Category Archives: Daily Telegraph

New Media Age: Interview with William Lewis, editor-in-chief and MD of digital at Telegraph Media Group

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Will Lewis: “I’ll take a handful of people with me from Victoria, but in essence want to source new talent, such as engineers, user experience professionals, product people and entrepreneurs who want to do business to create new products and services. In Euston there’ll be no editorial or advertising drive, it will be driven by the customer. So we’re looking to recruit up to 40 people externally who would like to come and play with us."

Roy Greenslade: Mystery of Will Lewis’s new digital ‘promotion’

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I suspect Greenslade commenter ZigZoomer is closest to the truth: "Lewis went to Harvard Business School. One of the standard B-school formulas for changing and revitalising an organisation is to set up a 'skunkworks' away from the main offices. ... You take some of the brightest staff, and remove them from the influence of the naysayers in the main part of the company. There they are free to come up with new ideas and ways of working that are supposed to be more successful than the old ways. "

Media Guardian: Telegraph Media Group promotes Will Lewis and Tony Gallagher

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"[Will] Lewis will set up and run the new digital division, an 'entrepreneurial unit' which will have a staff of 50 and be based in Euston, away from the company's main office in Victoria. As managing director, digital, he will also oversee TMG's existing digital businesses."

Independent: British press split in two by Wapping’s great gamble

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Great summary of the state of the paywall debate among UK national newspapers by Ian Burrell. Emily Bell of the Guardian: "This is not about newspaper publishing, this is about news, content and analysis on the internet and as long as you keep making the category error that says newspaper publishers are different you won’t make any progress."

Silicon.com: Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google

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"[Telegraph Media Group] began its transition to Google Apps in July 2008 and completed the migration in July this year. A survey of workers in October this year found that in their first six months of using Gmail about 45 per cent of staff rated it as worse or the same as using Microsoft Outlook as their mail client."

Guardian: Theyworkforyou refutes Telegraph ‘sacking’ claim re civil servant – so where’s the text?

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"[The] Telegraph is saying that someone wrote som's the text? | Technology | guardian.co.ukething on a site. Except the something that is written doesn't appear on the site, and can't be found anywhere else. That's extremely odd by anyone's standards. Of course it could have all been made so much easier if the Telegraph had included a link in its physical and web story to the offending comment. But it didn't ..."

Online Journalism Blog: Telegraph plans to expand MPs database site in build up to election (Q&A)

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Tim Rowell: "From day one, it was agreed that we would work towards the publication of an online database that contained not only the files themselves but also an aggregation of publicly available data (Parliament Parser, They Work for You, Register of Members Interests etc.) with our own unique data analysis."