Independent: Stephen Glover: What Mail Online could teach its rivals
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 21:58
"Mail Online is not yet making a profit but it could be making serious money within a few years – a notion which would have seemed far-fetched only 18 months ago. The huge size of its ever-increasing audience is becoming attractive to advertiser…
Media Guardian: Facebook generates 10% of Mail Online’s UK traffic
Monday, 15 November 2010, 18:55
"Martin Clarke, the Daily Mail executive who runs Mail Online, revealed today that 10% of the website's UK traffic is generated by referrals from Facebook, a 'gigantic free marketing engine'. … Clarke also claimed Mail Online users are more engaged than the paying customers who visit thetimes.co.uk."
Media Guardian: MailOnline: what is the secret of its success?
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:09
"How did an internet-averse paper become the world's second largest English-language newspaper website (after the New York Times) so quickly? … MailOnline has chased traffic aggressively and now captures 35% of all UK newspaper online traffic, recording 446% audience growth in three years without spending anything on marketing."
Top UK news stories on Digg in 2007
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 08:15
The social bookmarking and news recommendation site Digg, which determines its front-page content by allowing its users to vote for (or “Digg”) links posted by other users, has gained a reputation for generating huge spikes in traffic to web sites that stike the Diggers’ fancy.
So what stories have the often-geeky Diggers chosen in 2007? [...]
Blog community doesn’t care for mag’s view of social workers
Monday, 17 September 2007, 16:52
Community Care has had to close a comment thread on one of its blogs after a string of nasty comments on a post attacking the Daily Mail’s coverage of social work.
The post, by the RBI magazine’s deputy editor Janet Snell, promises a story in this week’s issue that will examine how, from its point of [...]
Thursday, 12 July 2007, 15:26
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"Nigel Dempster of the Daily Mail, doyen of newspaper diarists and the man who created the modern gossip column, has died aged 65 following a long illness."
Monday, 30 April 2007, 11:33
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Martin Belham continues his series of newspaper web site reviews. He is very impressed with the Daily Mail site — although the blogs may need some work.
Sign both online petitions for Freedom of Information
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:54
More than 1.1m people have signed an petition against road tolls on the Downing Street e-petition site created by MySociety.
According to the Daily Mail, “one high-ranking member of the Government” believes whoever thought of this experiment in digital democracy was “a prat” for giving opponents of the Government a platform.
A leader in the Daily Express encourages readers to take a moment to sign other petitions on the Downing Street site. For once, I agree with “the world’s greatest newspaper”.
One Downing Street petition every journalist should sign is the one expressing opposition to the Government’s plans to amend the The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, which would make it far more difficult for journalists to use the Freedom of Information Act.
That petition was created by journalist Tom Griffin, who makes the case for signing it on his blog.
As we all know by now, the effect of the Government’s proposed changes would be to make the Freedom of Information Act far more difficult for journalists to use.
Time is also running out to express your support for the Press Gazette petition on the same subject:
We, the undersigned, urge the Government not to undermine the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by passing into law the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2007.
According to the Government’s own independent review, the proposed changes will result in more than 17,000 FoI questions a year being rejected by local, regional and national public bodies on purely financial grounds, irrespective of the public interest.
We are particularly concerned that the rule changes will, according to the independent review, have a disproportionate effect on journalists and therefore undermine the vital role they play in British democracy.
We’re not as high-tech (yet) — to support this, e-mail dontkillfoi@wilmington.co.uk with your name, job title and the organization you work for.
