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 The Hartford Courant, Connecticut's largest daily, is being sued for plagiarism by local competitor The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, reports the Associated Press. The suit was filed this week in Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford. It accuses the Courant of lifting 11 articles, both in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:11am EST
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 Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said that he would "love to see what happens" if Rupert Murdoch goes ahead with his plans to block News International titles from Google's search index and implement his proposed paywall. Speaking at an event organised by the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:42am EST
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 The New York Times is launching its new Chicago edition today, reports Editor & Publisher. The new edition, which will be included each week in the Friday and Sunday New York Times, will be composed of two additional pages of local news, policy, sports, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:40am EST
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 After much speculation in the past few days about exactly how many staff were being laid off, the Associated Press has announced that a total of 90 employees worldwide have been let go this week, and that the [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:47am EST
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 As reported earlier, the Associated Press has been holding a series of layoffs this week. Though the official totals are still unavailable, there are some numbers coming in. According to the News Media Guild, which represents 1 300 of the AP's [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:52am EST
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 A collection of seven papers in Ohio have collaborated on a single story, to be run in all seven editions on 29 November, reports Editor & Publisher. This will be the first joint reporting project by the group of newspapers. The group began sharing content [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:49am EST
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 Alternative newspaper Creative Loafing, a six-branch newspaper chain, is launching an idea that will earn it a lot of publicity while helping a good cause, reports The Saint Petersburg Times' TampaBay.com. To raise money for the charity The Children's Home, the Tampa version of Creative [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:55am EST
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 Last night's tension filled 2010 World Cup Qualifier between France and Ireland exploded in extra time when French captain Thierry Henry set up what would be the decisive goal after keeping the ball in play with his hand from an offside position. The [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:52am EST
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 Mercedez Bunz over at MediaGuardian sums up a rising trend in the US news media market with a single word: Local. Apparently one of the driving forces for local information and news is the rise of smartphones and the delay of local trade and listings [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:46am EST
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 There is hope for the internet news business, according to The Online Journalism Review's Brian McDermott. Newspapers looking to charge for their online content simply need to follow the right business model: that of bottled water. While probably not one's immediate comparison to be sure, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:21am EST
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 The Daily Edition is Sony's new electronic reader set to release for the holiday season. Widely touted as a 'Kindle killer,' the Edition is designed with newspaper and magazine readers in mind. It features a seven-inch touchscreen and wireless connectivity, bringing it in direct [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:14am EST
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 New Jersey paper the Star-Ledger, published its first redesigned print edition today, with a front-page editor's note reading: "it is done with one goal in mind: making it easier for you to read." "Yes, we've made the type bigger," Kevin Whitmer writes, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:19am EST
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 Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced in a blog post that he plans on starting a local news service for Hawaii. The service aims to cover public affairs and civic matters across the Hawaiian Islands and will launch in early 2010. At the moment, however, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:00am EST
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 In an interview with David Baird, a professor at Anderson University, Rob Durst, a Boston-based business and technology consultant spoke of the ways in which he believes newspapers can remain viable in the digital age. "Magazines and newspapers should stop treating their publications [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:57am EST
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 Poynter media business analyst Rick Edmonds has suggested that part of Rupert Murdoch's strategy in threatening to remove News Corp content from Google's indexes is to make an alternative agreement with Microsoft's search engine Bing. It is a "theory bouncing through the [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:21am EST
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 The New York Sun, was once a conservative 5 day paper published in the NYC region from 2002-2008 and was intended to pick up on the New York Times' lack of local coverage. It stopped publication on September 30th 2008 due to financial devastation. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:00am EST
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 Just a day after announcing the appointment of new editor Josh Tyrangiel, BusinessWeek is reportedly formulating plans to lay off 100 employees, according to the Wall Street Journal. A round of redundancies of this size would cut the staff by 25 percent. The business [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:39am EST
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 Allvoices, a citizen journalism network that uses a combination of algorithms and user feedback to assess the reliability of contributions, is to start a Provoices network for professional journalists, aiming to cover beats and [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:26am EST
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An Editor & Publisher exclusive reveals new data from Nielsen Online showing that two-thirds of the top newspaper websites had year-on-year declines in unique users. These difficulties can be accounted for by considering the surge in traffic from the US presidential campaign and the unfolding of the financial [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:45am EST
