The Wall Blog: How the BBC lost 60,000 Twitter followers to ITV
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"On Thursday 21 July, the BBC lost 60,000 Twitter followers when Laura Kuenssberg renamed her @BBCLauraK account to @ITVLauraK."
Category Archives: ITV
Online Journalism Blog: UK general election 2010 – online journalism is ordinary
Paul Bradshaw: "Has online journalism become ordinary? Are the approaches starting to standardise? Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election – the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation."
Press Gazette: The Wire: Roger Parry: Retrain newspaper reporters for TV
Johnston Press chairman Roger Parry: “If we retrain our local journalists to be fully competent on video and audio, they could become the base of that news pyramid for all the other organisations.”
Telegraph: ITV declares war on BBC’s local news plans
"Sources close to ITV said the broadcaster had made a confidential but strongly-worded submission to both Ofcom and the [BBC Trust] urging them to reject the director-general's proposals."
Google Maps Mania: UK Media Using Google Maps
"[ITN] have created a news map that delivers news based on the user's location. The map uses the Google Gears Geolocation API to determine the user's location and then serves up news for that region."
Wired.com: ITV Inserts Advertising Into Video Content
"The technology, developed by California firm Keystream, uses object and motion detection to find suitable spaces to display ads and other messages within video footage. The images then animate and provide a click through link if rolled over with a mouse. "
Times Online: BBC ready to help its rivals develop their programmes
"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."
Times Online: Trinity Mirror and ITV: set us free to fight Google
"With a new communications act still three years away, the rest of the media industry is watching intently. Trinity Mirror’s [Sly] Bailey said: 'Given [Google's] strengths and market-leading position, it is critical that they remain true to their corpor
eBay: Never used RTS Award on eBay, also, Slightly Unusual, Weird Stuff, Collectables
Not quite the stolen Pulitzer that was on eBay a few months ago, but and RTS award is nice, too.
Times Online: Google in search to sell its advertising to newspapers
Google Print Ads are coming to the UK, and the search company is "in talks with several newspapers", the Sunday Times suggests.
Mail on Sunday: Grade rakes it in as investors lose
"Michael Grade, the executive chairman of ITV, is set to receive a massive bonus of threequarters of his salary this year even though investors have seen the value of their shares in the company plunge by a fifth since he was appointed."
@Society of Editors: Information Commissioner: Private broadcasters could come under FOI
The Information Commissioner has acknowledged that his budget for enforcing the Freedom of Information Act “drop in the ocean”, and suggested that and suggested that private broadcasting companies might be considered for inclusion in the list of bodies that must respond to FOI requests.
“I am really really struggling at the moment,” Thomas said. He described [...]
Culture Secretary James Purnell has been asked to step in to stop the planned merger of ITV’s newsrooms in the East and West Midlands.Loughborough MP Andy Reed is writing to…
Culture Secretary James Purnell has been asked to step in to stop the planned merger of ITV's newsrooms in the East and West Midlands.
Times Online: ITV ad revenue up as companies scrum for Rugby World Cup slots
ITV1 ad revenues are up by an estimated 4 per cent to 5 per cent in September. All 48 Rugby World Cup games are being shown live on ITV, with 26 on ITV1. ITV paid £40m for the exclusive UK rights to the 2003 and 2007 tournaments.