“British regional newspaper group Johnston Press axed its final 2008 dividend on Wednesday after saying its advertising revenues in 2009 to date were down 36 per cent,” Reuters reports. “The group, which has been especially hard hit by its high exposure to local classified advertis...

You could just predict the backlash on this one: David Carr’s latest piece in the NYTimes outlining a dream editorial meeting: “No more free content. The web has become the primary delivery mechanism for quality newsrooms across the country, and consumers will have to participate in fina...

“We’re seeing the newspaper business collapse in slow motion, but what will replace it? That’s the question behind a wave of start-ups trying to find a new model for local journalism,” says an article on AdAge.com. It takes a look at the new NYTimes’ ‘The Local...

CJ talks to senior SEO analyst for Hearst, Dan Roberts, about how he helped grow online traffic to the publisher’s website by 150 per cent using SEO and Wordtracker. Full story at this link… Similar Posts: DNA 2008: from outsourcing to in-house, De Persgroep’s ad strategy NY Gov. S...

Iain Hepburn, who edited the footage, shows how the Mail is using Flip cameras to cover hard news topics - in this case Charles Lavery in Afghanistan. Full post at this link… Similar Posts: Manchester Evening News mojo captures Ronaldo crash Sports Journalists’ Association: FT to drop Saturd...

A US county court judge has called on news aggregation site Topix.com to reveal identifying information about 178 anonymous commenters, who left comments on a story relating to sexual abuse allegations. The site has until March 6 to comply. Full story at this link… Similar Posts: Judge could o...

This afternoon @journalism_live ‘twinterviewed’ the Twitchhiker, aka Paul Smith, a freelance journalist from Newcastle. The background here is that on March 1, 2009, Smith will set off on a 30 day mission - to see how far he will get with the Twitter community as his only aid. Yup, he...

“With the announcement that Newsweek is planning to rethink itself to appeal to a smaller, more elite, but devoted, audience, two themes emerge that are worth considering,” writes Dr Mario R. Garcia. Firstly, the editor Jon Meacham’s statement that “If we don’t have somethi...

There are an extremely small number of companies which are likely to do relatively well during the recession, either because they are the market share leaders in their industries by a wide margin, or they are in businesses which sell products and services which are a necessary part of everyday life....

There is an editorial piece in the Jpost today written by someone who is now moving back to the US, after giving up on living in Israel. I feel badly that his absorption didn’t go well, and that he feels the need to leave Israel, but I question the newsworthiness of this op-ed. After all, almo...