tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70947569543310416632024-03-13T09:31:30.941+08:00Newspapers Watchmusomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-82594238412736773982011-08-01T17:23:00.002+08:002011-08-01T17:29:49.120+08:00If your news site isn’t social, great design won’t matterThere’s been a lot of sound and fury in the media sphere recently, sparked by a blog post from web designer Andy Rutledge that tore apart the New York Times website for being ugly and cluttered. This caused a firestorm of sorts on Twitter, as defenders of the site argued that most of his criticisms and proposed solutions were unrealistic — which many of them arguably are. But the biggest blunder musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-43555389260982250572011-05-18T10:22:00.003+08:002011-05-18T10:30:24.163+08:00Newspapers Define Pillars of Transformation at mediaXchangeBy Mark Contreras (The following is an excerpt from the speech Mark Contreras gave at the Newspaper Association of America's mediaXchange conference in Dallas, March 25-28, 2011)The cowboy-poet Jim Moroney has always been an inspiration and role model for me, and a comment he made several months prior to the April board meeting of the NAA made a lasting impact. He said, "I don't mind getting musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-4616782370011399682011-05-11T17:52:00.001+08:002011-05-11T17:53:54.425+08:00Ten things every journalist should know about dataEvery journalist needs to know about data. It is not just the preserve of the investigative journalist but can – and should – be used by reporters writing for local papers, magazines, the consumer and trade press and for online publications.Think about crime statistics, government spending, bin collections, hospital infections and missing kittens and tell me data journalism is not relevant to musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-28369427941193077372011-05-11T17:46:00.001+08:002011-05-11T17:48:18.015+08:00Journalists need to better understand the business of digital journalism, study saysThe Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has published a new report on digital news economics, which highlighted how the relationship between content and advertising is changing, and what this means for the news business. The report comes just after the Pew Research Center's report on how people navigate the digital news environmentThe main aim of Columbia's research was to find out musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-40423985513228532662011-05-11T14:05:00.002+08:002011-05-11T14:09:42.813+08:00A voice for Under Age writers“WE can’t drink, drive or vote, but we can write”: so say the 12 young journalists behind new online newspaper The Under Age.The Under Age, launched last week, is a collaboration between Fairfax Media’s The Age and youth media organisation Express Media. It is written entirely by Victorian high school students.The young writers gather each fortnight at Media House in Melbourne to brainstorm and musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-52189574392676496922011-05-11T13:56:00.000+08:002011-05-11T13:58:18.585+08:00Outing: Media should charge for iPad appsMedia organizations are “leaving money on the table” if they are not charging for their iPad apps, says Steve Outing. After a month with an iPad, he writes that he likely would have paid for any of the news apps he uses, as long as they were sold as permanent apps, not individual stand-alone editions as Time magazine originally was. “This approach completely misunderstands the device,” he writes.musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-57027824645287894662011-05-11T13:52:00.001+08:002011-05-11T13:55:42.219+08:00iPad news apps lack accessibility and usabilityApple’s iPad and iOS come with several built-in accessibility features that make the iPad relatively easy for disabled people to use. Unfortunately, many news applications were not built to take advantage of these accessibility features, rendering the apps ultimately useless for people who are disabled.VoiceOver is the crown jewel of the iOS accessibility features (the operating system behind themusomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-10389753250111276092011-05-11T13:35:00.001+08:002011-05-11T13:38:11.556+08:00Hold the front page - it's time US papers had a redesignThe Wall Street Journal looks fresh and modern, and circulation is rising. For many other American newspapers, neither of those things is trueHere are three seemingly unrelated things you notice this only-in-America week. One is the rise and rise of the Wall Street Journal, up 1.2% (to 2,117,796 average copies a day) on the latest US ABC figures. Another is the impressive run of newspaper front musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-87822528662625658802011-05-11T13:20:00.001+08:002011-05-11T13:29:17.606+08:00BBDO/Proximity