mashable :: The Guardian's international editions are proliferating, but before the newspaper launches an online edition in Australia later this year, it's uniting all of its websites under a single domain, theguardian.com.
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May 24, 2013
A global org: 'The Guardian' is finally moving to 'Guardian.com'
May 24, 2013 at 10:11 AM | Permalink
Twitter Amplify lets brands find viewers of their TV ads
New York Times :: A new product, Twitter Amplify, will help brands match advertisements with Twitter commentary by viewers.
May 24, 2013 at 09:12 AM | Permalink
Native ad terminology is a mess
Digiday ::If native advertising is the future of digital media, the industry should at least agree what it means.
May 24, 2013 at 08:56 AM | Permalink
Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case
Reuters :: In an unusual move before a trial, a federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence that Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-book prices.
May 24, 2013 at 08:53 AM | Permalink
UCLA Live-tweets brain surgery, posts Vine videos
Huffington Post :: It was an uncomplicated brain surgery the hospital had performed hundreds of times before (499 times, to be exact). But to celebrate Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's 500th deep brain stimulation operation Thursday, surgeons performed the world's first live-Vined brain surgery.
May 24, 2013 at 08:47 AM | Permalink
More than 9.5m uniques: Mail Online scoops biggest ever digital day with Boston marathon bombing
Guardian :: The Boston marathon bombing on 16 April provided Mail Online with its biggest ever digital day, attracting more than 9.5 million unique users.
May 24, 2013 at 08:27 AM | Permalink
May 23, 2013
Online campaign raises $15,000 for reporter who was shot in New Orleans
Poynter :: An online fundraising effort for New Orleans freelancer Deborah Cotton met its $15,000 goal within four days. While some of the donations came from her friends and family, others came from people who have never met Cotton.
May 23, 2013 at 10:22 PM | Permalink
Al Jazeera is the best thing to happen to journalism, unless it isn't.
The Daily Beast | Newsweek :: It always seemed a little improbable that Arab sheiks could save American journalism. But in a business as troubled as the vast wasteland of American television news, hope springs eternal, and the Al Jazeera network out of Qatar seemed to offer an opulent oasis.
May 23, 2013 at 09:57 PM | Permalink
The rise of contextual journalism
Columbia University | Research Paper Abstract :: What this study calls ‘contextual reporting’ has not been widely recognized (unlike, say, investigative reporting) as a distinctive news genre or news style and this article urges that it receive more attention
Read Katherine Fink, Michael Schudson, www.journalism.columbia.edu
May 23, 2013 at 09:41 PM | Permalink
Not the simple recitation of facts: Journalism is more about context
paidContent :: Journalism has been evolving away from just a repetition of facts or events and towards context and analysis, research shows — but this evolution has also created tension for media companies because it conflicts with the principle of objectivity.
May 23, 2013 at 09:35 PM | Permalink
Not the simple recitation of facts: Journalism is more about context
paidContent :: Journalism has been evolving away from just a repetition of facts or events and towards context and analysis, research shows — but this evolution has also created tension for media companies because it conflicts with the principle of objectivity.
May 23, 2013 at 09:30 PM | Permalink
Obama: Leak Investigations 'May Chill Investigative Journalism' (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)
The Huffington Post :: President Obama said Thursday that he is “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.”
May 23, 2013 at 09:09 PM | Permalink
Twitter deepens ties to TV with media deals, ad targeting
AdAge :: Twitter's ad pitch has been consistent over the past year: advertising on Twitter in conjunction with TV makes TV ads more effective. "Our perspective is everybody in digital has it wrong; they have been going to market with an either-or proposition," said Twitter global head of revenue Adam Bain. "Twitter is a bridge to these different screens and experiences."
May 23, 2013 at 08:00 PM | Permalink
Xbox One: should TV broadcasters be afraid?
Guardian :: Microsoft focused on TV over games as it unveiled its new generation console – and it could threaten rival platforms
May 23, 2013 at 02:07 PM | Permalink
Newspaper royal charter plans are 'bizarre', says Liberty director
Guardian :: Shami Chakrabarti blasts government and press proposals for watchdog, saying they have failed to follow Leveson blueprint.
May 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM | Permalink
Real-time platform Fact Tank: Finding news in the numbers
Pew Research Center :: Fact Tank will build on the Pew Research Center’s unique brand of data journalism. For years, our teams of writers and social scientists have combined rigorous research with high-quality storytelling to provide important information on issues and trends shaping the nation and the world.
May 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM | Permalink
How publishers organize for social era
Digiday :: While social rarely provides direct revenue, publishers see social media teams as vitally important.
