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The big questions for the Scottish media in 2008
The Sunday Herald yesterday took a look at the issues that will be facing the Scottish media in 2008:
What will News International’s pricing strategy be under James Murdoch? Will the price war that saw the Scottish Sun sold at 20p continue?
How will the Scottish Executive’s plans to launch a jobs portal affect newspapers’ recruitment revenue?
What [...]
Independent on Sunday: Murdoch jnr’s News Corp graduation signals new era for ‘Times’ and ‘Sun’
"Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, including the News of the World, The Times and The Sun, are expected to accelerate their push into online journalism under the media mogul's 34-year-old son, James."
Independent: Mike Anderson – In the court of ‘The Sun’ king
"I think we are the only newspaper that overtly markets itself as paper, online and mobile. It's the combination of those three things which is the really important result. We do not look in isolation around newspaper circulation; that's just one element.
@Beyond the Printed Word: MySun moderators tested on 152-page policy
Danny Dagan, head of online communities at News Group Digital which runs MySun and provides moderation for the News of the World and thelondonpaper.
The Sun and its sister titles take a very strict line on moderating content submitted to their sites, its approach is that contributing under the tabloids’ brands is very different than blogging [...]
currybetdotnet: Top 100 British newspaper feeds in Google Reader
In the absense of better metrics, Martin Belam has created an Google Reader readership league table for national newspapers' RSS feeds. The Guardian's latest news comes top, with 49,448 subscribers to its 'UK latest' feed
Tits and RSS
Some notes on the redtop web. Those in more conservative newsrooms might not consider the following links safe for work.
Martin Belam has noticed that the Daily Star web site has a um, unique way of promoting its RSS feeds: use a picture of a half-naked model clutching the familar orange icon.
The Sun, meanwhile is using [...]
FAZ.NET: Journalismus: Rule online, Britannia?
Fleet Street's overseas readership online is putting British national newspapers on course for "journalistic world domination", says Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a story rounding up last week's AOP conference. Times editor Robert Thomson says: "our content causes echos around the world".
Times Online: How to win web readers and influence people
Dan Sabbagh's media column covers some Google's Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge's effect on Mail Online's traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.
New Statesman: The Sun comes out in Bournemouth
"Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?"
Peter Preston: Cut the puns, not the price. It might just work
"Remember that half the capital's population come from overseas now ... You might as well rename the News of the World the Punday Times. It's a dated, dowdy exercise in mass incomprehension."
Sambrook: transparency and humility essential to trust in journalists (audio)
“Arrogance” was a major part of how the BBC “tripped up” in reporting the story that led to the Hutton inquiry, and journalists should show greater humility and transparency, the BBC’s director of global news, Richard Sambrook, has said.
Sambrook made the comment last night while interviewing Web 2.0 critic and Cult of the Amateur author [...]
Amateur Photographer: Exposed: Meerkat photo story was a ‘hoax’ news
"Amateur Photographer magazine can exclusively reveal that today's national newspaper stories, claiming a meerkat took photographs at Longleat Safari Park, were based on a hoax. "
AOP: AOP Awards shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2007. Trinity Mirror gets four nominations for the Evening Gazette in Teesside. MySun and MyTelegraph both nominated.