Archive

11 May 2007
Archant website geo-tagging will provide personalised local news
Archant is overhauling its network of news sites to allow readers to see a front page personalised to their postcode.

13 April 2007
‘Hyperlocal’ community coverage for Trinity Mirror regional sites
Online emphasis on company’s newspaper brands as some weeklies relaunch as blogs.

6 April 2007
‘Redundant’ football writer takes website nationwide
A football correspondent who launched his own local football website after losing his job on a regional paper is planning to franchise his site to other journalists.

27 March 2007
Sniffing out new ideas: publishers' push for online innovation
As publishers realise they must foster online innovation, some are adopting the "skunk works" approach to product development.

16 November 2006
Stoll out to convince publishers: Google News is friend, not foe
Google News boss Nathan Stoll says the search giant and the news media need to co-operate.

16 November 2006
Fleet Street 2.0: Online news, robots.txt, and ACAP
In the coming year, one of the more technical running debates in online publishing will concern the development of a new standard for automatically informing search engines’ indexing robots about the conditions for accessing online content.

13 November 2006
Fleet Street 2.0: Who’s afraid of Google News?
You could have a conversation with Google about sharing revenue from online news — or you could try competing with them and just take it.

11 November 2006
Fleet Street 2.0: Has the Daily Mail really ‘defied the online movement’
The Daily Mail has a reputation as being one of Britain's online journalism laggards. But that view is dated.

11 November 2006
Fleet Street 2.0: Networked journalism and distributed FoI requests
Dr Ben Goldacre is calling on his readers to help him file a Freedom of Information Act request that a council refused on cost grounds. It's a great idea, but it probably won't work: here's why, and why it's a problem for journalism.

9 November 2006
Google News chief deflects challenge to share revenue
Google News boss Nathan Stoll ducked editors' demands for a share of the search giant's advertising revenue during his appearance at the Society of Editors conference.

27 October 2006
BBC unveils plans for new Web 2.0 features
The BBC plans to add a raft of new web 2.0 features to its website in 2007, according to the head of BBC News Interactive Pete Clifton.

20 October 2006
State-of-the-art camera gives Evening Herald a head start
The Plymouth Evening Herald has pioneered a state-of-the-art video camera strapped to a reporter's head, in a move which could signal the future for solo war reporting.

19 October 2006
Journalists unite against plans to restrict FoI use
Lord Falconer has been accused of trying to scupper the Freedom of Information Act for journalists with a series of proposed rule changes announced this week.

16 October 2006
BBC will appeal FoI ruling on Balen report
The BBC will appeal to the High Court to overturn an Information Tribunal ruling that the corporation should release a report into its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the Freedom of Information Act.

11 October 2006
International online audience is the big challenge, says Times editor
The Times' biggest challenge in coming years will be to expand its online audience globally — particularly in India, says editor Robert Thomson.

28 September 2006
Telegraph web chief: 'One size won’t fit all'
The Telegraph's different print and online reader demographics will present new challenges for integrated newsroom editors.

19 September 2006
Is long-tail 'hitism' causing journalists' negative view of blogs?
Are journalists allowing their understanding of the new media world to be clouded by the assumption that publications with mass market appeal are the only ones that have any value?

7 September 2006
Journalists should understand the 'Long Tail'
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how his Long Tail theory of digital economics applies to online journalism.

1 September 2006
BBC loses landmark FOI case over Middle East coverage
The Information Tribunal has ruled against the BBC in the first case testing the exposure of the corporation's journalism to requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

31 August 2006
New York Times blocks UK access to terror suspect story
The New York Times is blocking access to one of its stories for UK-based internet users amid concerns that it could be held in contempt of court for prejudicing the trial of terror suspects.

3 August 2006
Associated ‘hyperlocal’ sites to broaden regional empire
Associated Newspapers' digital division is hoping to expand beyond its current Northcliffe regional newspaper markets by launching a number of "hyperlocal" community news web sites.

27 July 2006
Media sites must take on ‘nightmare’ bloggers
Established magazines and newspapers must learn to respond flexibly to competition from specialist bloggers, according to one of the journalists behind a major new blog-related project from The Guardian.

8 June 2006
Analysis: The four critiques of ‘citizen journalism’
Press Gazette’s “citizen journalism” award has highlighted why nobody likes the term.

