The Next Web: Proof That Location’s Gone Mainstream: The Celebrity Stalking App
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:02
"Now [OK!] magazine’s publisher, Northern & Shell has released an iPhone app that is essentially a location-based guide to celebrity hangouts and misdemeanors. The app uses the iPhone’s location services to help you locate nearby celebrity haunts and find out which big names like to hang at them. … Users can chat to staff writers via Twitter from the app and if they spot a celebrity, they can upload a geotagged image which may end up getting used in the magazine."
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."
Press Gazette: The Wire: BBC editor: Lack of resources to keep messageboard
Saturday, 14 February 2009, 10:13
Woman's Hour editor Jill Burridge provides further evidence that user-generated content doesn't equal cheap content: "We haven’t got the resources to host a messageboard. We have limited resources now and the messageboard was taking up a disportionate amount of our time."
The Bivings Report: The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers (2008 Edition)
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 09:45
"Speaking generally, our study shows that newspapers are trying to improve their web programs and aggressively experimenting with a variety of new features. However, having actually reviewed all these newspaper websites it is hard not to be left with the impression that the sites are being improved incrementally on the margins."
kress.de: “Gießener Zeitung”: Lokaler als die Lokalzeitung erlaubt
Monday, 1 September 2008, 16:04
A free local paper in Germany, the Giessener Zeitung, is launching as a "participatory newspaper" on Wednesday. Users will be able to post their own stories on giessener-zeitung.de.
Independent: VideoJug is the anti-YouTube
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:16
Andrew Keen: "VideoJug is the anti-YouTube. Its editorial staff rejects 90 per cent of the content submitted, and includes only a small proportion (currently around 3,500 videos) of user-generated content. In contrast to videos of gurgling babies or dancing dogs, the meticulously screened content on VideoJug has real editorial value."
Sunday, 9 March 2008, 16:26
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"[There is] a whole category problem with online journalism: people with no understanding of it, and with no understanding of how useable media comes about and comes to be trusted, can airily and condescendingly claim a company "gets it" just because they
Saturday, 5 January 2008, 10:35
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Political journalists in France are leaving newspapers to launch two new web sites because they are disillusioned with the state of French press. Both sites rely on citizen journalism, but one is ad-supported and free while the other is betting on paid c
Monday, 29 October 2007, 13:18
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Scott Karp: "The reality is that ‘average people’ don’t create a lot of content — at least not the commercially viable kind. Most people are too busy."
Friday, 12 October 2007, 20:27
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"Guardian Unlimited is to roll out a major interactive film database as part of plans to ramp up its See Film Differently site."
Friday, 12 October 2007, 20:27
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"CondéNet, the interactive arm of Condé Nast, is set to overhaul the online presence of Tatler and the wider CondéNet strategy": No UGC, no news, but a restaurant guide.
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:02
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"Topix – a 25 person company that is 80 percent owned by Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy – … is now getting 60 percent of its content from user generated posts."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 10:39
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The BBC’s log of material sent to it from people inside Burma.
Sunday, 9 September 2007, 12:57
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Sir Christopher Meyer’s comments on the PCC and online video: "the PCC’s concern was with, to put it in shorthand, editorial material not user-generated content. That, basically, is how it has come out in the PressBoF guidance note of February 8."