Once Again Propels Berita Harian’s ImageThe New Straits Times Press Group has launched a new brand campaign for Berita Harian developed by BBDO/Proximity, seeing a revamp of Berita Harian with enhanced design, the renaming of lifestyle section Berita Dua to Rona, refreshed editorial content and a new campaign line “BH mewarnai hari anda”.The campaign is expected to augment Berita Harian’s image and increase readership amongst all musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-86336633768991705752011-05-11T13:16:00.001+08:002011-05-11T13:19:15.925+08:00Dare to be differentWhen a big story breaks, editors face the challenge of trying to avoid telling readers what they already know. MALCOLM COLLESS explores the options:THE recent devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan highlighted a critical challenge for newspaper editors: how to strike a balance between saturation coverage and the need to be different.It’s a hard call in the immediate aftermath of something asmusomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-5984885462920528942011-02-10T16:24:00.001+08:002011-02-10T16:27:19.609+08:00The Daily Is Interesting, But Is It the Future of Newspapers?THERE’S been a lot of pre-launch interest in Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad “newspaper” The Daily. This is partly because the News Corp. founder is known for making ambitious bets on new technology — even if they don’t always work out, as he found with MySpace — and also because Apple was a key partner, and used the News app to launch its new subscription model for content (it costs 99 cents a week ormusomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-65827799521055676752011-02-10T16:20:00.001+08:002011-02-10T16:24:24.060+08:00Is News Corp.'s iPad Daily a Killer App?News Corp. (NWS) has launched its iPad newspaper dubbed the Daily and the effort will be closely watched. The Daily is either the rebirth of the newspaper or another overfunded launch like Conde Nast Portfolio.Screenshots: The Daily launchOf course, the Daily could turn out to be something in between. The big point here is that the fate of the Daily will be determined in months and years from nowmusomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-25516354678132923842010-11-21T12:33:00.003+08:002010-11-21T12:39:30.309+08:00News Corp set to unveil iPad newspaperWASHINGTON - After months of top secret development, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. appears poised to take the wraps off a digital newspaper for the iPad called "The Daily."News Corp. has been tight-lipped about the project but the Australian-born media mogul acknowledged its existence for the first time in an interview last week with his Fox Business Network.Asked what "exciting projects" his musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-76373587627301178422010-11-16T11:56:00.001+08:002010-11-16T12:02:36.874+08:00Proof that newspapers have a futureDyson at LargeMessage for all doom-mongers: if printed newspapers are supposedly in a dying fly position, how come I'm thumbing through a 236-page weekly right now? Yes, you heard that right, the 236-page edition of the Chester Chronicle, dated 21 October 2010. So huge, in fact, that the presses have to print the paper in two lots, both stapled, the first 'main book' made up of 112-pages, musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-50991472758139527952010-11-16T11:25:00.001+08:002010-11-16T11:26:51.242+08:00Cut the price? Raise the price? Neither seems to work, according to the ABCsThe Daily Star lost 70,000 sales when it raised its cover price. The Sun kept its price low – and lost 70,000 copiesNational newspapers' ABC audited sales figures for October arrive full of talking points and lip-chewing dilemmas. See, price matters: once the Daily Star stopped selling at 20p it lost 70,000 copies in a month. See, price doesn't always help: while the Sun hung on at 30p it musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-38569908076955332412010-11-16T11:21:00.001+08:002010-11-16T11:24:14.242+08:00Singing the same old song of declining newsprint salesBy Greenslade BlogI wish I could sing a different song just once when the monthly ABC figures arrive. For years, the circulation story has been depressingly similar - down go sales at every title and, of course, down goes the national newsprint market. I do try to seek out reasons to be cheerful. And I concede that we can afford to smile about compensatory increasing online users. But we are musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-61060414779976729522010-11-12T18:58:00.001+08:002010-11-12T19:01:05.384+08:00How social networks can inspire investigative reportingHead of Media24's investigative unit, Andrew Trench, writes about how social networks can inspire in-depth reporting, citing a recent four-week long City