Media
Is print and online integration really the way forward? When sifting through my feeds yesterday, I was struck by this line by Poynter's Steve Klein: "until the online and print copy-desk operations are fully merged on a 24/7 basis, they cannot consider themselves truly integrated. It&
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Interesting post from Shane Richmond on how the term "off stone" epitomises a mentality made redundant by the "digital revolution": No time limit means publishing faster. Less time, not more. And the other pressure, on resources, is changing the model too. One school of thought, embraced
Blogging
Adam over at One Man and his Blog alerted me to this brilliant post by Howard Owens, "Journalists who learn to blog help their online sites grow beyond shovelware". Adam is particularly taken by these lines: Most of the bad bloggers tend to gravitate toward current affairs blogging.
Media
Looking over the various coverage of Mecom's annual results in international media this morning, I was struck by this line from Financial Times (I must admit I've always found it a bit peculiar how FT often adds comments below their articles): "If Mecom avoids labour
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Although it is the worst performing 'Mecom-country', the changes wrought in 2007, has put Berlingske Officin, Mecom's Danish arm, ahead of competition in the Danish market. At least according to Henrik Schultz, a media analyst at Kaupthing, who follows Scandinavian media companies closely. "Montgomery has
Freesheets
Now, here's an interesting contrarian take on what's bringing down Schibsted's share price. To say that these are not the jolliest of times for media shares would be an understatement. Schibsted, the Norwegian based media group, much praised internationally for its successful online transition,
Media
Not much came of the Berliner Zeitung journalists' demands that their proprietor, Mecom-boss David Montgomery, divest the newspaper if he was not planning to invest in it and get rid of his henchman in Germany, Joseph Depenbrock. According to Taz.de, Montgomery, who had travelled to Berlin to convey
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Mecom-boss David Montgomery is expected to attend to the increasingly tense situation at the Berliner Zeitung in a visit to Berlin this week, according to Financial Times Deutschland, who claims nothing less than a war is raging in Berlin (in German). Now, several concerned readers from various Mecom-countries contacted me
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Drupal, a long time favourite free content management system of web hacker-geeks, is going mainstream. In Denmark, national news sites such as Information.dk, as well as media sites Mediawatch.dk and Journalisten.dk are among those who have swapped their expensive and often complicated content management systems (CMS) for
Media
Schibsted's plans to create a giant newspaper group that will see Schibsted-owned national Aftenposten 'merged' with regional newspapers Faedrelandsvennen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende was approved against all odds on Tuesday. Norway's media authority, Medietilsynet, ruled against the merger last summer, arguing that Schibsted&
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In his post on how Local news is changing - but not fast enough, Paul Bradshaw effectively and poignantly pinpoints what mainstream media is struggling to catch up with. To me, the quote below, is the perefect illustration that this is not new media - to my my mind, new
Media
It seems we have a new measure for media bias: Did someone just remove the Twingly link to the blog post in which you commented on one of the news site's articles? In the old days we spoke of all those issues that simply fell off the agenda,