Financial Times: Statistics chief’s warning over misuse of figures
Friday, 9 December 2011, 10:51
“Ministers, officials and journalists need to be on their guard when misusing statistics after [Andrew Dilnot,] the new chairman of the UK Statistics Authority warned he would name and shame offenders. … Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, he cited a calcula…
Telegraph: Government ‘will take 35 years to recoup tuition fee losses’
Monday, 19 September 2011, 10:25
"Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates. … Estimates obtained after a Freedom of Information request show that the s…
Guardian Government Computing: Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:32
"The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 pdf maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail". … The decision w…
Telegraph: AV referendum: What if a general election were held today under AV?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:56
Interesting analysis on a Fusion Tables based map: "This new analysis suggests the result of the 2010 general election would have resulted in the Labour Party gaining more seats than the Conservative Party, using predictions for second and third p…
The Guardian: How live blogging has transformed journalism
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 18:19
"The reward is huge traffic spikes, hundreds of comments – so far in March, live blogs (including minute-by-minute coverage of sporting events) on guardian.co.uk account for 3.6 million unique users, 9% of the total – and the wrath of some tra…
FT.com: Telegraph plans to charge for online content
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 16:20
"A person familiar with the Telegraph’s strategy said: 'The final decision has not been made, but it will not be an impregnable paywall like the Times. It will be a metered system or, less likely, micropayments.'"
Journalism.co.uk: Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 17:21
Ed Roussel: "We are interested in recruiting, not an army, but a small number of people in interactive graphics and looking at what we can do to do a better job with video. … The three biggest challenges for us editorially in the next year will be multimedia, multi-device tablets and smart phones and social media."
FT.com: NYT broadens digital licensing push
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 11:07
"The New York Times will license its technology to develop applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad digital devices to other publishers as part of a plan to boost revenue from digital services. … Companies that have agreed to license the mobile technology include the Telegraph Media Group …"
CIO: How the Cloud Changed World’s Oldest Newspaper
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 09:11
"[The] Telegraph's experience provides evidence of how cloud computing supports IT becoming a value provider rather than a cost center."
Guardian.co.uk: Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph Media Group
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 16:25
"Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at TMG and the executive given the task of managing the company's Euston Project after Lewis's departure, is taking the same role at News International."
Observer: Will Lewis fell into the gap between Euston and Victoria
Monday, 10 May 2010, 06:40
Peter Preston on Will Lewis's departure from the Telegraph: "Can newspapers, with their business professionalism, their shareholders, unions, cost controls, structures, traditions, somehow re-invent themselves as internet entrepreneurs, finding a fresh kind of genius to set digital cash registers ringing? How do legacy giants find a freewheeling future? And, ironically, can you defend good journalism by saying farewell to a very good journalist indeed?"
Guardian: The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:49
Alan Rusbridger: "My commercial colleagues at the Guardian … can't presently see the benefits of choking off growth in return for the relatively modest sums we think we would get from universal charging for digital content. Last year we earned £25m from digital advertising – not enough to sustain the legacy print business, but not trivial. … They've done lots of modelling around at least six different pay wall proposals and they are currently unpersuaded."
paidContent:UK: Guardian.co.uk’s iPhone App Could Be A £2 Million-A-Year Business
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 23:10
"Guardian.co.uk says it’s sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app since launching in December. … Over 300,000 downloaded Telegraph.co.uk’s free, ad-supported iPhone app between its February 2009 launch and December 2009 – the company says it’s recouped 10 times it development costs."
bit.ly blog: Announcing bit.ly Pro
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 13:08
"The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. … Users and publishers benefit from the additional transparency that this private-label service provides. When you see a short URL like nyti.ms, you know the destination web site before clicking on the link. "
