http://www.mediauk.com/ Press news feed en-gb This compilation copyright 1994-2008 Media UK; individual stories with contributors Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:00:20 +0100 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:00:20 +0100 http://www.mediauk.com/article/4733 Media UK wizardry admin@mediauk.com 15 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk:80/news/080718roundup.shtml Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:20:03 +0100 Our weekly round-up of what's been making the news on HoldtheFrontPage this week http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46826 http://rss.holdthefrontpage.co.uk:80/news080719death.shtml Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:10:04 +0100 Tragic loss hits group's North West division http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46825 http://rss.holdthefrontpage.co.uk:80/news/080719burnham.shtml Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:10:03 +0100 Backbenchers call for help for the regional press http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46824 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3931ad4-552b-11dd-ae9c-000077b07658.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0100 The ghost of Robert Maxwell returned to haunt investors in Trinity Mirror this week. By Wednesday lunchtime, shares in the newspaper group had plunged 40 per cent in... http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46817 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/decee932-552a-11dd-ae9c-000077b07658.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0100 With the obvious exception of a few august publications - the FT clearly being an example - I reckon investors get a raw deal when it comes to research material. There... http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46819 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article4359545.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=1185799 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:13 +0100 A decade ago I was young, babyish even by youthful standards, and working on a very serious financial newspaper, a state of affairs I handled by regularly sending spoof electronic messages from colleagues' computers. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46812 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/19/greenpolitics.discriminationatwork?gusrc=rss&feed=media Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:07:53 +0100 She was a feminist pioneer, then a Fleet Street editor. Now she's an organic farmer and 'desperate' to work for Boris Johnson. Just who is Rosie Boycott, asks Decca Aitkenhead http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46814 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a6810/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:39:42 +0100 We like a good map here at Journalism.co.uk, so find below a screengrab of Gloucestershire magazine SoGlos.com's interactive listings map: The map allows you to search SoGlos' listings by category - as many as you like can be plotted on the map at one time - and by keyword search. http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46806 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a62b3/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:28:53 +0100 We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. So how about a search engine for the media? Welcome Mediageeks.org. 1) Who are you and what's it all about? I'm Howard Owens, I've been doing online media for 13 years [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46807 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a579d/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:54:48 +0100 Speaking at yesterday's preview of the Telegraph.co.uk redesign, both chief information officer Paul Cheesbrough and digital editor Edward Roussel said the new site was aimed at 'deeper engagement' with users. Both declined to comment on whether the new site would bring success in terms of ABCe figures, even suggesting the amount of content/page views per user [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46804 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a2f09/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:31:03 +0100 "These newspaper reporters should stick to what they are good at, namely creating a newspaper, be it online or in print," the head of press for Norwegian rock festival Rootsfestivalen, told paper Brönnöysunds Avis (BA). The local paper was the first Norwegian mainstream newspaper ever to go online back in 1996, but PR man Dagfinn Torgersen, [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46798 http://rss.holdthefrontpage.co.uk:80/news/080718roundup.shtml Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:50:02 +0100 Our weekly round-up of what's been making the news on HoldtheFrontPage this week http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46783 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a0f8d/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:15:16 +0100 The University of Florida is to build a new journalism training centre aimed at new methods of storytelling using digital and new media. The Center for Media Innovation and Research (CIMR) will experiment with multimedia storytelling on different platforms and test their effectiveness, a release from the university said. "News media of all types are struggling with [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46792 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a09e1/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:01:58 +0100 Niche online publisher LOUD3R is to launch a series of new sites, as part of its plans to create 10 new websites a month on its network. The new additions include: PREGG3R, for pregnancy; SHUTT3R, for photography; and SUMM3R, for the Olympics. The semantic engine automatically aggregates and filters multimedia content from a 'source list' of websites [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46793 http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/17a03cd/story01.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:14 +0100 The Liverpool Daily Post is embarking on a four day liveblog to cover the visit of the Tall Ship to the Mersey using CoveritLive. Following previous Post experiments with the liveblogging tool, the blog will feature text, images and videos from the event sent by the reporting team. The paper is also asking readers to submit comments [...] http://www.mediauk.com/rss_newsfeeds.muk/46785