The Drum: Newsquest (Herald & Evening Times) to introduce online subscription model
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:41
"Newsquest (Herald & Times) will take a ‘quality over quantity’ approach as it moves away from targeting unique users and build on a returning online audience. … a subscription platform is expected to be introduced across online content …
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
Grey Cardigan: Extract from the November column
Monday, 29 November 2010, 11:55
Grey Cardigan applauds Greater Manchester Police's Twitter incident feed but asks the correct question of chief constable Peter Fahy: "Why not set up a permanent, 24-hour feed of police activity to the Oldham-based Manchester Evening News and its remaining associated weeklies? Then you might not have to stage a publicity stunt the next time the government casts a stern eye over your finances."
paidContent:UK: Hyperlocal Hopes May Be Blunted By Revenue Realities In 2010
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 09:24
"[If] you’re going to ask Newsquest to hear your hyperlocal partnership proposition, you better have a good proposition. The company’s digital managing director Roger Green spoke with refreshing honesty by saying he’s sick of upstart local businesses—or “zero-revenue publishers” as he calls them—looking for a free ride from the Gannett-owned publisher’s commercial mass."
HTFP: Court ruling ‘clarifies law on user-generated content’
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 08:50
"As soon as Newsquest received the legal claim from Mr Karim, the readers' comments were removed from the websites concerned. Mr Justice Eady concluded that Newsquest websites were acting as hosts of the reader comments for the purposes of Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and therefore would not be liable for any damages even if the material was unlawful."
Jon Slattery: Black day in British newspaper history
Friday, 28 November 2008, 09:01
"I covered the newspaper industry for 23 years at Press Gazette and in all that time I don't remember anything remotely as bad as this."
Guardian: ‘With the staff we’ve got, we do the best we can’
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:36
Media Guardian visits the Leigh Journal, a local Newsquest weekly which is down to two staff: "When Hulme and Gomm discuss their professional pasts, they sound wistful. The job of putting the paper out means they haven't got the time to directly report on court proceedings and council meetings, or cultivate off-the-record sources. In more callow hands, their paper would surely have tumbled into the kind of hacked-out "churnalism" decried in Nick Davies's book Flat Earth News – but as they see it, what saves them is the spiderweb of sources amassed during their working lives. … "
Gannett Blog: Econ 101: To preserve Gannett Blog after Dec. 31, I begin testing journalism’s new business model
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 07:01
Jim Hopkins: "I'm now starting the time clock on an experiment illustrating the brutal economics of online journalism. Based on the long odds, I'll probably fail — pushing Gannett Blog closer to its demise, and showing on a micro level why Gannett's survival is so threatened. I'm looking for ways to earn about $24,000 a year from several sources to supplement my income, now that USA Today's severance checks are ending. A logical place to start: this blog…"
Gannett Blog: Econ 101: To preserve Gannett Blog after Dec. 31, I begin testing journalism’s new business model
Tuesday, 14 October 2008, 07:01
Jim Hopkins: "I'm now starting the time clock on an experiment illustrating the brutal economics of online journalism. Based on the long odds, I'll probably fail — pushing Gannett Blog closer to its demise, and showing on a micro level why Gannett's survival is so threatened. I'm looking for ways to earn about $24,000 a year from several sources to supplement my income, now that USA Today's severance checks are ending. A logical place to start: this blog…"
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
American Journalism Review: Handheld Headlines
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 23:28
"James Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, says that news companies are positioning themselves with mobile offerings because they anticipate audience growth in the next few years."
Gannett Blog: Young journalist’s view: Corporate got in the way
Saturday, 26 July 2008, 20:40
Ex-Indy.com innovation/development manger Braden Nicholson on why he left: "Rather than working hard because I loved what we were doing (which I did), I started working hard to spite Corporate."
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 07:10
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Newsquest rolls out new regional newspaper websites and now requires registration for its sites’ famously, er, robust comments sections.
Friday, 21 March 2008, 13:02
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"With the exception of Johnston Press, most of the big newspaper shares – on both sides of the pond – have actually outperformed Google over the past three months."
