Freesheets
As I predicted at the start of this year, Dato – the first new door-to-door distributed freesheet to hit the streets at the start of the Danish freesheet war last August – has become the second free title to be withdrawn from the market. Berlingske Officin, Mecom's Danish division, has
Media
Mecom journalists may not be too impressed by their company's latest cost-cutting plans, but investors like what they see: Market Insider reports that "ABN Amro raises its price target to 99p from 82p as it assesses the impact of a series of deals costing £570m and which
Media
Journalists feel something is rotten in Mecom's Danish and Norwegian fiefdoms... Employees at two Danish Mecom newspapers on strike today Journalists at Mecom-owned B.T. and Berlingske Tidende decided to lay down their work yesterday, after the details of an expected redundancy plan were announced. Five journalists are
Blogging
I know using a social bookmarking site would make it a lot easier to keep up with things, but since my laptop is instrumental to how I earn my living, I am, perhaps irrationally, paranoid about setting my security settings to accept all cookies (which these sites demand). I am
Current Affairs
The 'hackers' in Sweden's most recent 'Watergate', which saw several Liberal Party activists, and a journalist, unlawfully log onto the intranet of the country's governing party in the run-up to last year's election, went on trial this week: At the
Blogging
Tim O'Reilly, the Web 2.0 guru who almost created a firestorm of his own when he recently called for a Blogger's Code of Conduct, complete with badges and all, in the wake of the Kathy Sierra firestorm, tells Wired he has changed his mind (interesting
Blogging
Imagine your're putting together a documentary, or just a news story for the screen, and all the people you feature in your story blog the entire transcript, or their key quotes, for fear your editing should misrepresent their positions. That's exactly what happened when CNN put
Blogging
Yes, revisiting that age old debate again, but here's an interesting development and an excellent quote (both via David Black): Trinity Mirror’s Buckinghamshire Advertiser has relaunched its web site. It’s very cleanly designed. But there’s something significant that is unusual about it — it’s a
Media
Despite how Norway's most successful newspaper, both in terms of profits and readers, is the online version of VG, aspiring journalists would rather work for VG's print version. The former is currently hiring, the latter firing. Still, while 1510 applied for summer jobs in VG this
Blogging
If you enjoyed Doc Searl's recent post on Giant Zero Journalism, this podcast (via Adriana's Furl feed), which I of course only found time to listen to this weekend, provides further food for thought: Craig Burton has said that the best geometric representation of the net&
Media
Put Trond Giske, Norway's culture minister, on a panel with two media companies he has accused of threatening local democracy - Mecom, represented by David Montgomery, and Schibsted, represented by Birger Magnus - and you get a very interesting discussion indeed (so interesting that this post is way
Free speech
The authorities in Hong Kong have decided there is not enough evidence to prove Yahoo! Hong Kong handed over information from Shi Tao's Yahoo mail account, which helped convict the Chinese reporter, accused of leaking state secrets, to ten years in prison on mainland China (via The Times