InPublishing
Forty editorial jobs across the Telegraph Media Group are being created as the business makes a significant new investment in quality journalism. These new positions centre on strengthening the Telegraph's original reporting, with significant new investments in investigative reporting, data journalism, interactive tools, and video production.
The Drum
ITN Productions has launched the first in a series of World Cup-themed online discussion panels to engage football fans from the media world and showcase the broadcaster's ability to produce branded content with short notice. Over the next few weeks, a fast turnaround production team from ITN will tour media agencies to create a mini-series of discussion panels throughout the competition.
Gigaom
Courts in Europe have been forcing Google to scrub embarrassing search results, and now one in Canada has made an even broader ruling: it ordered the search engine to delete websites not only from the Canadian version of Google, but across the world as well. The decision is part of an alarming trend of disappearing online information.
The Drum
Time Out Group has appointed Livefyre to implement its real-time social tools globally in a bid to increase user-generated content and native advertising opportunities. Livefyre's LiveReviews applications allows users to interact with Time Out sites through blogging opportunities and social integration.
Gigaom
Specifically, the Court of Justice of the European Union will need to decide whether the Irish data protection commissioner was right to decline an investigation into Facebook's transfer of Europeans' data to its U.S. data centers. The commissioner said these transfers were legal under the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor agreement, established back in 2000, so he didn't have to investigate further.
Press Gazette
The launch of a mobile-optimised website for The Telegraph just over a week ago has already led to a 50 per cent increase in mobile traffic. Press Gazette understands that before the launch of the new mobile version of Telegraph.co.uk on 9 June the site was averaging 1m users per day on mobile. Since then insiders believe it has increased to an average of 1.5m a day.
Journalism.co.uk
Though legacy organisations may be well practiced in producing newspapers and online stories, it is "much more difficult to integrate new considerations into that system," noted Lucia Adams, deputy head of digital at The Times and The Sunday Times. Doing so takes "extra time and extra expertise," she added. Here are five pieces of advice.
Melville House Publishing
Google Play Bookslaunched in Norway about two weeks ago. There's just one problem: uh, no Norwegian titles arecurrently available in the Google Play store. That's because the biggest publishers in Norway,Aschehoug, Gyldendaland Cappelen Damm, aren't interested in working with Google.
Variety
The 2014 FIFA World Cup is still in its opening round, but the soccer tourney has already broken the record for peak amount of online-video streaming bandwidth as delivered by Akamai Technologies, and also set new high-water marks for ESPN's and Univision's digital-video services. Monday's Germany-Portugal match drove a peak of 4.3 terabits per second of streaming video on Akamai's content-delivery network, blowing past the previous high of 3.5 Tbps as measured for the U.S.-Canada men's hockey semifinal during the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Drum
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a 'recommended links' promotion for failing to make clear that linked-to articles were paid for by advertisers. The ruling against content distribution business Outbrain has added fresh fuel to the debate on native advertising content and its relationship with editorial.