Independent: Recently Read on The Independent
Friday, 23 September 2011, 11:09
"Recently Read is a new social reading experience on The Independent that is part of a new class of apps that help people express who they are on Facebook. The experience is based on you and your friends’ activity on Independent.co.uk. After opt…
Journalism.co.uk: Facebook study finds Independent’s content was shared and liked 136,000 times in one month
Thursday, 18 August 2011, 08:40
"Facebook has published a report on the way the Independent uses the social network to share content. The study has found people liked or shared content from the Independent 136,000 during a 'recent' month."
Guardian: Independent writer’s admission highlights news copyright issues
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 08:12
David Banks: "[When] interviewing someone, a journalist uses skill and labour in recording quotes accurately and selecting those most appropriate for publication. So the quotes in an interview are protected by copyright. If any are to be used by a…
ReadWriteWeb: How Media Will Relate to Facebook in the Future
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 13:29
"[The Independent] announced last night that it now offers granular subscriptions by Facebook. Instead of just "Liking" the entire site and getting all its articles pushed to your Facebook newsfeed, you can now limit your Like to particu…
Independent: Like your team on Facebook for updates from The Independent
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 12:40
Nice new personalisation feature: "To receive updates on your favourite Premiership football team from The Independent on Facebook, just click on the 'like' button next to your team's name below. …"
Independent Editor’s choice Blogs: New ‘like’ features on independent.co.uk
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 11:46
Jack Riley: "W"e’ve made a big effort to refocus Independent.co.uk over the last year to take into account the new ways people are finding, consuming and reacting to the news. It’s paid off; referrals from Facebook have grown 680 per cent…
Online Journalism Blog: The Independent’s Facebook innovation
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 11:40
"The Independent newspaper has introduced a fascinating new feature on the site that allows users to follow articles by individual writers and news about specific football teams via Facebook."
The Economist: Bold newspapers: The crucible of print
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:53
"The strategies being pursued by News Corporation, the Daily Mail and General Trust and Lebedev Holdings rest on distinct assumptions about what readers want, what they will pay for, and the future of advertising. It is highly unlikely that all th…
Indepenent: Why (and how) we’re changing commenting on independent.co.uk
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 17:20
Jack Riley: "what we're trying to achieve with the new comment system is bigger than just the (admittedly excellent) [Disqus] system we're putting in place. It's about first of all letting people authenticate their commenting using systems with which they're already familiar (in Facebook's case, that's 400 million people worldwide and counting), and secondly, it's about restoring your trust in our comments section, so that some of the really great submissions we get on there rise to the top, the bad sink to the bottom, and the ugly – the spam and abuse that are an inevitable adjunct of any commenting system – don't appear at all."
Independent: A fresh start for comments on independent.co.uk
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 17:12
Indy online editor Martin King: "Websites have been encouraging cowardice. They allow users to hide behind virtual anonymity to make hasty, ill-researched and often intemperate comments … So we have changed our logins to encourage comments from individuals or even official bodies using their Facebook or Twitter accounts – with other options for Yahoo or Open ID log-ins. There is also a Disqus option, where your account must be validated through your e-mail."
Google Chrome extension gallery: The Independent
Tuesday, 20 April 2010, 10:15
"Alerts you when, and tells you how many, new articles are published on The Independent within the topics you like. Clicking on an article title opens it in a new tab."
New York Times: In Britain, a Laboratory for Newsprint’s Future
Sunday, 4 April 2010, 20:46
New York Times on Johnston Press and Times paywalls: "Britain is turning into a laboratory for the future of newspapers in the digital era."
Wired.co.uk: Why Lebedev’s Indy should go digital
Friday, 26 March 2010, 09:17
Peter Kirwan: "at the Independent … Print-based ad sales have plummeted. So going digital would incur less of a blow to revenues than previously. Meanwhile, of course, the cost of printing and distributing copies looms ever larger in relative terms. … The cost base of a digital-only Independent could shrink by half, to £30m or £40m. As for revenues, a decent digital sales operation working on behalf of a broadsheet newspaper can hope to bring in £20m-£30m a year. The online display market is returning to growth. In the not-too-distant future, a digital-only Independent could hope to break even."
Sunday Times: Ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev pays £1 for Indy
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 23:02
"Alexander Lebedev … will this week pay a token £1 to take control of The Independent — the same price as buying one copy of the paper from the newsstand. But he will pledge to invest millions in the loss-making title and the Independent on Sunday over five years."
