Archive for the Express Tag

Cervical cancer jab: how the newspapers have learned nothing from MMR

The UK media have learned nothing from the debacle over the MMR vaccine – where they relentlessly covered stories doubting the safety of MMR, putting the lives of children at risk (this is cross-posted from my blog).

They are continuing their habit of undermining public-health initiatives with their latest scare story about the safety of the cervical cancer jab, after the tragic death of a schoolgirl who had the vaccine the same day.

Guardian the most bookmarked newspaper on delicious

The Guardian has more URLs bookmarked on Delicious than any other UK newspaper, as I first revealed here.

The stickiness of UK newspaper sites compared

Visitors to UK newspaper sites look at an average of 2.5 pages a day, according to data from Alexa. But 62.8% of users look at just one page a day.

Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds

The latest subscriber figures (see table below, and first published in my blog’s newspapers category) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds – and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to an alternative, such as their Twitter accounts.

Daily express website relaunching

Express.co.uk is about to undergo a redesign. I broke the news here, and there’s a good review of the new look (still currently in beta) at econsultancy.

Facebook, Dunblane and a 2 page apology from the Express – a lesson in online journalism ethics

2 weeks ago the Scottish Sunday Express led with this cover story (PDF) on how the survivors of the Dunblane massacre were turning 18 and – shock, horror – drinking and making rude gestures. Reporter Paula Murray, it seemed, had “managed to inveigle her way into a Facebook friendship with teenagers from the town and write a salacious piece about their “antics”, based on information
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Do Daily Express search suggestions reveal editorial agenda?

The search suggestions at Express.co.uk give a revealing insight into either what readers are searching for – or what the Express wants them to be interested in.

Piltdown Man joins the new media fold

I’m currently in the middle of a 3-week break from computers – in the meantime, here’s an article I wrote for Press Gazette the week before last, about the past year’s raft of newspaper website relaunches: The last Luddite has left the building. With almost every national newspaper having revamped its website in the past twelve months, Richard Desmond has
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