A four-wheeled multimedia newsroom, a WiFi hotspot and a bet on innovation: all this is part of the new project launched by the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which it calls “Web Car.”
A recent Pew survey shows the majority of people in the US who find news on Facebook don’t go there looking for it, but instead stumble across stories whilst on the site to chat with people and find out what friends and family are up to.
A group of the world’s leading press organisations, including WAN-IFRA, have written an emphatic, open letter to Queen Elizabeth II urging her not to sign the proposed Royal Charter that would enforce repressive statutory controls on the British press.
The European Press Prize – now in its second year – offers awards of 10,000 euros each for innovation, investigative reporting, distinguished writing and brilliant comment. Last year, the prizes went to journalists from Denmark, the Ukraine, Greece and the U.K.
There have been a few signals this week – from the UK, US and South Africa – that culture change remains the key driver of successful media transformation.
The Times and The Sunday Times have just revealed that they have reached 150,000 digital subscribers. Moreover, the number of print subscribers is now at 200,000; 50,000 more than when they launched the paywall in July 2010.
Many editors and newsroom middle managers have stories about a circulation department that consistently failed to deliver papers on time (with the result that unhappy readers and agents would, as a last resort, complain to the newsdesk).
On Monday Google launched a new site that gathers together and explains each of the tools it provides for journalists. Media Tools is a sleek one-stop-shop for news reporters, acting as a go-to site for writers looking for information on stories and ways of presenting them.
For the second year in a row, publishers are getting more traffic from Pinterest than they are from Twitter, according to a new study by Shareaholic, which tracked how eight of the most popular social networks are helping deliver traffic to publishers.
As of today the International Herald Tribune is being rebranded as the International New York Times, “a news report tailored specifically for the valued members of our global audience” says Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher at the NYT. This change signals another step in the evolution of The New York Times newspaper.