May 23, 2013 at 09:53 AM | Permalink
Daily Mail publisher's print revenues slide
Guardian :: DMGT hit by fall in print ad income and circulation, but digital surge is led by 61% year-on-year revenue rise at Mail Online
May 23, 2013 at 09:51 AM | Permalink
Cross-device display ad campaigns: Responsive ads are coming
Digiday :: Publishers’ sites might be responsive, but the ad units they sell are fixed dimensions, unable to adapt to the screens of smartphone and tablet devices.
May 23, 2013 at 09:44 AM | Permalink
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 2013 is around the corner
MediaUpdate :: The 15th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival runs from Thursday, 6 to Sunday, 16 June at the Bioscope in Johannesburg and at Nu Metro V&A Waterfront and The Fugard in Cape Town.
May 23, 2013 at 09:25 AM | Permalink
Ziff Davis Buys Tech Blog Network NetShelter (Bill Mickey/Folio)
Folio :: Tech, gaming and men's lifestyle media company Ziff Davis has purchased NetShelter, a network of approximately 150 independent tech blogs, including MacRumors.com, SlashGear.com and AndroidCentral.com, from InPowered
May 23, 2013 at 09:13 AM | Permalink
New Louisiana law will jail journos for publishing gun info
Mother Jones :: A bill headed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk would subject journalists to a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail for publishing the names of concealed carry permit holders.
May 23, 2013 at 06:29 AM | Permalink
May 22, 2013
Higher security level: Twitter with login verification
Twitter Blog :: Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web
May 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM | Permalink
Tribune confirms former Yahoo exec Shashi Seth will lead Its newly-formed digital ventures unit
TechCrunch :: Shashi Seth, whose résumé includes management and executive roles at Yahoo, Aol, and Google, is joining the Tribune Company as the president of a new unit called Tribune Digital Ventures.
May 22, 2013 at 07:26 PM | Permalink
TwitCasting gets #seed #funding for social live-streaming expansion
Tech in Asia :: The startup has revealed that it now has US$640,000 in seed funding from East Ventures and various angel investors to help it grow.
May 22, 2013 at 01:08 PM | Permalink
400 positions worldwide: ESPN laying off 6 percent of workforce
MediaLife Magazin ::ESPN is slashing 6 percent of its workforce in an effort to cut back on costs, even at a time when the No. 1 cable sports network is churning out great profits.
May 22, 2013 at 01:01 PM | Permalink
DCMF condemns crackdown on Ugandan media
DCMF :: DCMF has condemned the siege of media houses in Uganda and sent an open letter to the President, Yoweri Museveni requesting clarification over recent events
May 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM | Permalink
Programmatic comes to out-of-home ads
Digiday :: Programmatic ad buying is slowly filtering down to more “traditional” channels like radio and out-of-home, too.
May 22, 2013 at 08:23 AM | Permalink
The New York Times reinvents the boring banner ad
AdWeek :: Like all of publishing, the Times is feeling the pinch of the display advertising market, where pricing has been squeezed by automated buying and clickthrough rates have fallen to a fraction of a percent, giving rise to a swell in theoretically more engaging branded content.
May 22, 2013 at 07:51 AM | Permalink
"Snow Fail": The New York Times and its misunderstanding of copyright
TechCrunch :: The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the same interactive experience in just about an hour? You’d like that, wouldn’t you? - Well, The New York Times wouldn’t.
May 22, 2013 at 07:34 AM | Permalink
May 21, 2013
You spend a lot of time with your mobile device at home. Even more if it's an iPad
AllThingsD :: Here’s the latest reminder, via the broadband usage report Sandvine put out earlier this month. The Internet services company says that mobile devices now account for 20 percent of traffic on home broadband networks. That’s up from 9 percent a year ago.
May 21, 2013 at 07:59 PM | Permalink
Twitter granted patent on pull-to-refresh, promises to only use it defensively
The Verge :: Can the Innovator's Patent Agreement bring peace to the patent wars?
May 21, 2013 at 07:55 PM | Permalink
Newspaper companies invest another $9m in local deal startup Wanderful Media
TechCrunch :: Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of newspaper and media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save.
May 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM | Permalink
.@photomatt: On Sunday, WordPress saw 72,000 (usually: 400-600) Tumblr posts imports/hour; no "exodus"
May 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM | Permalink
Japanese messaging app Line comes with a censorship mechanism to monitor conversations worldwide
The Next Web :: Line, a rival app developed in Japan which has 150 million users, is the next in line to pal up to the Chinese government and restrict the use of certain phrases on its service.
