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Scott Karp has an interesting suggestion for newspapers online. Put news first.
[L]et’s look at the New York Times. It’s homepage is arranged, like most traditional media brand sites, by what is most important.
Here’s the problem — if you visit the New York Times throughout the day, and no important news has broken, the homepage remains largely […]
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Television commissioning. How hard can it be? Roll up, buy a series, put it on TV. That was before you could download the stuff.
Writing about TV is more difficult. But here is Will Hutton conjuring up the pre-download era:
Every British television executive would love to have commissioned the American series Mad Men. With compelling accuracy, it […]
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My colleague at City University, Neil Thurman, has published his latest study on user-generated content (UGC). You can read a pre-press version on his webpage. The headlines?UGC is being held back by:
1. Legal liabilities - publish and be damned.
2. Moderation costs - “80 per cent of the user generated content initiatives launched by the publications surveyed […]
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So is online helping British journalism colonise the US? FishbowlNY’s take on a Guardian piece certainly makes it look that way:
# The Daily Mail saw online traffic increase 31% for Mail Online compared to 01/07.# The Guardian’s traffic increased by 25.5%.# Rupert Murdoch’s highbrow/lowbrow Times of London and The Sun saw traffic up 38% and […]
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Rob McGibbon has just launched an intriguing looking site called Access Interviews, basically aggregating interviews. Will it work?
(And in case you wondered what Andy McNab looked like…)
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The Times (of London) should have found itself generating big web traffic thanks to its print edition making the front page of Drudge.
So how did it (nearly) happen? With a little help from unfounded allegations of a lesbian affair involving Hillary Clinton and an aide.
Last week the Drudge Report originally linked to this Times story from […]
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