Media Money: The future of newspapers: Metro with knobs on (and a hiring spree at Thomson Reuters)
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 19:35
Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously and start interacting with their readers –- properly –- might be a bit of a challenge."
PA set to launch listings data API through BBC Backstage
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 13:03
The Press Association’s events listings database is to be made available for non-commercial use by web developers and will be released through the BBC’s web developer network.
PA is releasing an API (application programming interface) of its events li…
Sunday, 13 July 2008, 07:18
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"Reuters wants all the materials to be able to study what happened. Access to the video, taken from helicopters involved in the attack, could also help improve Reuters’ safety policies in Iraq, the world’s most dangerous country for journalists."
Thomson Reuters releases new version of semantic tagging tool
Monday, 19 May 2008, 08:56
Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its semantic tagging tool Open Calais along with plugins for several blogging and content management systems.
The new version of the software, which allows web publishers to automatically add metadata indic…
Monday, 28 April 2008, 09:31
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"Staff of the new Thomson-Reuters are forbidden from using blogs for internal communications and for liaising with co-workers. The merged news agency produced a new a code of ethics late last week…"
Saturday, 8 December 2007, 12:01
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"The Splash news and picture agency dominated coverage of the missing canoe man by being the first to find his wife, Anne Darwin, and spirit her away."
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 18:11
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Germany’s DPA agency joins the online video race.
