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Contextual advertising
Becca Owen, 22, and Chloe Taylor, 19, died after being thrown from a packed car with an exhausted driver at the wheel as the vehicle plunged off a dark road into a remote ravine. A news story from the Guardian about the deaths of two young women on a gap-year in Mexico was interrupted by…
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AP on Times Online
The AP‘s Matt Moore has a piece out on European newspapers – European Papers Upbeat on Survival. It has an interesting nugget on the Times: Zach Leonard, the digital media publisher for the Times, said pressures of the online world were forcing old journalists to learn new tricks. For example, search engines’ tendency to reduce…
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Eyetracking for online journalism
Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review has an interesting take-out on the lessons of eyetracking research for page design. There’s a comparison from one of the researchers between the New York Times and the BBC sites: I like the [NYT] content and the way they present it. The titles are succinct and look clearly like links –…
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"Investing" in journalism
Britain’s National Union of Journalists commissioned a study into the Trinity Mirror newspaper group. Here’s how the NUJ followed through: The NUJ is calling for the National Assembly for Wales to summon Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey to answer tough questions after an in-depth academic study exposed the serious threat to the future of quality…