Malcolm Coles: Google nails Express sites over paid links
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"Google says it has 'taken action' and no longer trusts links from a major UK newspaper group..."
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Press Gazette: Daily Express iPad edition – Press Gazette tries it out
Dom Ponsford tries the Express ipad app: "The user experience is much more natural and fluid than with reading the digital version of a newspaper online using page-turning software. And the iPad screen does seem to lend itself particularly well to displaying tabloid news pages. ... It perfectly mimics, and probably even improves, on the casual browsing experience of reading a real newspaper. And obviously, unlike with a web page, the reader has the benefit of seeing properly designed newspaper pages."
MediaWeek: Desmond to launch iPad app for Express
"Richard Desmond's Daily Express is readying an Apple iPad app with an upfront cost expected to be £1.79, offering free online content as well as a subscription-based replica of the paper."
Guardian: Cancer jab fantasy closes down a debate
Ben Goldacre on the Express "Jab as deadly as the cancer" story: "The article has now gone from the Express website, and Harper has complained to the Press Complaints Commission. 'I fully support the HPV vaccines,' she says. 'I believe that in general they are safe in most women. I told the Express all of this.'"
Malcolm Coles: Express.co.uk about to redesign: sneak preview
"It doesn't seem that much better to me ... a bit like they've tried to bodge the BBC home page into their ghastly colour scheme."
Press Gazette: Press Gazette’s guide to content management systems
"Today, the interface between reporters, sub-editors, websites, news pages and mobile devices is so important that even in the current hellish downturn it is one of the few things that journalism organisations are spending serious money on."
Media Week: Mellowed Stan Myerson takes control of costs
Maybe this is why the Express web site was so keen to highlight the Media Week profile of their boss:
The group's year-on-year August ABCs were shocking, with the Daily Express down 9.5%, Sunday Express 16.9%, Daily Star 8.9% and Star on Sunday a whacking 24.3%. ... The Express modestly bills itself as '10 times better than the Mail and 10p cheaper' and 'The World's Greatest Newspaper'. But while their papers are still extremely 'cash generative', Myerson and Desmond have patently failed to replicate OK!'s win over Hello! in the battle of the Express against deadly rival the Daily Mail. ... Express Newspapers prepares to cull 80 more editorial jobs from an already threadbare team. The strategy is classic Desmond and reveals the ruthless attitude that underpins profits at Northern & Shell. Myerson says ad costs and cover price will also be looked at as newsprint, energy and transport costs soar over the next 12 months.
Daily Express: Media Week says Desmond and Myerson have recipe for profit
Stop press! Express bosses mentioned in somewhat positive media trade mag article.
NHS Choices: Behind the Headlines: No evidence chocolate ‘beats cancer’
NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is 'good for you'."
Daily Express: Fury over ‘nonsense’ BBC training scheme
"The Beeb has, we can reveal, implemented a set of workshops for programme makers to “re-learn” how to make films that stand up to strict editorial guidelines." (Eh? "Reveal"?)
TheStar.com: Brit tabs apologize to parents of missing girl
Maddy libel. A view from Canada: "Grovelling front-page apologies are nothing new to British journalism."
Greenslade: Resign! Resign! Resign! Resign! Why four editors who libelled McCanns should go
"The editors of the Daily Express and Daily Star should resign. So should the editors of the Sunday Express and Daily Star on Sunday. They won't, of course."
Daily Express: Kate and Gerry McCann: Sorry
Express apologises to the parents of Madeleine McCann: "Please note that, for legal reasons, we have disabled reader comments on this article."
currybetdotnet: Now the Daily Express RSS feeds are in Latin
Martin Belam noteices that the agency that rebuilt the Express web site seems to have left live RSS feeds carrying dummy content and pointing at their staging servers.... oops.