What does a high-profile journalist have to say about the current media, honestly?
After Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 170, newspaper front pages were splattered with blood (here’s a slideshow). But when The New York Daily News doctored a particularly graphic photo to remove a wound, the question arose: Should newspapers be protecting their readers from such graphic images? Does gore belong in newspapers and news sites, and, if so, what benefits does it provide?
Newspaper photographer Walgney Assis Carvalho was murdered in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais on Sunday, 14 April. He is the fourth journalist to be killed in Brazil this year.
A little over a year ago the Miami Herald started to construct a new production centre in Doral, a city located in north-central Miami-Dade County, Florida, which is now nearing its completion.
Office-less, seven-person startup InsideClimate News beat The Boston Globe and The Washington Post for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, announced Monday. The committee’s choice marked a “score” for digital-native journalism: While web-only peers The Huffington Post and ProPublica took Pulitzers in 2012 and 2010 respectively, donor-funded non-profit InsideClimate News was founded only five years ago and had much more humble roots.
Identify what you can offer that others can’t, and pay attention to what your customers want, was the key advice from the paid online content panel at Digital Media Europe 2013 in London.
Today, Tuesday 16 April, sees the unveiling of Guardian News & Media’s new digital platform, “GuardianWitness”, a tool which builds on their innovative “open journalism” drive (see WAN-IFRA’s special report on “open journalism”) by allowing readers to influence the newspaper’s content like never before.
manroland web systems presents a special folder that allows – in combination with triple circumference presses – to produce up to three different editions simultaneously.
At the same time magazines are trimming resources and slashing staff, Condé Nast is massively expanding — far beyond the publishing industry.
Regionalisation in advertising, prize draws or the update of breaking news during production – these are just a few of the many possibilities inkjet imprinting provides for newspaper printers. KBA now offers to retrofit its offset presses with Kodak inkjet systems.
2013-04-16. Flattr, the “online tip jar,” announced today that Twitter has removed the possibility to flattr tweets via the use of favourites.
2013-04-16. Mobile is fast-becoming the digital platform that publishers focus on, said speakers on the mobile business panel at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference in London.