很好，幹你媽的我現在開始不想用LINE傳任何內容了 twitter.com/hirakujira/sta…
— Hiraku (@hirakujira) May 20, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 09:21 AM | Permalink
"One powerful newsroom" pulls back from its San Francisco roots
sfbg.com :: Locally focused journalism in San Francisco took another big hit today with the announcement that The Bay Citizen is being folded into Center for Investigative Reporting
May 21, 2013 at 07:59 AM | Permalink
Video-on-Demand viewing is gaining popularity
New York Times :: While companies weigh bids for Hulu and industry heavyweights complain that TV Everywhere isn’t going much of anywhere, another way to watch time-shifted television is quietly gaining traction: video-on-demand, or VOD.
May 21, 2013 at 07:38 AM | Permalink
70% of questions go unanswered: Brands lag in social response
Digiday :: We now live in a post-Oreo-tweet world. Acting fast is now an expectation. But surprisingly, brands are dropping the ball on basic social media interactions with consumers.
May 21, 2013 at 07:02 AM | Permalink
Tumblr: Yahoo’s ad sales force can't simply “turn on the ad fire hose”
Digiday :: Converting Tumblr's audience into ad revenue is no easy feat for Yahoo.
May 21, 2013 at 06:53 AM | Permalink
May 20, 2013
From $2.93bn to $4.14bn by the end of 2013: Digital TV video biz is booming
MediaPost :: As traditional TV platforms project small gains in their $70 billion business, new digital TV video businesses are looking at major hikes in the coming years to a smaller $4 billion business -- with cost per thousands seeing, at best, modest hikes.
May 20, 2013 at 10:38 PM | Permalink
Back-of-the-envelope calculations: How Yahoo makes Tumblr worth $1.1bn
Wired :: Yahoo just laid down a $1.1 billion cash bet it can make Tumblr, the indie blogging-and-arguing platform, a profitable part of its advertising business. Here are some back-of-the-envelope calculations of what has to happen for that bet to pay off.
May 20, 2013 at 10:25 PM | Permalink
Service Review: BBC Online should "provide a better local offer"
Guardian :: The BBC Trust carries out regular in-depth reviews of each of the BBC's services, as part of its Charter responsibilities. We have looked at every BBC service over the last five years and have now begun our second round of reviews. The first of these covers BBC Online and Red Button..
May 20, 2013 at 07:11 PM | Permalink
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson: Digital pay model “most successful” decision
paidContent :: In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company’s role in media disruption.
May 20, 2013 at 06:36 PM | Permalink
Yahoo: Expect ads on Tumblr to ramp up significantly in 2014
TechCrunch :: Expect more advertising by next year as well as more Tumblr content on Yahoo properties, but more of a cautious step as to how Yahoo will deal with some of Tumblr’s more NSFW content.
May 20, 2013 at 05:14 PM | Permalink
Tumblr deal: Yahoo promises not to 'screw it up' over $1.1bn deal
Guardian :: Web pioneer reveals details of acquisition of blogging platform, as site's 26-year-old founder tells staff: 'Fuck yeah'
May 20, 2013 at 04:46 PM | Permalink
Yahoo's Tumblr buy fails four tests of a successful acquisition
Forbes :: Yahoo will buy New York City-based blogging service, Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. This is bad news for Yahoo shareholders because the deal fails the four tests of a successful acquisition.
May 20, 2013 at 04:42 PM | Permalink
Data theft by 3rd party cookies: Publishers pay with audience data
Digiday :: Many publishers fear “data leakage,” the gross term for when sites lose their audience data to third parties that then use it for advertising elsewhere.
May 20, 2013 at 07:19 AM | Permalink
Singapore’s media giant MediaCorp invests US$40m in luxury e-store Reebonz
Tech in Asia :: Singapore-based luxury private flash sales site Reebonz (pronounced ‘ribbons’) has completed a $40 million (S$50 million) financing round led by Singapore’s media giant MediaCorp.
May 20, 2013 at 06:47 AM | Permalink
US: Traditional radio revenues flat, digital revenues up 9%
MediaPost :: Radio advertising revenues were flat at $3.5 billion in the first quarter of 2013, unchanged from the same period in 2012. Total spot advertising revenue, long the mainstay of the radio business, was down 2% to $3 billion, while digital revenues increased 9%.
May 20, 2013 at 06:24 AM | Permalink
Unique viewers, video networks in China: Youku, TENCENT, LETV
China Internet Watch :: According to the data from comScore, Letv’s number of unique viewers in February is about 100 million, making it the third largets video network behind Youku and Tencent.
May 20, 2013 at 06:17 AM | Permalink
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