Press investigation of Tony Yengeni as an example. About a month ago a Facebook friend posted an interesting status update which directly led to four weeks of investigative reporting by the Media24 Investigation team and which culminated in musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-32276856586887475752010-11-12T17:42:00.000+08:002010-11-12T17:44:27.502+08:00The most successful newspaper and magazine iPad appsTop five free/part-free iPad apps (newspapers and magazines) 1) The TimesPublisher: News InternationalPrice: Free for the first 30 days, then £9.99 per month (if bought via Apple). The iPad app is also available as part of a digital-only subscription (£2 per week/£8.66 per month) and is complimentary (as are the websites) to readers with a seven-day subscription to the print paper.What you musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-6750149122914713492010-11-12T17:28:00.001+08:002010-11-12T17:31:06.324+08:00It’s a Tablet. It’s Gorgeous. It’s Costly.Every time there’s some new hot, heavily hyped gadget from Apple, it takes only a few months for the copycats to crop up. IPod? Zune! IPhone? Android!The iPad? Well, it came out in March, and the iPad alternatives are just landing in stores now. Many of them run Google’s Android phone operating system. That’s a shrewd move. Android is mature, polished and free (to the pad makers), and it musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-46197215940373260192010-11-12T17:24:00.000+08:002010-11-12T17:27:04.546+08:00The extinction timelineA futurist's advice: Newspapers will need to apply existing capabilities in new ways According to the predictions of futurist Ross Dawson, we can be guaranteed newspaper jobs in the UAE until at least 2030. He has created a map to serve as a timeline of the eventual demise of print media worldwide. The map indicates newspapers will be “insignificant” in 52 countries by 2040; in USA the date musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-44182518056701231842010-11-12T17:15:00.001+08:002010-11-12T17:23:49.826+08:00Apple, Android help smartphone sales double over last year, report saysWatch out dumb phones, the smartphones are piling on.The global sale of smartphones during the third quarter nearly doubled over the same period last year, to 80 million, said research firm Gartner Inc. in a report Wednesday. Smartphones comprised about 19% of the 417 million mobile phones sold in the quarter, a jump of 6 percentage points since last year. At the same time, the standings musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-82077707345884460052010-11-10T11:03:00.001+08:002010-11-10T11:06:50.784+08:00In DemandA week inside the future of journalism By Nicholas Spangler I spent eight years at The Miami Herald, mainly writing features, and when the paper laid me off in 2009, I was humiliated and sad. But people told me getting laid off could be a good thing and I listened to them. “Invent” and “take charge” and “define” are some of the words I remember from those conversations, which left me, in musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-2600823907778101092010-11-10T11:02:00.000+08:002010-11-10T11:03:24.418+08:00Change of direction for Guardian Media? The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to undergo a change of strategy under plans drawn up by its new chief executive, Andrew Miller, reports today's Sunday Times print edition [not online]. The paper claims that GMG will be restructured by separating its newspapers - The Guardian and The Observer, and their websites - from the rest of its multi-media assets. Those assets include its holdings musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-10734909279583725272010-11-10T10:50:00.002+08:002010-11-10T10:57:21.143+08:00Independent's i 'selling 125,000 copies'Cut-price paper's circulation has dropped off since launch and staff are feeling the strain of producing it, according to sources.The Independent's cut-price spin-off i is thought to have attracted average daily sales of about 125,000 copies, with circulation thought to have halved since launch. Staff on the paper have been working "extreme and unsustainable hours" since the launch, musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094756954331041663.post-89214818219582006342010-11-09T20:52:00.000+08:002010-11-09T20:54:41.704+08:003 strategies emerge for charging for iPad publicationsApple has been talking to publishers about launching enhanced subscription tools for the iPad, but simply allowing subscriptions is not enough. The iPad needs a digital newsstand for newspaper and magazine sales and subscriptions.Right now there are a number of obstacles separating the needs of publishers and the expectations of consumers regarding iPad-based publications. Apple is right in musomarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01316437391382039442noreply@blogger.com0