Nieman Journalism Lab: The Newsonomics of Google Grouponomics
Monday, 6 December 2010, 14:16
Ken Doctor on Groupon: "the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local."
paidContent:UK: Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity
Monday, 6 December 2010, 14:06
Robert Andrews: "Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers … Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. "
ReadWriteWeb: Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 10:53
"Facebook's location service 'Places' is speeding towards an imminent launch … Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued … that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism."
psmith, journalist: Link to the past: why do journalists still not link to each other?
Thursday, 5 August 2010, 10:15
"Content management systems in some newsrooms make such a simple thing a Big Deal, something only one or two people in the organisation can do…. But for the national newspapers and magazines, in the majortiy of cases they have no such excuse and the fact is that many simply choose not to send readers elsewhere. We’re the best, our readers love us, why would anyone go anywhere else?"
Marc Reeves: Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI
Monday, 7 June 2010, 10:29
"I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. … Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days … but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base."
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Newspaper Society calls for cap on BBC story count
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 13:40
"The Newspaper Society is calling for a strict cap on the number of stories the BBC can carry on its local websites as part of a bid to stop the corporation competing with the local press."
Press Gazette: New look for Northcliffe’s This is websites
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 11:29
"Northcliffe Digital is in the process of revamping its 'This is' websites over the coming two weeks."
paidContent:UK: Johnston’s Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 17:00
Robert Andrews: "the conclusion is clear – charging for local news online is something of a no-go. We don’t know how successful the registration or other elements of the trial were; Johnston is keeping results in-house."
Press Gazette: Johnston Press halts paywall experiment
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 12:02
"Press Gazette understands the trial, which was originally due to run for three months, is set to come to an end next week – however two of the weeklies involved appear to have already removed digital barriers."
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Johnston Press paywall experiment quietly dropped
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 11:53
"Regional publisher Johnston Press is quietly dropping its experiment in introducing paywalls to some of its local newspaper websites. … The company has told HTFP it will be making no public comment about the trial and has even refused to confirm that it is coming to an end. "
Peterborough Today: What do you think of our new website?
Saturday, 13 March 2010, 15:57
Is this the first of the redesigned Johnston Press sites? As is typical of a post introducing a redesing, there are lots of unhappy comments. Odd to have news sponsored by the local council.
Manchester Evening News: Locked up in February ’10
Sunday, 7 March 2010, 23:12
This is probably as close to TampaBay.com's mugshot gallery site as British law allows: "The MEN is naming and shaming criminals convicted of serious offences during February. We will be publishing an online gallery of offenders who have been convicted and jailed at courts around Greater Manchester throughout the month."
Leeds | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 14:10
Interesting: Guardian local blog site for Leeds, with integrated MySociety and Openly Local functionality, plus Google Maps, local Delicious links and a Leeds-filtered panel for the Guardian's dating site.
Guardian: Guardian Media Group sells regional business to Trinity Mirror
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 11:39
"The deal is worth £44.8m to Guardian Media Group, with £7.4m in cash and Trinity Mirror releasing GMG from a £37.4m print contract. … Its Greater Manchester TV station, Channel M, and the local newspapers in Woking are not included in the deal."
