Media UK

Amazon Kindle adds Financial Times and Times
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 12.38pm
The Financial Times and the Times are now available as e-newspapers on Amazon’s Kindle. The partnership means electronic and automatically updated editions of the papers will now be accessible via the Kindle. Editions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and the Irish Times are also available on the device. Earlier this year the US [...] (more)

Guardian relaunches blogs and commenting features
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 12.25pm
The Guardian is moving its blogs onto its new platform, bringing them in line with the rest of the recently redesigned site. The move will be completed in two stages starting with 14 titles, including its Lost in Showbiz and news blogs, an announcement on the Inside Guardian blog said. The remaining sites will move over [...] (more)

Editor's tribute to leukaemia reporter
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 20 2008, 12.20pm
Daily Examiner chief Roy Wright pays homage to Adrian Sudbury's legacy (more)

Online Journalism Scandinavia: Norway’s Journalisten - a role model for UK journalism trade titles?
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 11.29am
Kristine Lowe asks, is there a business model in covering the media for the media?: (Disclaimer: Kristine works part-time for the Norwegian journalism magazine and website Journalisten and has previously contributed to Press Gazette and NA24 Propaganda) Recording the miserable state of our industry, and listening to experts predicting its imminent death, is a daily plight for [...] (more)

Examiner journalist Adrian Sudbury loses battle with leukaemia
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 20 2008, 11.10am
Brave reporter who fought for bone marrow education died at home today (more)

New online competition for aspiring journalists
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 20 2008, 10.00am
YouTube appeals to young news hounds, football legend signs up with regional press ? and more news in brief (more)

Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - optimise urls for search engines
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 9.55am
Online publishing: When choosing a content management system or blogging software, make sure it can include headlines in the article page's URL. It is more memorable than strings of numbers and good for search engine optimisation too. Tipster: Laura Oliver To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. (more)

Business newspaper roundup: August 20
From Daily Telegraph. Posted August 20 2008, 9.32am
A glance at the leading stories from the financial pages of today's newspapers (more)

Mecom profits plunge amid Danish paper battle
From The Times. Posted August 20 2008, 9.05am
Intense competition in Denmark's newspaper market prompted a 63 per cent slump in operating profits in the country for Mecom, the Northern European newspaper group run by David Montgomery. (more)

Mecom faces 'challenging' market
From Financial Times. Posted August 20 2008, 8.34am
The newspaper group reported a 3 per cent fall in like-for-like operating profits and said it planned to transform its business model (more)

A new definition of media
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 8.32am
(Vera Alves works as a journalist in New Zealand and has been blogging for quite some time. She recently started a new “journalism only” blog at http://verahasawebsite.com/blog.) The young generations grew up in a world where media is totally different to what it was for our parents and the generations before them. Like any social change, [...] (more)

Freesheet Publisher Declared Bust
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted August 20 2008, 7.50am
Six, free local newspapers - all but one operating in Glasgow - have been shut down after its publisher yesterday was declared bust. Premier Publishing - the brainchild of a former magazine publisher at The Herald, Campbell Murdoch - was only recently winning plaudits and at least one industry... (more)

August 2008 Summary: Oi, move it!
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 20 2008, 12.15am
Not since Usain Bolt’s chest-thumping 100m victory has anything got off to such flying start as the TNTJ blog ring. But, unlike Usain’s historic win, we still have it all to do — so keep those entries coming. We’re doing our best to get them approved and posted as quick as we can. So far, we’ve had [...] (more)

Britain's biggest private companies: The raw materials of everyday life
From Daily Telegraph. Posted August 20 2008, 12.01am
Many of Britain’s biggest companies are now in private hands, and The Daily Telegraph is profiling 100 of the most successful in a two-week series. Today, David Litterick runs his rule over the main players in commodities and resources. (more)

Mecom takes a bet on gambling
From Daily Telegraph. Posted August 20 2008, 12.01am
Former News of the World editor David Montgomery is rolling out gambling and social networking across the websites of his European local newspaper group, Mecom, in the wake of an advertising slump and losses of £19.7m. (more)