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 Aftenposten, Norway's most trusted newspaper, needs to cut 15 editorial positions, reports journalism.co.uk. In order to do so through voluntarily measures, the Schibsted-owned paper has offered all of its journalists redundancy packages, part-time positions, or reallocation to other jobs within the company- including work as a [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:42am EST
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With all the recent hype surrounding Google's aggregation of news websites, one blogger has carried out a simple observation task with some interesting results. Kevin Sablan, writing for his blog Almighty Link, decided to find out just how much Google relies on news organizations for content. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:34am EST
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 California Watch is a nonprofit news organization based in Sacremento that supports local investigative journalism and will provide stories to news publishers when it is launched in December by the Center for Investigative Reporting. CW is the largest investigative team in California and is dedicated [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:30am EST
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 The Washington Blade may have been closed Monday but it may not be gone forever. Following the announcement of the closure, employees of America's longest running gay newspaper met at a DC coffee shop in an attempt to organize a revived edition [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:25am EST
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 ImpreMedia, the biggest Spanish-language newspaper publisher in the US, is the latest to reveal it will outsource a sector of its workforce. Yesterday the company announced that it will farm out the design, formatting and production of its advertisements and editorial pages to Business News [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:15am EST
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 The circulation and printing offices of several large national and local papers have been raided by investigators of the Manhattan district attorney's office in a union corruption investigation. The ongoing investigation into the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union had offices of The New York Times in [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:44am EST
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 In his latest blog post, David Cohn a.k.a. "DigiDave", founder of crowd-funded news site spot.us, states that journalism needs to be redefined - and moreover, that "honest communication" must be preserved: "Journalism as a word is loaded because of the ministry it invokes. The [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:35am EST
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 As speculated, the Associated Press laid-off an undisclosed number of employees Tuesday. According to the AP, the move was done to reach its goal of cutting payroll costs by 10 percent. The cost cutting has been slowly implemented since last October when the AP announced [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:50am EST
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 A new survey by Scarborough Research has found encouraging results for the American newspaper industry. According to the study, 74% of adults read a printed or online newspaper in the past week. These 171 million readers compose the critical mass of news consumers in [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:47am EST
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Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has resigned from the Press Complaint Commission's code committee after it criticised the Guardian's coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, reported the Guardian and others. The PCC's code committee oversees the voluntary code of practice which governs journalistic best practice in [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:58am EST
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 Editor of the London Evening Standard, Geordie Grieg, revealed the paper has managed to reduce its distribution costs from 30 pence per copy to 4p since going free, according to the Guardian. London's major afternoon daily dropped its 50 p cover price [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:57am EST
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 It was announced today that deputy managing editor of Time Magazine, Josh Tyrangiel, will become the new editor of BusinessWeek magazine, reports MediaBistro. The magazine was recently bought by Bloomberg LP. Tyrangiel will start at editor once the acquisition is finalized. Former editor, Stephen Adler, [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:45am EST
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 The Times of London is to start charging online during the first half of next year, James Harding, the paper's editor, said at the Society of Editors conference in Stansted, Essex. He said that the Times would charge for 24-hour access to the website, [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:58am EST
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 Starting tomorrow, Ireland's largest selling national daily, the Irish Independent, will include Foinse, Ireland's newly revived Irish language newspaper. Foinse, which closed in June, will now be included in the Independent each Wednesday. This will up the country's largest Irish language's circulation from the previous 4 [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:36am EST
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 Mecom, a Europe-wide 'content and consumer business' under David Montgomery, reported an 18% fall in advertising revenue in the four months preceding November. The company owns over 300 newspapers and claims a readership of 20 million per week. This fall marks an improvement from the [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:05am EST
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 The Spectator magazine switched on its paywall back in September, and expected an accompanying massive drop in traffic and ad revenue. However, the hit has not been nearly as bad as expected. Before charging for everything, The Spectator got a good portion of its weekly [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:45am EST
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 UK publisher Haymarket will close two of its media-focused titles this week. Twenty-five year old Mediaweek will cease to publish immediately with today being its final day in print and Revolution, a monthly publication will now become a give away quarterly publication within marketing. [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:41am EST
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:30am EST
