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It's easy to be overwhelmed by all the doom and gloom predictions of the newspapers' bleak future, so I was heartened when I came across some excellent advice for newspapers who want to maintain their relevance in the years to come. Doc Searls writes: "Newspapers are
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I keep running short on time this week, but here are some interesting perspectives on the media future I simply haven't had time to blog about (do follow the links though, but be warned that the recap of Doc Searls' speech is partly in Danish): Nobody killed
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Despite reaching a limited Danish audience on its launch day due to technical problems, Nyhedsavisen's 'Mohammed-scoop' has reignited fury among Muslims globally and sparked a debate on the legitimacy of publishing the story in the first place. On Friday the free paper's first edition
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I've argued before that the changes social media brings about goes much deeper than just changing the outlook of the media landscape. Social media is fundamentally changing the structure of public discourse, something that is becoming more and more apparent in the political world. In addition to the
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A majority in the Danish parliament has called for a new law to protect consumers who do not want freesheets flooding their mailboxes and landings, but provided the freesheets one last chance to sort out the current mess themselves, according to MediaWatch. It's tough being a consumer in
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Kampanje reports today that recent readership figures show Schibsted's free paper 20 Minutes has become the most widely read general interest newspaper in France, even surpassing Le Monde. To add to the woes of the traditional French press, the only French paper that can boast more readers than
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Undercurrent contemplates the recent inflation in predictions of the demise of the newspaper industry and suggests someone set up an index for measuring the number of doom and gloom prophecies. In the meantime, he says, there is always Technorati... However, I think it's worth keeping in mind that
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Strong words from Aftonbladet's head of information, Olof Brundin, ahead of Monday's launch of the Schibsted-owned newspaper's new freesheet Punkt se. The new freebie joins an increasingly crowded market, though the battle between the Swedish freesheets so far is on a much smaller scale
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Not to a champion of investigative journalism, nor to the idea that there's room for a hard hitting, controversial news magazine in the Norwegian media market. Rather, it's goodbye to a news magazine that simply didn't make enough of a difference. Shelved at the
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Some seven free papers are currently fighting for advertisment revenues in the Danish freesheet war, one more is due to launch 6 October, and now the freesheet craze has hit Sweden as well. Last week Bonnier launched two regional editions of its freesheet City Stockholm in Malmö and Gothenburg to
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Not surprisingly, tabloid readership is in steady decline according to the latest readership figures. Print readership is down overall, and for the first time in history more people read Dagbladet online than on paper. Now the latter at least is a success story of sorts, and Dagbladet's online
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The latest readership figures are out, and among the losers, surprise, surprise, are the weekend papers. Despite increases in spending and editorial resources, readership figures for the measured Saturday editions are down four per cent, Sunday editions down six per cent. Knut Arne Furusaeter from TNS Gallup told Kampanje that