1 June 2006
Google News inventor defends aggregator site
The inventor of Google News has defended the service against publishers' charges of copyright theft and hinted the search giant may be more transparent about how it determines which news sources to include.

1 June 2006
OhmyNews founder says citizen journalism can work everywhere
“I think there are many countries where the OhmyNews model could work,” says founder Oh Yeonho.

18 May 2006
IFJ: newsroom phone taps are a ‘catastrophe for press freedom’
This week's allegations that intelligence agencies in the United States and Germany obtained journalists' telephone records and even tapped journalists'

16 May 2006
German newsroom spy row escalates
Seeking to quell an escalating scandal about tactics used to uncover leaks to the press, the German government on Tuesday banned its foreign intelligence service from using journalists as informants.

11 May 2006
’Citizen journalism‘—still a case of ‘them’ and ‘us’
Last week’s We Media Global Forum struggled to find common ground over the issue of citizen journalism

4 May 2006
Guardian win should reveal entire list of Whitehall staff
Journalists could gain access to the names and direct-dial telephone numbers of every Whitehall civil servant after a landmark Freedom of Information ruling in favour of The Guardian by the Information Commissioner.

26 April 2006
BBC unveils vision of on-demand news future
BBC journalism should focus on rolling news, on-demand offerings for broadband and mobile devices and user-generated content, according to the findings of a year-long review of the corporation's activities for the next decade announced yesterday.

13 April 2006
BBC faces crunch ruling on FoI
The BBC is facing a landmark ruling from the Information Tribunal that will test a tactic it has used to reject more than 400 Freedom of Information requests.

6 April 2006
Online publishers facing skills shortage
Online publishers are struggling to find qualified editorial staff, according to a survey released by the Association of Online Publishers.

30 March 2006
Public input will ‘liberate journalism’, predicts Snow
Citizen journalism will help "professionalise professional journalism", according to Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow.

30 March 2006
Northcliffe shake-up was ‘long overdue’
Daily Mail and General Trust has refused to comment further after revealing plans to merge its national and regional newspaper divisions — but some journalists have welcomed the news, calling the shake-up "long overdue".

23 March 2006
Turning the digital deluge into news
Last summer, the BBC created a dedicated department to filter and verify the mass of video clips and images sent in by the public. As Martin Stabe finds, the unit is already being expanded to cope with the volume of submissions

16 March 2006
Guardian tackles blogger competition with website
Bloggers are now the real competition for national newspaper columnists, according to the editor of the Guardian's new website Comment is free

21 November 2005
Airlines: Ryanair’s gamble
It may be cheap to buy a seat on Ryanair, but passengers get hit with extra charges for food, paying by credit card and excess baggage. Now the airline is considering high-altitude gambling in an effort to make more cash off fliers.

3 May 2005
On the web, the dark spots stay dark
Old habits of international reporting are being amplified by new media.

24 March 2005
Can the market save the world?
The EU has world’s biggest market-based approach to reducing CO2 emissions, but environmentalists wonder if the price will ever be right to effect substantial change.

10 March 2005
Minority sports root for London bid’s success
Because the host country automatically qualifies for team sports competitions, a successful London bid for the 2012 Summer Games would make Olympians of British athletes who play obscure sports.

18 November 2004
EU chemicals policy highlights rift with US
The proposed REACH regime demonstrates the growing divergence between the regulatory approaches taken by the European Union and the United States.

14 October 2004
EU Court: states may ban laser-tag game
German authority’s ban is upheld by the ECJ

1 October 2001
Techies told to police porn
Most states require photo developers to report any suspected child pornography they encounter to police. Now, South Carolina has become the first state to expand this mandate to include “computer technicians.”

1 October 2001
Letting traffic lights talk to each other
Some state transportation departments are implementing traffic light synchronization using a wireless technology developed by the military to hide radio signals.

1 September 2001
Extra Credit: Missouri gives historic preservation a boost
Missouri’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit does more than just give developers tax write-offs for restoring historic properties; developers can take their credits and sell them to generate financing for rehabilitation projects.

1 September 2001
Back-up plan for sewers
Residents of Boise, Idaho, who don’t pay their sewer bills could be in deep doo-doo — literally.