German Bill Would Charge for Aggregation
by: Alison Langley | Columbia Journalism Review News aggregators and search engines in Germany will be required to pay publishers a fee for using their content-even snippets, those brief extracts ...
View ArticleKennedy No Papers Getting It Right In Digital
by: Michael Depp | Net News Check Newspapers are all missing the mark in digital, says veteran media critic Dan Kennedy, hampered in many cases by clumsy paywall adoptions and too much debt on ...
View ArticleNew Yorks Journal News Drops Its Gun Map
by: Net News Check The Gannett-owned newspaper has dropped its controversial map of gun-permit holders in two New York counties. Janet Hasson, the paper's publisher, in an online statement ...
View ArticleA Downsized Boston Globe Opens Its Space for Community Uses
by: Christine Haughney | New York Times BOSTON - Among the many changes that Christopher M. Mayer wanted to make when he became publisher of The Boston Globe in 2010 was to transform a ...
View ArticleGallup and USA Today Part Ways
by: Aaron Blake | The Washington Post Gallup will no longer be conducting polls for USA Today, the two organizations announced Friday. Both said the split, after 20 years of collaboration, was ...
View ArticleYouTube Halts Funding for WSJ and Reuters Channels Reuters Cuts Positions
by: Hamish McKenzie | Pando daily YouTube has cut off funding to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that formed part of its $150 million dollar plan to help launch more than 100 premium channels. ...
View ArticleLionel Barbers email to FT staff outlining digital-first strategy
Lionel Barber: 'The FT's brand of accurate, authoritative journalism can thrive, but only if it adapts to the demands of our readers in digital and in print.' Photograph: Peter ...
View ArticleMorocco - Editor charged with defamation in Morocco
???? (CPJ/IFEX) - 15 January 2013 - Authorities should drop the criminal defamation charges against an editor in Morocco who reported that a government official had ordered champagne to his hotel ...
View ArticleGermany to move gold reserves back home
How Germany plans to move 700 tons of gold from New York and Paris to Frankfurt is none of your business, a bank spokesman said. "For security reasons we can't discuss that, partly to ...
View ArticleHamadeh accuses editor of Al-Akhbar of death threat
Ibrahim al-Amin wrote an article entitled "The [Special] Tribunal [for Lebanon] is void and we will not remain silent" in which he slammed Hamadeh’s latest attack on the paper for ...
View Articlei Editors Letter Obamas heavy expectations
Never can a president have taken office with heavier expectations than Barack Obama did four years ago. War-weary, recession-hit, divided America heard the soaring rhetoric of the first black ...
View ArticleParent of Honolulu Star-Advertiser buys The Garden Island newspaper on Kauai
The parent company of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser said Monday that it is buying The Garden Island newspaper on Kauai from Iowa-based Lee Enterprises Inc. Oahu Publications Inc. will move production ...
View ArticleChina newspaper touts Bangkok mall
The influential China Daily newspaper on Tuesday carried a major feature on the Central Embassy mall, which unabashedly aims at serving the Chinese tourist market. "Thailand's largest ...
View ArticleSchool Newspaper Competition wants your entry
SINCE 1988, school students have had the opportunity to don their journalist caps and enter the Newcastle Herald and Newcastle Permanent Building Society School Newspaper ...
View ArticleTuesday newspaper round-up AstraZeneca Japan Carpetright...
Tue 22 Jan 2013 LONDON (SHARECAST) - Health insurers and doctors in the United States are turning up their noses at ...
View ArticleColumbus Dispatch Launches Smaller Format
by: Benjamin J. Marrison | The Columbus Dispatch Reader Susan McCullough sent a note a week ago to ask an important question. "I participated in a group chosen to look at the new smaller ...
View ArticlePrice is right for Church of England | Media Monkey
Katie Price , reports the Mail. The Christian church surprised its Twitter followers - sadly not as many as its real-world followers - by throwing out a bit of religi-showbiz trivia when asked what ...
View ArticleHow The Sun jumped the gun on Harry – and vindicated his view of newspapers
When Prince Harry last went to Afghanistan, five years ago, the British media maintained a strict media blackout - only for the American Drudge Report website to reveal his presence on the front ...
View ArticleThe Suns defence editor Virginia Wheeler and former Met Police constable Paul...
Following stints with Reuters and the Press Association, Martin Hickman joined The Independent as a news editor in 2001. He became the Consumer Affairs Correspondent in September 2005 and has run the ...
View ArticleJan. 22 Teachers who bully – and other letters to the editor
My teachers told me that if I noticed bullying happening, that I should tell them (Teachers Who Return To Clubs And Sports Face Hostile Peers - Jan. 21): Who do I tell if the teachers are the ones ...
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