A number of news outlets – including the BBC, Guardian and Channel 4 News – mentioned yesterday in their coverage of the closure of the News Of The World that TheSunOnSunday.com had been registered just two days ago. (It was also mentioned by Hugh Grant on last night’s Question Time.) It’s a convenient piece of information for a conspiracy theory
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What an incredible few days. The PCC’s statement yesterday was extraordinary – even if it turns out to be merely a cosmetic exercise. Today’s announcement that the News of the World will end as a brand is, as its mooted replacement would say, a “stunner”. It took almost exactly 3 days – 72 hours – to kill off a 168-year-old
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Has online journalism become ordinary? Are the approaches starting to standardise? Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election – the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation. Here are a few observations on how the media approached their online coverage:
Has anyone pointed out the workings of Google Scholar to Rupert Murdoch? He’s going to have a fit when he finds out (first published here) … Imagine if Google offered a deal like this to news publishers (as you’ll have guessed, this is exactly how Google Scholar works): Where content is behind a paywall, Google will index it all and
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All self-respecting newspaper sites have share and social-bookmarking functionality, such as links to Digg, Reddit, Fark etc. But if the results of StumbleUpon are typical then: Times Online is miles ahead of its rivals when it comes to users sharing / bookmarking its pages. The FT has a lot of work to do. Adding icons for an individual service makes
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Serene Branson: The Sun changes its story – but not the URL
It appears last week’s guidance from the PCC on correcting URLs as well as the contents of stories has not reached The Sun. Serene Branson’s on-air slurring was initially mocked by the tabloid with the headline “Grammy’s reporter goes gaga”. When it emerged that the presenter may have* suffered from a stroke the article was rewritten – but not the
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