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France: Les Echos to launch e-paper edition - The e-paper version of the business daily Les Echos is to be launched commercially in April. After some early failures of ‘the paper of the future’, Les Echos strikes back with a concrete project, in which it would be manufacturer, editor and distributor.
Blogs boost newspapers - You thought blogs killed quality journalism? Well, in any case, research from Nielsen/NetRatings suggests that the inclusion of blogs has revitalized newspapers’ websites – traffic to blogs grew 210% last year.
Know your web audience - Here’s another tip to easily increase both your audience and your knowledge of their likes: produce daily reports ranking the web hits generated by your stories, so you’ll know exactly what the readers want to read and what they don’t.
New online journalism glossary - The Online Journalism Review (OJR) is putting up a wiki, an online news glossary, with definitions of online journalism and web publishing terms. Useful to all, from students’ dissertations to professional journalists.
UK: name changes reflect future of newspapers - The Northcliffe Newspaper Group is changing its name to Northcliffe Media Limited in order to reflect its future orientation towards multimedia. A name change that’s symbolic of the entire industry.
Writing an article the Google way - UK newspapers are teaching their reporters how to write articles. How so? By writing in ways that show up at the top of search results from Google and other search engines. This is a look at how the online news portal oligarchy is concretely changing journalism.
Wikio, European news search engine - Google News, Digg and Newsvine have a lesser known European cousin: Wikio. Originally designed in French, Wikio is available in German, Italian, Spanish and in a US version.
Social networking could charge - According to a report by Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, social networking websites such as MySpace could start charging some of their users in 2007.
AFP partners with France 24, stepping into multimedia - The international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has signed a partnership agreement with the new 24-hour international TV news channel, France 24. The AFP will provide France 24 with newswires, audio and video reports, and multimedia products.
UK: BBC plans to provide journalism training to the public - Following Monday’s launch of their in-house journalism training website, the BBC plans to make the site more widely available to the public.
UK: Newspapers face tough competition for Google search terms -
UK: Telegraph stops blog - A wave of criticism from readers came into the Telegraph regarding an article on Saddam Husseins hanging by a senior US correspondent, Toby Harnden.
Bloggers gain press credit - For the first time in a federal court, during the trial of US Vice President’s former chief of staff set to open next week, journalists won’t be the only ones to occupy the press seats. Two of the 100 press seats will be reserved for bloggers. Another step towards the convergence of bloggers and journalists?
Huffington Post hires BBC journalist - The Huffington Post, a US political blog mixing opinion and reports, hired Elinor Shields, BBC journalist, to serve as its managing editor. This move falls in line with what seems to be the new – and reverse – trend of established reporters migrating to online ventures.
US: WaPost hosts blogger meeting - The Washington Post is reaffirming once again its top-of-the-line position in online operations and marketing. It hosted on Jan. 9 a meeting inviting all D.C. bloggers in its headquarters, to discuss how they could contribute.