Editor & Publisher: The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says
Monday, 15 March 2010, 07:12
E&P on Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2010 report: "'The shrinking top and bottom line over the last three years resulted in loss of 15,000 full-time reporting and editing jobs falling to about 40,000 wrote Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute who authored the report's newspaper chapter. "That means newsrooms have shrunk by 27% in three years,' he wrote."
The State of the News Media 2010: Audience Behavior
Monday, 15 March 2010, 07:01
"[For] this year’s State of the News Media Report. First we surveyed 2,259 American adults on landlines and cell phones about their news consumption habits … Only 21% say they tend to rely primarily on one destination; only a third even say they have a favorite news website. But these online news grazers do not range far. Most (57%) rely mostly on two-to-five websites. Only 12% use more than six."
New York Times: Online News Readers Use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study Says
Monday, 15 March 2010, 07:00
"Only 35 percent of the people who go online for news have a favorite site, and just 21 percent are more or less 'monogamous,' relying primarily on a single Internet news source, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, in a report to be released Monday by Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. But 57 percent of that audience relies on just two to five sites"
Steve Yelvington: Online separation? Newspapers have been there and done that
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 01:48
"There were many cases in which local newspapers set up internal online groups that operated independently. Several years ago, a Borrell report showed a strong correlation between that organizational form and revenue performance. But it's not as simple as that. Correlation is not causation. I would argue that the organizations that used that structure had an intent that was missing from most of the newspaper industry at that time. They simply intended for their Web operations to succeed. The rest of the industry didn't really give a rat, and it showed."
Peterborough Today: What do you think of our new website?
Saturday, 13 March 2010, 15:57
Is this the first of the redesigned Johnston Press sites? As is typical of a post introducing a redesing, there are lots of unhappy comments. Odd to have news sponsored by the local council.
Independent: Daily Mail apologises for Facebook underage sex claims
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 13:03
"The Daily Mail has today published an embarrassing apology after publishing an article claiming that a criminologist posing as a teenage girl on Facebook was inundated with contacts from men seeking sexual favours. … in today’s newspaper the Mail admits that Williams-Thomas was not using Facebook at all, but an entirely different and so far unspecified social networking site."
Google Public Policy Blog: Newspaper economics: online and offline
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 08:59
Google chief economist Hal Varian: "[The] real money in search engine advertising is in the highly commercial verticals like Shopping, Health, and Travel. Unfortunately, most of the search clicks that go to newspapers are in categories like Sports, News & Current Events, and Local, which don’t attract the biggest spending advertisers. … This isn't so surprising: the fact of the matter is that newspapers have never made much money from news. They’ve made money from the special interest sections on topics such as Automotive, Travel, Home & Garden, Food & Drink, and so on. These sections attract contextually targeted advertising, which is much more effective than non-targeted advertising. … Traditionally, the ad revenue from these special sections has been used to cross-subsidize the core news production."
News after Newspapers: iPad strategies for publishers
Monday, 8 March 2010, 19:15
"In considering their strategies for iPad, publishers should assume: Mobile will be everywhere. … All forms of media consumption will increasingly shift to mobile devices … Marketing budgets will increasingly shift to mobile …. Consumers will respond strongly to mobile pitches …. The [unbundling] genie will not go back in the bottle … "
Manchester Evening News: Locked up in February ‘10
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 23:12
This is probably as close to TampaBay.com's mugshot gallery site as British law allows: "The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month."
Press Gazette: Local Heroes 2010: The future of local news starts here
Monday, 1 March 2010, 20:57
"Kingston University and Press Gazette have teamed up to host a unique one-day conference – Local Heroes 2010 – to showcase success stories and innovation in UK local journalism. … Confirmed speakers include: Former Birmingham Post and Mail editor in chief Steve Dyson, Teesside Gazette editor Darren Thwaites, ultra local blogging pioneer William Perrin and David Parkin, founder of successful local business news website TheBusinessDesk."
One Man and His Blog: The Obligatory iPad for Publishers Post
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 22:49
Adam Tinworth, exactly right: "Here's what we should do: Look at this form factor …. Create something new, under our existing brands, for our existing markets, that feels natural and inherent to the device. … Here's what will probably happen: companies will seize on the magazine-like form factor and the 'book replication' iBooks interface to build what are, in effect, straight replications of print titles on the platform, with the sort of "interactive" extra elements that made CD-ROMs such a compelling experience back in the 90s (please note: that was sarcasm)."
Guardian Local
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 14:11
Covering Leeds, Cardiff and Edinburgh: "Guardian Local is a collaborative community journalism initiative to provide local online news and information in three cities across the UK."
FT.com: Publishers fear the bite of Apple’s revenue model
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 11:16
"Ideally, publishers hope Apple's periodicals store will operate as seamlessly as iTunes does for music, films and television shows by offering simple, one-click purchases. But Apple's history of sharing limited consumer information with partners beyond sales volume data could prove a "deal breaker" for publishers …"
jamesrb.co.uk: The London Weekly: why I’m not laughing
Monday, 15 February 2010, 15:14
"The problem with The London Weekly isn’t that the product is dire – it’s instead the gaping chasm between its hype and its reality."
