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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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Linking not plagiarising…
I wrote a piece on attribution for Press Gazette that kicked off like this: The Times on Monday carried a story that appears to rely heavily on the work of a blogging journalist. It’s about the TV ‘phone con.’ Other papers too followed the story up. Nowhere is the journalist mentioned, referred or linked to.…
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Is there a media campaign against UKIP?
Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…
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Britain’s free online news battle…
The biggest freesheet battle in the British media is being conducted online. According to the latest stats, the online versions of the Guardian and the Times have both moved up the website ratings. Guardian Unlimited got 16m unique users last month. Over the same period Timesonline.co.uk claimed 11m unique users. Both of these are part…