The opening day of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress brought three roundtable discussions and unexpected crowds to Hyderabad, India, on 30 November.
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find' [...]
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find [...]
Ahmed Benchemsi, publisher of Tel Quel, Morocco, has had many lawsuits filed against him.
One lawsuit involved a cover story about how drugs reflect sociology, religion, sex, and money.
Kotaro Akiyama, president of Asahi Shimbun, Japan's second-largest newspaper, reassured the Financial Times that Japanese newspapers are sitting pretty and will not experience a decline like their European and North American counterparts. 
Irina Samokhina (Russia), CEO of Krestyanin, described state run newspapers as 'monopolist' in Russia and discussed tensions between the media and the Russian government during the Press Freedom Roundtable.
While speaking at the Free Press Roundtable at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, Joze Ruben Zamora, publisher of El Periodico, Guatemala, detailed his battle against the oppression of free speech in his country.
Guatemala has a long history of violence, including [...]
As the London Evening Standard settles into its decision to drop its 50 pence cover price and go free, the Guardian is reporting that yet another freesheet is expected to hit the streets of London. Just a week after launching, The Detroit Daily Press has halted publishing until after the New Year.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Daily Press states, "Due to circimstances [sic] beyond our control, lack of advertising, lateness of our press runs and lack of distribution and sales, we find it" [...]
Stephen Nilan, vice-president of marketing for Digital Technology
International Ltd., registers for the World Newspaper Congress shortly
after the 12:00 p.m. start.
Over the next few days, the Editors Weblog will be providing extensive coverage of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum, working with our sister publications, the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper blog and the dedicated WAN-IFRA multimedia [...] 
The registration for the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum began at noon Monday.To ease registration traffic, conference badges were sent to the hotels of participants if the hotel was known, said Poland native and information director, Anna Kwawczyk.
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Metro.co.uk has just launched a complete redesign of its web site.The Beta version, which went live yesterday, includes many changes with a focus "on improving navigation, channel and article templates and the site's overall aesthetics which we believe is an improvement on the present offering" [...]
Telegraph Media Group announced the appointment of William Lewis to Managing Director Digital in a press release yesterday.
Sorry Rupert, but there's "not a cat in hell's chance" of making charging for general news content on the internet work, according to Stevie Spring, the chief executive of publishing group Future. 
Irish Times editor, Geraldine Kennedy has said that the freedom of the press 'depends on responsibility, protection of sources, and a newspaper's financial security,' accusing the Internet of posing a "huge threat" to the latter. 
In a public poll conducted by One News Page, 89% of respondents said that the proposed News Corp partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine for exclusive news access was a good idea, or 'a winner' in the words of the poll.
Irish Times editor, Geraldine Kennedy and a Times journalist, Colm Kenna, have been forced to pay a legal bill amounting to 600,000€ between them, despite winning a case in which they were defending their right to refuse to reveal sources. 
In a bit of encouraging media news, Daily Mail & General Trust has beaten profit forecasts and the recession to record an overall 23% fall in profit from October 4th 2008.
The London Evening Standard will cut its midday News Extra edition in order to focus on improving the currency and quality of its evening edition, the Guardian is reporting. 
Johnston Press, the second largest newspaper owner (measured by weekly circulation) in Britain, has announced it will trial paywalls at six of the company's websites as of Monday in order to test the consumer reaction to charging online, reports Press Gazette. 
The Newspapers Society has launched Locally Connected, 'the
UK's first integrated print and online audience currency,' that measures
combined print and online newspaper audience, according to a NS press release.
The East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona, which has previously announced it would shut down on 31 December, has received a letter of intent to purchase the troubled paper from a Tuscon newspaper publisher. 
Wikipedia has been loosing editors at an alarming rate in recent months, reports the Wall Street Journal. In the first three months of this present year, Wikipedia lost 49 000 English-language editors, as compared to the 4 900 they lost during the same time frame [...] 
The Chicago News Cooperative is a startup news organization
serving the local Chicago area as an internet-based nonprofit news service. 
The BBC has announced today that it will not charge for online news, despite accusations from James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, that it is "throttling" the market and preventing competitors from expanding online. 
The ten per cent decline in newspaper circulation figures across the US announced last month by the Audit Bureau of Circulations could actually be misleading, reports Michael Liedtke for My Way. IN A SMALL theatre space underneath basement level of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, surrounded by videos of surreal contemporary 'dance,' the contributors to 'Libé des philosophes,' the November 19th, 2009 edition of Libération in which philosophers wrote all of the newspaper's content, gathered to ostensibly discuss the theme of' [...]
More debate has taken place over whether News Corp might be looking to make a deal with Microsoft to use its Bing search engine, if the company goes ahead with its promise to remove its content from Google in the next [...] 
It seems lately that Google is announcing changes almost daily. Following changes to its analytics program and the recent overhaul of Google Translate and introduction of Google Chrome OS, it is now time for Google News for mobiles to get an update into an easier to use [...] 
BNO News, which achieved fame for the use of citizen journalists to report breaking news via its @BreakingNews Twitter service in 2007, has announced it will launch a paid-subscription wire service early next year. 
The digital revolution is indeed ubiquitous. The McClatchy Co. used Facebook on Friday to trumpet the release of Kindle additions of five of its papers, reports Editor & Publisher. The Sacramento Bee, out of California, and the Anchorage Daily News, out of Alaska, have been [...] 
With BusinessWeek announcing staff cut backs set to swallow an entire third of its operation and The Associated Press shelving some 90 employees, last week wasn't a great one for those in journalism industry. And then to top it all off, Friday,' [...] 
Following the recent closures of MediaWeek and London Lite, a new paper is launching in London- though this one has a twist- it's composed entirely of content from blogs. The first of its kind, The Blogpaper is composed solely of [...] 
Arcadi Espada, a Catalan journalist who has frequently questioned the future of print journalism, is preparing to launch a new online only, paid for news website under the name of Factual.
After confirming it would cut a total of 90 jobs last week, the Associated Press has named six news editors and four interim regional photo editors amidst further restructuring intitiatives in the US. The appointees will oversee the now expanded multistate territories and are supposed [...] 
Former CNET executive vice president Stephen Colvin has been named as the first president of news site The Daily Beast, paidContent has reported. Leaving his post at CNET after two years, Colvin formerly held the position of president and CEO of Dennis Publishing for [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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, [...] 
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 [...] 
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' [...] 
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. 
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' [...] 
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. 
Mercedez Bunz over at MediaGuardian sums up a rising trend in the US news media market with a single word: Local. 
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. 
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.
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced in a blog post that he plans on starting a local news service for Hawaii.
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. 
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'" [...] 
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.' [...] 
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.
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, [...] 
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.
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.
Following recent survey results citing the relatively low percentage of Americans willing to pay for online news (which contradicts older data, although from the UK) and the supposed preference for micropayments (which also flies in the face of survey results and common [...] 
The Wall Street Journal's new Europe edition comes out today, with changes to both print and online offerings. The US edition of the WSJ will no longer be printed and distributed in London, and its subscribers will be offered the
European version instead.
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.
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 [...] 
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. 
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.
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 [...] 
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 [...] 
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.
