News Innovation: The Telegraph’s experiments with e-commerce
A useful look at how the UK’s Telegraph.co.uk has branched out into several e-commerce areas – notably its Fantasy Football and Fantasy Cricket channels and puzzles. According to digital editor Ed...
View ArticleThe Shiny Media story: what’s going on?
Since news broke that Shiny Media had gone into adminstration, Journalism.co.uk has been trying to gather more information – especially in regards to the details of the new buyer. Unfortunately, calls...
View ArticleTelegraph.co.uk: Why is the right to refuse to disclose information the...
The Telegraph’s Kate Day looks at a case in California: a student journalist in was granted the legal protection given to professional journalists when a judge overturned a police search warrant. That...
View ArticleTelegraph.co.uk: MSN discussing hyperlocal partnerships with local papers
Microsoft has been very chatty this week – see its long-awaited announcement of a search partnership with Yahoo. On top of this and following the launch of the data-rich MSN Local, MSN executive...
View ArticleJournalism Daily: Reed divestment update and Chris Anderson on the media
Journalism.co.uk is trialling a new service via the Editors’ Blog: a daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site. We hope you’ll find it useful as a quick digest of what’s...
View ArticleStephen Farrell’s kidnap raises the ‘media blackout’ question: it’s time for...
This week’s operation in Afghanistan to rescue New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell, during which a British soldier, Farrell’s Afghan translator (Sultan Munadi) and two civilians were killed, has...
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You must not embed the Telegraph’s embeddable video
It might look like you can embed this Telegraph video on your blog: But no: please take note of the last part. As both Journalism.co.uk and Fred Hatman, a journalist in South Africa found out, embed...
View ArticlePossibility of more redundancies at the Guardian; GNM losing £100,000 a day
Fifty editorial jobs needed to be cut at Guardian News&Media as part of an attempt to reduce costs by £10 million, it was announced in May this year. Now it looks like there could be more jobs at...
View ArticleNieman Reports: Latest edition focuses on journalism and social media
This quarter’s Nieman Reports, from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, has too many good articles in one place to select just one as an Editor’s Pick – so here’s a link to the whole index...
View Article#FollowJourn: @MarcusWa/online editor
#FollowJourn: Marcus Warren Who? Editor, Telegraph.co.uk What? Former foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, now editor of Telegraph.co.uk, in charge of the day-to-day running of the...
View ArticlePDA: Telegraph.co.uk will chase channels not web traffic, says digital editor
Telegraph.co.uk will move away from chasing high reader numbers online to focusing on “content, commerce and clubs”, says Edward Roussel, digital editor at the Telegraph, in this interview with PDA....
View ArticleTelegraph writer attacks ‘spooky’ Lib Dem ‘posse’ for critical comments
Cristina Odone, writing on Telegraph.co.uk, faced a commenter backlash when she wrote an article labelling Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, “Dr Death”. Along with many perturbed commenters, Evan Harris...
View Articlevirtualeconomics: Why a Telegraph paywall might just work
News from the Financial Times yesterday that Telegraph.co.uk could start charging for content prompts this post from Seamus McCauley on why a Telegraph paywall might just work at this time: The paywall...
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Twitter’s new ‘follow’ button encourages readers to follow reporters
The Telegraph is is among the first websites to add Twitter’s new ‘follow’ button, which allows users to click and follow reporters or the newspaper’s Twitter account in a single click. In an...
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Ten examples of games used to tell news stories
One of the sessions at news:rewired – media in motion will look at how newsgames and gaming mechanics are being used in journalism. Shannon Perkins, editor of interactive technologies at Wired.com and...
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