CNN’s ireport has posed an interesting question

Faced with declining readership and a worsening economy, many newspapers are grappling with whether to stop the presses. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News recently closed its doors, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online-only format.
How does this affect you? Do you read the newspaper every morning over coffee, [...]

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I’ve been catching up with some reading (that “mark all as read” option only kept things at bay for a while).
I started with Alison Gows take on the an event at my Uni last week. Mark Skipworth, executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, came in to talk about the tele’s digital transformation. In [...]

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The second of my new year convictions is Print organisations will need to open source some or all of their content management system if they want to stick with corporate templates.
Why? Because it hampers attempts to upskill journalists and softens the brands that are supposed to be so valuable
Let me explain (ahh, go on.)

By corporate [...]

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Yesterday I set out four new year convictions. Things that I thought where going to be important this year because, well, they had to be.
First was Broadcast thinking will be the heart of successful print models this year.

In the past I’ve been pretty hard on broadcast. I think they have been slow to embrace the [...]

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Fellow UClaner Louise Thomas has published the findings of her research that looked at the use of social bookmarking. Plenty of interesting stuff
The type of bookmarks used also distinguishes the two groups, with links to sites such as Fark, NewsVine, MySpace and NowPublic proving much more popular among nationals than regionals.
While regional websites have a [...]

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Continuing a Francophile tone to the blog I thought you might find Alain Giraudo’s post on a report of the state of the internet interesting.
He picks up on an article on 20minutes.fr about the “ Etats Généraux de la Presse” - a kind of ‘what’s up with the newspapers then’ report.
Here are the findings (with [...]

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A very neat timeline of International Journalism: media freedom around the world from the journalism.co.uk team.
Definitely worth a look.

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Eric Scherer at AFP newsnet has an interesting roundup of the French media’s reaction to the head of Google News, Josh Cohen as he asks what role will Google play in the news ecosystem?.
He’s got this nifty video of the twitter coverage as well as some very juicy quotes and debate about the impact [...]

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