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 After announcing late last month that it would create the role of Social Media Editor, the BBC has appointed Alex Gubbay as the first to fill the position. Currently the Interactive Sports News Editor for BBC Sport, Gubbay will commence his new [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:18am EST
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:05am EST
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 Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of The Daily News, has installed $150 million worth of new high-speed advanced printing presses at the paper's printing plant, The New York Times reports. Zuckerman's upgrade, which allows the Daily News to print every page in color at higher [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:00am EST
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 The Washington Blade, a gay newspaper with a circulation of 23,000 announced it would close its doors yesterday. The decision was a result of an inability to find a buyer for the paper which had been forced into Chapter 7 bankrupcy. The publication, [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:52am EST
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 YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported. The application, to be unveiled today, will allow media outlets to [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:11am EST
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 USA Today have launched a new initiative in collaboration with Penn State, Indiana and Missouri schools to test how students respond to e-paper versions of the print publication. The e-edition of USA Today is assured to be identical to the print version with [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:53am EST
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Frédéric Filloux, editor for Schibsted and co-author of the weekly media newsletter Monday Note, has criticised the way the French government is subsidising the newspaper industry, at a time when the new body representing online news publishers, Syndicat de la Presse Indépendante en Ligne, is currently debating whether or [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:07am EST
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 As journalism morphs in the digital age to become more comprehensive than just the written word, newsrooms are looking for more efficient ways to get their stories out across all mediums, fast. One proposed method is platform journalism, a notion that content is developed centrally, [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:50am EST
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 A new study carried out by the Boston Consulting Group has found that 48 percent of regular internet users in the United States would be prepared to pay for their online news; a considerably lower figure than many other Western countries, the New York Times has [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:08am EST
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 The Boston Globe has announced that it has begun publishing a new digital version called GlobeReader, reports Editor & Publisher. The GlobeReader can be read both online and offline and will replace the preview edition that has been available at no charge from the Globe's website [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:58am EST
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Media heavyweights Arianna Huffington and Mathias Döpfner went head to head on Thursday in a debate concerning the future of paid content at The Monaco Media Forum, the Financial Times has reported.  Döpfner, CEO of German media giant Axel Springer, opened [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:56am EST
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Brothers Mark and Gary Stern announced Friday that they will begin publishing a daily in Detroit, Michigan, starting 23 November. The Detroit Daily Press, as the new paper will be known, was conceived by the brothers following the announcement that the two major papers in the Detroit area, The Detroit [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:30am EST
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The Miami Herald is to launch a set of online hyper-local websites before the end of 2009, reports Editor & Publisher. The metro daily will initially link five community websites: South Miami and Pinecrest; Miami Springs, Virginia Gardens and Medley; West Kendall; Key Biscayne and Coral Gables. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:33am EST
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 A study carried out by Continental Research has found that the best way to get consumers to pay for online news is via single article micropayments. The survey of 500 readers of newspapers and magazines found that only five per cent would be [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:01am EST
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:28am EST
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 MediaGuardian reports on the latest ABC figures for UK Sunday papers, with The Mail's Sunday edition showing circulation increase. Daily Mail & General Trust's Sunday tabloid reported a circulation rise of 5.14% in October, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations; a 3.43% [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:18am EST
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 Chase Carey, News Corp COO, is unhappy at the state of the Wall Street Journal's online paid content arrangements, despite it being one of the few profitable and successful paywalls. Carey specifically referred to the fact that readers can view WSJ content for free through [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:00am EST
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 Two American universities announced this week that they will be abandoning their plans to investigate further the possibility of Amazon's Kindles replacing textbooks due to lack of accessibility to all students. The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University both made their decisions due to the lack [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:37am EST
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 A few days ago in an interview with Sky News Australia, Rupert Murdoch declared he would remove his newspapers from Google results, accusing the search engine of "stealing stories." Online traffic analyst, Hitwise, has posted an article revealing that the media [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:34am EST
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 An Iraqi court recently issued a fine for the Guardian's negative reporting on the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to worldwide dismay. The article was written by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi staff correspondent for the Guardian, who basically reported on how Maliki was being [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:26am EST
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 The Wall Street Journal will launch its anticipated Japanese-language website next month, reports Media Asia. Japan.WSJ.com is expected to reproduce Japanese translations of the english WSJ edition as well as content from other Dow Jones publications. The website, which is the result [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:14am EST
