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“The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent year over year during the third quarter, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales.”
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“Newspapers are in a lot less trouble than the money men seem to think.”
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“Of Britain’s web population of 26 million it found that 15% kept a blog. Of those running a personal website, almost one in five were blogging at least once a day”
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“I was looking to draw up a list of ten essential books on online journalism – but it seems to me that there are really only six. Have I missed something? Let me know.”
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“A series of programmes examines the influence of the internet and changing technologies on the British newspaper industry. How are newspapers adapting and what influence will the national and local publications retain?”
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“The planned geotagging-based relaunch at Archant’s stable of regional newspapers will not go ahead for several months, the according the Norwich-based group’s development director.”
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“The newspaper division at Gannett saw online revenue growth of 11 percent in Q3; no actual numbers given. At its UK operations, online revenue grew by 46 percent on a constant currency basis.”
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“Revenues dropped 9 .2 percent to $540.3 million, from $595.1 million in Q306. Advertising revenues were down 9.8 percent to $457 million, from $506.7 million in the same quarter last year.”
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“The 2004 vintage of the BBC website is never going to go down as a design classic, but honestly, what did it do to deserve this?”
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“the word “classifieds” doesn’t really mean much to anyone… to their users, Craigslist isn’t a classifieds site and Google isn’t a search engine. They are “places” to “find stuff” and “find things,” respectively.”
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“in focus groups the abstract category “classifieds” didn’t really have any meaning for people.”
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“In hyperlocal news, one reader’s banality is another’s vital intelligence.”
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“When the town or city finally decides to fix the pothole, that event is genuinely news in your world… News about a pothole repair just five blocks from your street is the least interesting thing you could possibly imagine.”
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“I thus proudly determined my own top ten of the UK’s finest journalism bloggers:”
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“I doubt very much that you would add any other feature to your carefully designed site the careless way that you seem to have chucked the ads in.”
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“Your content will be remixed whether you like it or not. Do you want to be involved or not?”
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“I decided to put together a list of ways that the Mercury News currently lets people participate, their stated plans for adding more participation (according to the Rethink blog), and some ideas for how they might take that further.”
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“With a Web operation, news gets out quickly but in smaller chunks, and then it is tested against the facts… It is never really finished. Instead of a mammoth project aimed at a single product, it is a series of small steps that eventually take you some
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“More than eight in 10 Internet users also do some offline activity while online, according to Burst Media.” 58% watch TV, while 30% read a magazine or newspaper.
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“Dagbladet has begun using user-generated videos to illustrate secondary stories. Werring mentioned that it’s often impossible to illustrate these with video except by using videos shot by users on the scene.”
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“This is cool: After joining in a blogfest at the BBC this week, the editor of the showcase news program [Newsnight] took a suggestion to heart and handed over a bit of control to the people formerly known as his audience.”
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“An analysis of 88 major papers showed that in the last two years, about half had seen no significant change in combined print and online readership, or showed an increase, said Bob Cohen, president and chief executive officer of Scarborough.”
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“Here is a chart for the Top 25 newspapers by circulation, both daily and Sunday, based on the new FAS-FAX numbers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations this morning, for six-month period ending Sept. 30.”
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“The new audience metric calls attention to the “full reach” of newspapers at a time when much of the media attention is on the decline of newspaper sales.”
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“A group led by Outlook Editor John Pomfret and involving editors and reporters from the newsroom and wpni has drafted guidelines for blogging on washingtonpost.com”
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“As newsrooms worldwide, big and small alike, march towards integrating their print and online operations, newsroom design has become an increasingly significant consideration for editors.”
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“Capturing an audience isn’t enough. Capturing a demographic isn’t enough. You need to capture intent. What are people doing on your site? Are they receptive to ads? Will they use them? “
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“Just because a news organization can show which stories are most popular, does the practice serve a purpose for society when we publish the Internet’s equivalent of television network ratings?”
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“For the year, online revenue was up 57.5 percent to $56.3 million. Lee claims that its combined newspaper websites reach more than 11.5 million unique visitors monthly. Last year at this time, Lee said its sites reached 2 million users.
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“Advertisers are well on the way to spend $21.4 billion on the Internet in 2007, says eMarketer’s new online ad spending report. By 2011, spending on advertisements online is expected to reach $42 billion.”
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Updated list of newspaper and media sites produced with Drupal.
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“Welcome to the BBC Internet blog, a sister blog to the existing Editors’ blogs for News and Sport. A place where we, senior staff from BBC Future Media teams will talk about issues raised by you about the technology behind bbc.co.uk…”
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