paidContent:UK: Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year
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"The Association of Online Publishers ... has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010."
Category Archives: Daily Mail
Journalism.co.uk: Daily Mail faces legal challenge from Facebook over child safety article
"The Daily Mail could face legal action from Facebook, after wrongly naming the social networking site in an article about child safety online. ... Facebook's departments had worked together to collect evidence proving that Facebook could not be the social network described in the piece and presented this to the Mail, she added. Facebook had also tried to post an official comment on the story five times, but these had not been published and the social network is asking for an explanation of this from the Mail, said Silver."
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Quiche tale goes national after agency intervenes
How aggregation works in traditional media: "The Leamington Observer story about 24-year-old Christine Cuddihy being forced to show her driving licence to staff at her local Tesco languished almost unnoticed on its website for almost a week. However after an agency repackaged the story after tracking down the woman involved, it quickly became national headline news."
paidContent:UK: DMGT Planning 15 iPhone Apps In 2010, But Why Do Newspapers Love iTunes?
Patrick Smith: "why are news publishers—everyone from Reuters ... to the Daily Star—so keen on smartphone users downloading bits of software when there’s a perfectly good internet out there that displays everyone’s content available to everyone?"
Observer: Aghast Mail bemoans birth of ‘European superstate’
Peter Preston: "[Stephen Glover] could go on now to inquire whether it's really good enough for poor editor Paul Dacre to cover an all-powerful superstate via its political staff in SW1. And, to be frank, because nobody bar the FT quite escapes the blight of shrunk or shrinking EU coverage, similar logic closes over all Fleet Street like a vice."
Press Complaints Commission: Adjudicated – Iain Dale v Daily Mail
PCC shock: "Mr Iain Dale of Kent complained to the Press Complaints Commission that an item in the Ephraim Hardcastle diary column, published in the Daily Mail on 30 September 2009, contained discriminatory references to his sexual orientation in breach of Clause 12 (Discrimination) of the Code of Practice. The complaint was not upheld."
NMA: Mail Online traffic up by 21% following Moir column controversy
"Mail Online saw a 21% daily increase in traffic on Friday after a post by its columnist Jan Moir prompted a backlash across the web."
currybetdotnet: Has Jan Moir hastened reform of how the PCC handles 3rd party complaints?
Martin Belam: "The events surrounding Jan Moir's article may seem like some karmic comeuppance for the Mail. It was the paper that led the campaign that saw 2 complaints about Russell Brand from people who had listened to his show swell to tens of thousands, mostly made by people who had read about it."
Press Gazette: Martin Clarke: Mail Online success not just down to showbiz
"[Martin] Clarke said the idea that unique users were just counted on a monthly basis was 'absurd'. ... He called for other media organisations publish daily UK daily page impression data, as Mail Online does, as this was a key statistic for advertisers."
Kill or cure?
"Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it. " My favourite: bubble bath causes cancer. (via Ben Goldacre)
Mail Online: Plans revealed to bulldoze Central Park to make way for airport on New York’s Manhattan Island
Don't let the headline fool you. Paragraph 3: "Although the project and the Manhattan Airport Foundation are both a hoax (the company is registered anonymously and has offices on a non-existent 58th floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building, which only has 57 floors) it has been convincing enough to fool even the Huffington Post, which published details of the satirical plan earlier this week."
FT.com: DMGT considers charging for online content
“The more specialised the information is . . . the more likely to you are to be able to charge for it,” said [DMGT chief exec Martin] Morgan. But he warned that it would be “challenging” to charge for general news in the UK because of free competition from the BBC."
NMA: The Mail, Mirror and Future to keep online content free
"Mail Online, Trinity Mirror and Future Publishing have said they will remain subscription-free, despite news that The Independent and Times Online may charge for content."
paidContent:UK: Daily Mail Keen On Kindle, In Both US And UK
"Does the Daily Mail know something we don’t? Mail Online MD James Bromley tells NMA he’s talking with Amazon to launch the British paper on to the US-only device “and the UK version” “in the near future”. What “UK version”? Despite Kindle 2.0 having been unveiled in America, there’s still no public commitment from Amazon to launching either version in Europe"