produce a product that doesn’t totally suck with that kind of job-slashing. "

Bloggers from Shiny Media’s Catwalk Queen were interviewed for Panorama’s Primark story, but weren’t credited. Instead, videos were credited to YouTube.

"When we journalists talk about integration we generally mean, integrating print and online activities. But the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens."

Long-expected new site getting close…