currybetdotnet: Top 100 British newspaper feeds in Google Reader

Posted on 2 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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

FAZ.NET: Journalismus: Rule online, Britannia?

Posted on 7 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 29 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 27 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 9 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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."

Amateur Photographer: Exposed: Meerkat photo story was a ‘hoax’ news

Posted on 7 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 5 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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.

Martin Moore Blog: A pandemic of drunkenness or statistics designed to make a story?

Posted on 22 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Many of our clients" the company says candidly, "use OnePoll to trigger high impact media coverage". "Our team of national news journalists and PR experts know what the media will use".

NMA: The Sun expands mobile video services via distribution deals

Posted on 12 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

'News Group Digital, the digital arm of News International, is ramping up its portfolio of mobile video services with a raft of new distribution deals.'

The Sun Online: Maddie: Hope for Maddie parents

Posted on 9 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Channel 4 newsman Alex Thomson was rapped after claiming coverage of Maddie made him SICK."

FT.com: Murdoch turns to new page on Wapping

Posted on 6 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The Financial Times has learnt that News International is seeking huge new premises in London for its four national newspapers: The Times, The Sun, the News of the World and The Sunday Times."

PRblogger.com: TechCrunch is bigger than the Sun Online

Posted on 1 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Alexa stats (usual disclaimer apply) suggest TechCrunch gets nearly as much traffic as the Guardian. Stephen Davies "Here’s a team of three (I think) compared alongside two national titles consisting of streams of professional journalists."

mediabistro.com: Sun Correction: Yoko Ono Not A Dog Eater

Posted on 7 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Our May 30 story headed 'Uuurrgh! My Corgi kebab is a bit ruff' said that Yoko Ono was on a radio show and 'tasted' dog meat ... The report, which was filed to us by several leading press agencies was wholly wrong..."

Observer: Indian Sun could set tone for future of newspapers

Posted on 13 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Rupert Murdoch has plans to launch The Sun in India.

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