The Financial Times continues to the lead the industry in digitial publishing by offering a new service to mobile phones. The Press Gazette has a story on the new mobile reader that is available globally and is compatible with most handsets including BlackBerry, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. The cool thing is that the user will [...]
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There is life after death. Press Gazette has been brought back to life. Last week this excellent publication folded and went into administration after a few last minute attempts to revive it. This week it’s been bought by specialist information group Wilmington.
Yesterday, Press Gazette Online reported that Wilmington has substantial experience in magazines, online information [...]
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Yesterday was a sad day for all of us who work in the UK media industry. After 41 years the Press Gazette has stopped publishing. There had been hope that an industry consortium would buy this excellent trade magazine from the administrator, but the deal fell through earlier this week.
A few days ago, the Gazette’s Martin [...]
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The Press Gazette is reporting that Johnston Press, publishers of the Isle of Man Examiner and its sister publications, is planning on rolling out a multi-media news room model originally developed at the Lancashire Evening Post.
Apparantly they’ve had a huge boost in website traffic and the newspaper sales have really strengthened. So now the publisher hopes to [...]
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The BBC is planning a bunch of new Web 2.0 innovations to be rolled out next year. There will be more personalisation features for BBC News Online, additional live statistics trackers and maybe even wiki style pages that would let users contribute to compilations of information. Cool!
More info at Press Gazette.
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The trend towards the use of user-generated content by the mainstream media continues to grow. The Press Gazette is reporting that ITV is preparing to screen the first end-of-year review programme to focus entirely on user-generated content.
I Was There: the People’s Review 2006, is an hour-long special and will feature material gathered from mobile phones, camcorders and [...]
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The Press Gazette is running a story about Talk PR telling journalists they could only attend a party if they promised to give the sponsor, Perrier Jouet champagne, a mention.
According to the story, The Sunday Telegraph’s Tim Walker said Talk PR director Anna Garrett invited him to last week’s Party Belle Époque on condition of getting a mention. [...]
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Wired editor Chris Anderson gives an indepth interview to the Press Gazette’s Martin Stabe about how social media is changing the role of journalists, how news is used and valued and the future of publishing. I think it’s important information for PR professionals too. Some key points from the article:
“When you consider that the newspaper presumption [...]
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Following in the footsteps of the Financial Times, The Telegraph has announced that it plans to morph from being a newspaper into a 24-hours news organisation providing information across a wide range of platform.
Unfortunately this means that jobs will go, in addition to the 90+ voluntary redundancies that took place earlier this year.
Chief Executive [...]
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The Press Gazette is reporting that News International has revealed the line up of senior journalists for its new evening freesheet. It launches on 18 September and will have a editorial staff of 70. It aims to reach 400,000 readers between 4.30 and 7.30 p.m. daily. Add these names to your contact lists now.
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