Press Gazette: Sky News Supreme Court feed ‘attracts 90,000 a day’
Monday, 5 September 2011, 15:15
"Sky News’ live video stream from the Supreme Court attracts an average 90,000 visitors a day, according to the channel’s head of news John Ryley. The figure was cited in an open letter sent by Ryley to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in which he…
Telegraph: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting
Monday, 22 August 2011, 12:03
"Sky News sources told The Daily Telegraph that the astonishing footage from the streets of Tripoli was produced using an Apple Mac Pro laptop computer connected to a mini-satellite dish that was charged by a car cigarette lighter socket."
Sky News Blogs: The Brega Bunker And How We Found It
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 12:46
"Within an hour or so of the Brega air strike report, I began to get tweets from various Libyans who follow me. They all suggested that they knew of a bunker in Brega, but didn't know where it was. One of the tweets made some mention of a Dut…
Sky News Editors’ Blog: Supreme Court Live
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:29
"Sky News has today become the first place where you can watch continuous live video coverage of the UK Supreme Court. This is a significant event because the Supreme Court is the only UK court which allows cameras at all, apart from some very res…
Sky News Editors’ Blog: Supreme Court Live
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:29
"Sky News has today become the first place where you can watch continuous live video coverage of the UK Supreme Court. This is a significant event because the Supreme Court is the only UK court which allows cameras at all, apart from some very res…
New York Times: Will James Murdoch Ride a Sky Broadcasting Deal to the Top?
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:20
"[Those] who know James Murdoch often note that he does not relish the newspaper culture the way his father does. He seems to take no delight in the company of reporters and in the sort of gossip that permeates the newspaper world and that his fat…
Strange Attractor: Sky News got the argument it wanted
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 19:37
Suw Charman-Anderson: "Ultimately, you get the community that your marketing deserves. If you market your forums as News Fight Club Online, you’re going to get exactly that. Asking people if they are ‘looking for an argument’ sets up an expectation in the user of extreme hostility, so they will react intemperately to the slightest thing."
Virtual Economics: News Corp’s paywall is about News Corp, not the Times
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 11:44
Seamus McCauley has an interesting theory: "The Times paywall … is not about directly monetising the Times but about bundling the Times with News Corp's other services, notably broadband but also TV and telephony, to decrease churn and add customers to the valuable has a very growth part of the business. … With BskyB running an ARPU of £508, if fewer than 30,000 people make the decision to move to (or stay with) Sky because they get the Times online bundled in, News Corp's paywall initiative breaks even. If 200,000 do that's the annual losses of the newspaper operation covered too."
Independent: Rupert Murdoch claims to own the ‘Sky’ in ‘Skype’
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 13:57
"BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with the internet telecommunications pioneer Skype, claiming that it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype'."
E-Media Tidbits: TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 08:35
"[Julian] March is so serious about [Tweetdeck's] value that he is making social media literacy an objective on his digital media staff's performance reviews. 'I want to see social media become a part of the fabric of the day-to-day work,' he said."
NetNative: Haiti 2.0: A case study in real time news
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 08:00
How Sky News gathered information from Haiti via Twitter, Facebook and Skype.
Journalism.co.uk: New tools for Sky journalists as social media strategy moves from one to many
Saturday, 9 January 2010, 11:49
"Sky News is installing [Tweetdeck] Twitter software across its journalists' computers, as part of plans to encourage more use of social media for newsgathering and reporting."
Techcrunch UK: Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV – Creates a Twitter Correspondent
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 17:04
Sky News memo: "The Online team is using Ruth Barnett as a “Twitter correspondent” – scouring Twitter for stories and feeding back, giving Sky News a presence in the Twittersphere."