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 London Lite will publish its last issue today, announced the BBC. The free daily, owned by Associated Newspapers, had previously declared that it would be closing following the announcement that the Evening Standard would drop its 50 pence cover price to become a [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:50am EST
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 Despite cutting 100 jobs less that a month ago, the New York Times has announced a further 28 editorial employees from its New York Times News Service will lose their positions in 2010. [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:23am EST
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 It was revealed yesterday that the executive shake-up at the Washington Times that occurred this past Monday also ousted executive editor John Solomon, who has been missing in action since the announced layoffs, reports Editor & Publisher. Solomon's fate had been unclear until [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:14am EST
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 At a time when ad pages and profits are taking a plunge, there is a news media that is seeing an increase in traffic and revenue- video advertising. While more dependence is already being placed on Internet advertising, many news organizations have [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:47am EST
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 An article in Tuesday's edition of the New York Times did more than just raise awareness of the pollution islands in the Pacific Ocean, it involved a revolutionary form of journalism. Lindsay Hoshaw was able to write the article thanks in [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:42am EST
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 Two
German entrepreneurs are setting up a new kind of home delivered newspaper
among worldwide news print failures. On November 16th the brave
young businessmen are venturing into the industry with an innovative newspaper
service - the first of its kind in Europe - at arguably [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:00am EST
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 The state of New Hampshire recently backed 75% of a $250 000 loan taken out by the Eagle Times, a daily newspaper which publishes out of Claremont, NH. The loan has not yet been approved, but is expected to be finalized by the end of the [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:59am EST
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 The Guardian announced Wednesday that Guardian News & Media will layoff more than 100 of its current 1 700 editorial and commercial employees. The company, which oversees the Guardian, the Observer, and guardian.co.uk, will be offering voluntary buy-outs until the close of the year to [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:55am EST
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 The Editors Weblog (and all of France) will be taking a day off to remember the Armistice with Germany, November 11, 1918. See you on thursday! [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:49pm EST
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 The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago yesterday, and the coverage of the anniversary has caused many newspapers to abandon traditional methods of news coverage for newer, more technologically focused reporting, according to the Guardian. This follows in the footsteps of the current trend of [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:34am EST
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 The Washington Times announced Monday that it has fired three top executives- president and publisher Thomas P. McDevitt, cheif financial officer Keith Cooperrider, and charman Dong Moon Joo, according to the New York Times. Former vice president, Jonathan Slevin has been named acting president and publisher. [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:33am EST
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 Following yesterday's announcement by Rupert Murdoch that he would be yanking all of his content off of Google search results, there has been an uproar of responses. Yet Murdoch also made another, more overlooked announcement in his interview with Sky News Australia- Murdoch plans [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:34am EST
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 The Star Tribune announced it would cut another 100 jobs yesterday, as the Minnesota paper attempts to reduce costs in its struggle to stay above board, only recently emerging from bankrupcy protection. Editor Nancy Barnes said in a memo to staff that about 30 [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:31am EST
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A new Spanish language newspaper was launched by a group of Latino journalists last week in Boston. El Tiempo de Boston, a free weekly, began publishing last week in response to what founding director, Maximo Torres believes is a lack of focus on issues affecting Latino communities, despite [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:22am EST
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 In his latest move, Murdoch has vowed to remove newspapers in his media empire - including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal - from Google's search index. The mogul sees this as step towards encouraging people to pay for online content, [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:31am EST
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 It has been a rough couple of years for the newspaper industry with the recession taking its toll on the financial stability of many organisations. In the past year alone at least ten publications have filed for bankruptcy and many have been forced to close their [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:30am EST
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 Jose Galang has reported on the current state of Philippine media entities for the Asia Media Forum, which he has described as being "in a state of flux". According to Galang, in light of rising production costs no longer covered by the now declining readership, [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:53am EST
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 Self-promotion is a tricky business. Over the past couple years, social networking has made it much easier (and cheaper) to get your name out there to the public. Most of the time anyway. The use of social media for promotion had really began to pick up [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:46am EST
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 The Associated Press and Verve Wireless
are teaming up to provide a 'white label' mobile app builder for publishers.
The service will allow publishers to create a customized mobile platform for their
products, based on the AP mobile app.
