• ManU Bans Electronic Devices From Old Trafford
    Manchester United have banned fans from bringing iPads and other tablets into Old Trafford. From the 2014/15 season onwards, supporters will not be able to take large electronic devices into the stadium, due to the growing trend of people recording the action and blocking the view for others.
  • La Stampa Editors Discuss Digital Innovation
    Before joining La Stampa as editor-in-chief, Mario Calabresi spent three years as the New York Correspondent for Italian daily La Reppublica. Half of that time was spent on the campaign trail of Barack Obama, travelling the country to document the build up to his election, while also taking the chance to learn from the experience of local US news organisations.
  • Future Names New Content & Marketing Team
    Future yesterday announced the new leadership team tasked with the development of its Content & Marketing strategy, under the leadership of Content & Marketing Director Nial Ferguson. The Content & Marketing team are responsible for the creation and development of the brands, audiences and market expertise within the games, technology, music, film, photography, creative & design verticals.
  • NPR App May 'Change The Game' For Radio
    American public broadcaster NPR is hoping to "find a new audience" with the launch of what one analyst has called a "very clever" personalised radio app. NPR One, on Android and iOS, combines on-demand news and feature material from the broadcaster's national operation with local content at partner stations and uses a recommendation algorithm to serve material based on listener interests.
  • Sun, Google Out To Teach UK Kids How To Code
    The joint venture will see The Sun run a number of features on the importance of coding and jointly host a Code Camp at Google's London HQ where children will learn how to code. Press Gazette understands that the joint initiative is not a commercial one (in the sense that no money has changed hands).
  • Sam Jones Is New Digital MD At Bauer Media
    This role will see him accelerate the transformation of the global media company's digital business, leveraging multi-platform assets across both the company's Lifestyle and Radio businesses with a consumer base of tens of millions across brands including heat, Grazia, KISS FM UK, Empire, Magic, Closer, Absolute Radio, The Box TV and recent digital-first launch The Debrief.
  • Lessons In Digital Storytelling, Audience Engagement
    The ability of history to repeat and reverberate across decades revealed itself in the project built around an interactive map that allows users to explore the geopolitical impacts of World War I. The Great War - a 100 year legacy of World War I, which was anchored at The New York Times Paris Bureau, is the product of inter-continental and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Key lessons from the project at the jump.
  • Gannett Intros Digital-centric Jobs; Newsquest Next?
    Gannett, the largest US newspaper publisher, has created new job titles for editorial staff along with revised descriptions of their duties, as Jim Romenesko reveals. He cites a series of job titles now on offer at one of Gannett's daily titles inFlorida, the Pensacola News Journal, which were leaked to him by a tipster who said the changes are to be standardised across all of the company's papers.
  • ESPN Puts Stamp On Digital-only Cricket Mag
    ESPN's digital cricket brand ESPNcricinfo has launched a digital-only magazine called The Cricket Monthly. The magazine is a separate and complementary content platform, written by the same editorial team behind ESPNcricinfo, and will each month explore the wider themes and cultures of cricket through long-form journalism, in-depth player profiles, features and interviews.
  • Daily Dot Brings Back Online Tech Magazine
    The title has retained its branding as The Kernel but has been reshaped into a topic-specific, weekly digital magazine with a branded content commercial proposition. Each edition has a single sponsor and the Daily Dot will use its in-house content agency to work with brands on the native advertising service.
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