Forget about the newspaper loyalty card the newspaper loyalty phone is the future.
According to a report in Journalism.co.uk
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) has launched the world’s first ‘newspaper’ telephone to give users instant access to the paper’s online content.
The Nokia 6120 handset features a special DN button that gives subscribers direct access to the [...]

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After listening to a panel discussion on local journalism Jay Rosen says that the UK is two years behind the US when it comes to collaborative journalism.
It got me thinking about why.
Jay was one of the panel at the 7th Journalism Leaders Forum held at the Department of Journalism. The topic for discussion was [...]

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A few work related  events have come across my desk in one way or another that may be of interest.
 First up is the 7th Journalism leaders forum at Uclan on the 16th October. The event, Local Turf Wars Notes from the digital news frontline, includes contributions from:
Andy Mitten, a graduate of the department who, at [...]

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I got a mention in Press Gazette this week thanks to Graham Holliday asking my view on “handling the increased time demands of producing new and old media”.
The piece also has views from The Sun’s Graham Dudman and offers a nice insight in to the way they handle the digital transition in the newsroom.
As an [...]

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Paul Bradshaw has been doing some work on “a number of models around the news process, newsgathering, interactivity and business models.” The results are fantastic.
I particularly like his ‘news diamond’ concept.
Go and take a look at the kind of thing that should be shaping discussion in newsrooms for the next few months.

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Google news has announced a deal with four of the big news syndicators. You can read about it here , here and a good take from Paid content
The New York Times article ends with a doomsday warning to newspapers
Because of Google’s campaign to simultaneously reduce duplicate articles, the original wire service article is likely to [...]

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I have loads of stuff to catch up on this week, waiting accusingly in my google newsreader box. But I just wanted to post a little about a concept that is striking me as a growing area as I’ve been browsing around.
We should let the audience make the content. We should just print it [...]

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