The offer is aimed at smaller
publications that don't have the resources [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:30am EST
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The " Free Flow of Information Act of 2009" is a a piece of legislation currently being worked out in the American Senate, and is aimed at both protecting journalists and national security interests by specifying under what conditions a journalist should be compelled to disclose a confidential source. [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:00am EST
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 In a recent conference call with several reporters on New Corp's quarterly earnings, Rupert Murdoch admitted to problems and delays in implementing a universal paywall for his news agencies (the delay being "with everything"). However, exactly how News Corp plans to go about [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:15am EST
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Following intense speculation that the Trinity Mirror is set to open up another round of redundancies, the division yesterday confirmed further cut backs, putting some 17 editorial jobs at risk, the Guardian has reported.Trinity Mirror Merseyside publishes two dailies - the Liverpool Echo and Liverpool Daily [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:58am EST
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 The Associated Press is extending its AP Mobile News Network throughout the Americas, with the launch of AP Mobile América Latina, a multimedia wireless news portal that expands the popular AP Mobile news network to its consumers. The service offers Latin [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:12am EST
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Infractor, an interactive application using a multitouch table and physical objects to search and filter information from the New York Times archive, has been developed by students at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. Infractor enables more creative and intuitive information searching than the standard keyboard and mouse combination, [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:31am EST
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 The employees at the West Highland Free Press have just become their own boss. Last week, the ten employees officially became shareholders in the trust that owns the paper, making the Free Press the first newspaper in Britain to be owned by its employees, reports the [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:06am EST
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:56am EST
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 The news industry is being forced to navigate some rough weather with numbers of cutbacks and closures seeming to increase each week amidst growing financial pressure. In the dismal climate, one thing many publications have made cuts on it the budget for interns, reports Editor [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:42am EST
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 Guardian America, the U.S. branch of Guardian News and Media is laying off six production/edit employees, according to Editor and Publisher. The affected employees, most of which come from the Guardian's Washington DC office, have been given three months notice of the [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:13am EST
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The New York Observer announced Kyle Pope as its new editor late yesterday afternoon. He will replace current Interim Editor Tom McGeveran, who announced last week that he will be leaving the paper at the end of the year. Pope comes to the Observer off a three-year stint at [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:38am EST
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Newsnow.co.uk, the UK's largest news aggregator with a 20% market share second only to Google, posted a public letter on its home page regarding the multiple legal actions it faces from several news publishers. In an open letter addressed to the UK's newspapers, particularly the Times, Sun, Guardian [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:38am EST
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 Sarmayeh, Iran's major reformist and economic newspaper was shut down by a government-run press supervisory branch on Monday, reports AP. The daily was apparently closed because its content strayed from business topics, according to the official IRNA news agency. "The supervisory board cancelled the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:48am EST
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 Twitter is ubiquitous. There are roughly 25 million tweets posted everyday. And the brains behind Twitter keep introducing new things to keep us hooked. This week they introduced Twitter Tim.es just following the introduction of Twitter Lists, reports the Online Journalism Review. Twitter Tim.es uses the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:39am EST
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 During an employee meeting on Tuesday at Bloomberg News, the
business news giant announced that it is considering charging upwards of $1,000
yearly for some of its content on Bloomberg.com, the Wall Street Journal
reports. This would mark the most recent of Bloomberg's moves to expand its
subscription [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:31am EST
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 The Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper, celebrated its 117th birthday by announcing its biggest restructure ever, reports AP. In a memo to employees, publisher John Cruickshank said the paper's owner Torstar co. would begin to broadly rework its flagship publication- [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:28am EST
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 The Associated Press has announced that some 50 newspapers who had previously given notice of cancellation to the service, have changed their minds and withdrawn those notices in the last few months. In a statement to Editor and Publisher, AP's director of media [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:38am EST
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 Rupert Murdoch admitted last night that his plans for News Corp newspapers to begin charging online by June next year, might have to be postponed. To date the media mogul has been the most proactive publisher in the move to charge [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:48am EST
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 Portugal's newest daily newspaper, i, was launched in early May and has attracted a significant amount of attention due to its rising circulation figures and innovative approach. It recently won a design award from the Society of News Design. The Editors [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:33am EST
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 The Wall Street Journal will launch its new Bay Area Edition today, reports MediaBistro. The new format will contain Bay Area specific news to be published once weekly, on Thursday, into the A Section. In addition, the Journal is also launching WSJ.com/SF, a Bay [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:30am EST
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) is hiring! As previously reported, the group received a £2 million grant in July from the Potter Foundation and now it appears to be looking to put the grant to use. According to journalism.co.uk, BIJ reports to be looking to recruit three [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:30am EST
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CNN opened a news-gathering and production center in Abu Dhabi yesterday, reports WorldScreen. The new hub will be home to the news network's first daily live news show form the Middle East, Prism, hosted by Stan Grant. The show premiered last night. It will also become home to existing shows [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:25am EST
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 MediaNews Group announced yesterday that it will be placing pay walls on two of its newspaper sites by early 2010. They will be partial pay walls because, according to MediaNews Group CEO and vice-chair, William Dean Singleton, "we don't think putting everything behind a pay wall [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:10am EST
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 After twenty years as a reporter for the Washington Post, Avis Thomas-Lester has become a blogger. Though somewhat of a Luddite, she seems to be taking it all in stride throughout her first blog post on Rapid Reinvention. Due to the change in the atmosphere and execution [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:24am EST
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