Archive for December, 2006
Dec30th2006
Video: Newspaper front pages of Saddam Hussein's execution
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Saddam Hussein's execution is global news and this video is a gallery selection of Front Pages from the world's newspapers. These are the first editions and none of them show the dead body.
Interesting to study how different papers present the news for their readers. Leave comments and study the pages in greater detail [...]
Published December 30th, 2006
Dec30th2006
The ever-evolving newspaper
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Society of Professional Journalists december article
Published December 30th, 2006
Dec30th2006
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
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Dec30th2006
Saddam hanged: Newspaper front pages
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Click on any thumbnail image to magically enlarge the page view without leaving this page.
Please contact us if you have front page or inside spreads to include in this gallery. We will need submissions in PDF format.
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Published December 30th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Media Landscape blog is on hiatus.
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Please share your media news over in the Media News forum.
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Torstar slashes 85 jobs in restructuring
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Canada’s largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Star, is eliminating 85 jobs as it restructures its newspaper division and more cuts may be on the way
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Newspaper Design Job of the day: Hartford
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Designer, The Hartford Courant
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Job of the Day: New York City
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NYTimes.com: Information Architect
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Job of the Day: Chicago
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Multimedia Producer - Crain Communications
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Last-minute gift idea: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke
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Author: Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of coding techniques to create effective design is difficult.
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
New York Times tabloid plans aimed at youth, will be free
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As The New York Times slowly works its way toward a narrower broadsheet in 2008, the paper has another new format in development: a tabloid for the younger generation.
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec20th2006
Scottish journalists launch a local MySpace
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The small Fife Herald newspaper in Scotland set up its own MySpace page and within weeks recruited some 400 new "friends." One staffer notes: "It's a totally untapped market for local papers, and it opens up new lines of communication," especially among y
Published December 20th, 2006
Dec19th2006
45 Take Buyouts at San Diego Union-Tribune
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The buyouts come as Copley Press, the Union-Tribune's parent company, has been seeking to sell its other newspaper holdings. On Friday, Hearst Corp. bought The (Torrance) Daily Breeze, Copley's Los Angeles-area daily paper
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
Ironic how Time's 'You' story illustrates how big media still doesn't understand new world.
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WSJ: Did they cede some of their coveted big media gatekeeper status and acknowledge the wisdom of the little guy? No. They decided to toss those (reader) results and do something completely different: a trend story.
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
Blogger protoyped TIME's 'YOU' cover back in October.
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Person of the year idea was tres obvious, (natch!) but blogger does elicit mad props for a pretty slick mockup of the cover and, of course, putting the guess right.
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
Chicago HQ to L.A. Times and all other TribCo properties . . .
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Um, CEO Dennis FitzSimons is NOT planning to lead a leveraged buyout of the company. Is everyone clear on that now?
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
MySpace makes foray into print | MediaGuardian.co.uk
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News Corp.'s MySpace will make its first move into print through a deal to turn an edition of U.K. style magazine Marmalade over to user-generated content. The March issue will feature cover-to-cover content submitted by MySpace users.
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
60 second analysis: Embedding Audio and Video in Text
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Comparing two evolving techniques to mash up multimedia on Web sites: Exhibit A - the NYT, Exhibit B - a Japanese fanzine.
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
Showdown looming for Tribune sale
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A group of TribCo executives led by CEO Dennis FitzSimons, together with a consortium of three private investment firms, are expected to enter a bid for Tribune and the Chandler Family has aligned with Yucaipa Cos. about making an an offer for some or all
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec19th2006
Reuters Offers Mobile Video, Pre-Roll Ads
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A total of 20 videos will be available on the site at any given time, and the mobile video will be "updated around the clock,"
Published December 19th, 2006
Dec18th2006
Tribune's Garage Sale
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Beachwood scribe handicaps valuations for TribCo's top properties.
Published December 18th, 2006
Dec18th2006
Digg a Pony
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Bad Beatles reference I know but check this; Digg does multimedia now - launching new video and podcasting features
Published December 18th, 2006
Dec18th2006
Journalism Job of the Month
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Chief of Bureau -- Chicago - The Associated Press - Chicago, IL
Published December 18th, 2006
Dec18th2006
TIME's Person of the Year is . . .
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You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.
Published December 18th, 2006
Dec16th2006
E&P: Studies Americans' Media Usage which is way up.
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The downside: Americans will spend more time on the web than they do with their newspapers.
Published December 16th, 2006
Dec16th2006
More publishers producing breezy PDF version of newspapers
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At the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily, its PDF edition is called Star PM, and at the Ottawa Citizen it goes by the name of RushHour. 12-pages, ad-supported and aimed at commters is model.
Published December 16th, 2006
Dec15th2006
Do we even NEED pros to cover spot news?
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Dan Gillmor wonders if tourists carrying mobile phones in spot news situations will spur the demise of the professional photojournalist. Is it a leap to make that conjecture? The photos that most untrained folks take are painfully unpublishable but there are some undeniable truths in the tech rends.
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Published December 15th, 2006
Dec15th2006
These new disruptions will reshape media for next decades
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To say that this (What Jimmy wales is launching) is a disruptive occurrence in Web content would be an understatement. And you thought Craig Newmark was rocking the boat.
Published December 15th, 2006
Dec15th2006
Key for mag publishers - Bring the IT expertise under editorial control
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“But it’s a lot of work, a lot of development work, and we need to do that work in our own contained team rather than relying on a centralized IT department to do everything for all of our publications.”
Published December 15th, 2006
Dec15th2006
Reporter: I saw the end coming 10 years ago . . .
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Even though I saw it coming, I find myself stunned that it actually did. And I’m outraged at the greed of the CEOs and companies that have brought us to this point.
Published December 15th, 2006
Dec15th2006
The New Sport Of Billionaires - Newspaper tycooning
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These are dangerous times for the tattered local newspaper. The moguls are descending.
Published December 15th, 2006
Dec15th2006
OJR: Top mistakes made by new online publishers
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People are ditching newspapers for the Web for a reason, and it ain't the ease of reading on a computer screen, or even to save 50 cents a day. Readers crave authoritative voices that can guide them through the information overload of modern life.
Published December 15th, 2006
Dec14th2006
News of the World To Use Bacode Tech For Mobile Content
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UK Tab will use barcode mobile-scanning technology to bring TV clips of English Premier League football to its readers via their mobile phones.
Published December 14th, 2006