• Trinity Mirror Unveils Integrated Newsroom Plans
    According to Trinity Mirror: The creation of the integrated newsroom will result in more journalists contributing more content across all platforms. The ambitious plans will be introduced over the coming months but the announcement sees the merger of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People editorial teams. New digital roles are also being created - including a technology editor, a social media editor, and a money section editor - and further investment in video, social and data journalism is also planned.
  • Last Of Media Moguls Throwing Last Roll Of Dice
    After a two-week hiatus that had some wondering if he'd gone for good,Rupert Murdoch is back on Twitter. "Sorry, I have been busy lately with many preoccupations!" he tweeted last Thursday, a day after it emerged what those preoccupations were. Murdoch had been organising the biggest deal of his storied career: an $80bn bid for Time Warner by 21st Century Fox, his entertainment conglomerate.
  • Print, Digital Figures To Be Mixed For Regionals
    From audit periods ending July 2014, regional publications will be able to report a combined print and digital edition figure on ABC regional publication certificates and in the published ABC regional publications report. The board said the changes are part of ABC's "vision" of giving buyers and publishers greater flexibility in the way they analyse and present ABC data across a growing number of platforms.
  • Snowden Says NSA Workers Share You Nudie Shots
    Yes, the government has probably seen any sexts or nude photos you've sent along to a significant other. If you believe the word of Edward Snowden, NSA employees regularly pass around intimate nude shots that are intercepted, along with endless amounts of other data, as part of the US government's vast surveillance efforts.
  • Germany Creating Nonprofit Investigative News Org
    While the United States' newspaper industry has faced more rapid disruption than any other country's, it's also benefited from the world's most vigorous nonprofit journalism sector. But with rapid changes affecting the German newspaper business, a new media startup there aims to bring the ProPublica approach abroad, creating the country's first nonprofit investigative news organization.
  • Search Engines Must Be Open About Delinking Processes
    Like it or not, Google and other search engines operating in Europe have to take down links to information about people if those people ask them to do so, provided there's no public-interest or other good reason for keeping the links up. Now we're in a stage of flux, where everyone's trying to figure out how to achieve this in the best way possible. In Germany, for example, there's talk of setting up new cyber courts to judge de-linking requests.
  • Digital Firms Should Hire More To Meet Demand
    Digital companies should hire more graduates and entry-level candidates in a bid to cash in on a soar in demand for junior digital roles, argues Bubble Jobs. Bubble Jobs, a niche digital jobs board, specialises in advertising online, eCommerce, media and digital marketing vacancies, reported a 22% increase in junior/graduate-level candidates signing up to the site in Q2 compared with the same period last year.
  • Guardian Taps New CEO For US Digital Edition
    Store joins from global media agency MEC where he most recently held the position of President, Agency Development, based in New York. He brings over 25 years of agency-side experience, accumulated on both sides of the Atlantic, and will play a key role as the Guardian strengthens its focus on its US business after an extremely successful 12 months.
  • Some Of The Great Twitter Reactions To Airbnb Logo
    Airbnb, the popular room sharing website, have unveiled their new logo, and the internet - as always - has some opinions on it. That's because it looks like... erm... let's say somewhere private. Some think that they did this deliberately to generate organic coverage: effortless digital marketing. Here's what the internet has to say.
  • Trinity Mirror Mergers Will Gain Digital Posts
    Trinity Mirror is merging its three national newspaper titles. A single newsroom will serve the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People. Eight senior editorial roles are in jeopardy and, according to a press release, the company is "now in consultation" with the affected staff. At the same time, new digital posts will be created, including a technology editor, social media editor and a money section editor. It is also planned to invest further in video, social and data journalism.
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