The New Orleans Times-Picayune did not publish today, offering only an Internet edition while struggling to find a location to print Louisiana’s largest newspaper.
One consolation for reporters and editors is that it’s not clear how many people would have a chance to read the 260,000-circulation paper.
“Things are so bad in the city that there are no ways to get copies of the paper to anyone anyway,” said Mark Schleifstein, the environmental reporter and hurricane expert drafted into duty as the paper’s spokesman in the crisis. “The water is continuing to rise and people are pouring out of the city.”
The 168-year-old newspaper continued to publish stories and photos on its website nola.com while its publisher and managers scrambled to find an alternative site to print its daily edition.
From Latimes.com. Link
The Media Sustainability Index provides a comprehensive analysis of media development over the past four years in 20 Eastern European and Central Asian countries. Published by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the index analyses freedom of expression, media pluralism, professional journalism standards, business sustainability of media and the effectiveness of institutions that support independent media.
Visit: http://www.irex.org/msi/index.asp
From IFEX Weekly newsletter
A new Freedom House study has found that democratic transitions led by non-violent civic coalitions lead to far better results for freedom than top-down initiatives by elites. “How Freedom is Won” analyses 67 countries that have undergone transitions from authoritarian rule since 1972.
The study examines four key characteristics of each transition - the societal forces driving it, the strength of non-violent civic resistance, the level of violence and the sources of that violence - to determine how successful transitions to democracy are achieved. The findings suggest that policy makers should offer support to nascent civic resistance movements in order to foster democratic change.
The publication can be downloaded from Freedom House’s website:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/specreports/civictrans/FHCIVICTRANS.pdf
From IFEX weekly newsletter
While browsing eBay.com for the story below I found this:
A huge used off-set press from Korea for printing newspapers. Starting bid is US $4,500,000.00 - seller will ship worldwide and he prefers Paypal …
Link to auction
If you rather like a newer model I´ll suggest the mean Diamondstar 90.
THE first edition of a 300-year-old Edinburgh newspaper has appeared for sale on an internet auction site.
The Edinburgh Courant, which was published in February 1705, was one of the first newspapers in Britain and the Capital’s main source of local information.
The paper was a forerunner of the Evening News, and it is believed Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe was its editor in the early 18th century. The rare first copy is being sold by an Australian collector on eBay, and experts say it could fetch more than £400.
Link to the auction at Ebay.com
From Scotsman.com
Link to the first newspaper in Scandinavia
This is Berry: Internet Advertiser Wakeup Day
Now here’s a project that receives my deepest sympathy. The Internet Advertiser Wakeup Day.
It targets the top ten Newspapers that use free subscriptions for free articles and the signers promis to create one or more fake accounts on the date November 13ht 2005.
I’m signing it. Maybe you should too.
To: Internet advertisers
Dear internet advertisers,
We, the undersigned, wish to demonstrate the pointless nature of forced web site registration schemes and the dubious demographic data they collect.
On November 13th we will each register an account using fake details at one or more of these top 10 offending sites:
www.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com
www.latimes.com
www.ajc.com
www.chicagotribune.com
www.dallasnews.com
www.nypost.com
www.baltimoresun.com
www.philly.com
www.mercurynews.com
Sign up here. Link
The best newspapers in USA that still have at least some free content you don´t have to sign up to get.
In China they follow the trend about participatory journalism - but in a slightly twisted way. Journalist will from this week be payed by a a point system that gives bonus if government leaders likes a particular story.
Li Datong, veteran editor of the outspoken China Youth Daily, wrote an open letter to the staff questioning a new appraisal system linking journalists’ salaries to party praise, reports Asia Media. The letter of Li Datong, who is editor of Bingdian Weekly, a supplement running investigative stories every Wednesday, was posted on the popular chat room Yannan BBS, writes Asia Media.
In his “unusual show of dissent against the communist party’s iron grip over the media” (AFP), Li Datong argues that the new system threatens editorial freedom: “Under such an uncivilised and unreasonable system, provided that editors and journalists have not gone mad, who on earth would still want to write reports which keep officials in check?” he asked. According to AFP, the appraisal system, that is planned to be implemented this week, works as follows:
“Reporters would be awarded 300 points for stories praised by central government leaders, 120 points for those praised by the Communist Party Propaganda Department and 100 points for those praised by party officials. But by the same standard, reporters will receive negative points for writing stories that are criticised by these officials.”
The new editor-in-chief of China Youth Daily, Li Erliang, took over in December in a reshuffle regarded as a sign of a tightening of media controls by the authorities”, states Asia Media.
From Editors Weblog Newsletter, link to entire story.
Newspaperindex´ list of chinese newspapers.
Ministry of Information and Communications in Nepa, has claimed that FM radios cannot enjoy press freedom as guaranteed in Article 13 of the Constitution of Nepal 1990, urging the apex court to legitimize its curbs on news broadcast by independent radios.
Minister for Information and Communications, Tanka Dhakal, and Secretary Lok Man Singh Karki, said this in letters on Sunday. The letters were written in response to the apex court’s show cause notice on August 10, to the minister and secretary regarding their warning that the operating license of Nepal FM would be seized on the charge of airing news. The court had stayed the action against the radio station saying it was related to the people’s right to be informed.
“Press freedom is limited to the press [newspapers] only,” both Dhakal and Karki have argued in the letters.
Link to The Kathmandu Post
A new eMarketer report forecasts strong gains for the online newspaper industry, and examines the factors that are driving growth.
“Online publishers are posting consistently strong — indeed, extraordinary — financial results. Among the strongest are the online operations of traditional newspapers,” says Ezra Palmer, Editorial Director at eMarketer and author of a new report, Online Publishing: Focus on Newspapers.
“The online newspaper industry reached a benchmark in 2004: $1 billion in revenues, the majority from advertising,” says Mr. Palmer. Still there is a long way to go to reach the advertising giants on the Internet:
“The $1 billion mark is no small achievement, but it was passed long ago by portals. Yahoo!, Google, AOL and MSN alone generate more than eight times as much advertising revenue as the entire online newspaper industry.”
There is an free excerpt of the report online here.
BurrellesLuce has released the 2005 ranking chart featuring the circulation of the top 100 daily newspapers in the United States. The unique chart, which is included with the current issue of the BurrellesLuce Media Report, is available free of charge as a resource for professionals in the public relations, corporate communications and investor relations industries, the company announced today. The data was compiled by BurrellesLuce from the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ figures for the six months ended March 31, 2005.
Here is the top ten list:
1. USA Today 2,199,052
2. The Wall Street Journal 1,888,621
3. The New York Times 1,121,623 1,680,582
4. Los Angeles Times 907,997 1,253,849
5. Washington Post 740,947 1,000,565
6. New York Daily News 708,773 835,121
7. New York Post 652,149 455,511
8. Chicago Tribune 563,996 953,814
9. Houston Chronicle 527,744 720,711
10. Dallas Morning News 477,493 655,809
Get the top 100 as Pdf.
An unidentified software virus was being blamed for computer system outages on Tuesday at ABC News, CNN and the New York Times, as computer security companies tried to pin down the cause of the disruption. CNN, breaking into regular programming, reported on air that personal computers running Windows 2000 at the cable news network were affected by a worm that caused them to restart repeatedly. Over the last week, Microsoft Corp. and security companies warned of a new worm, called “Zotob,” that could allow an attacker to access PCs by exploiting a recently discovered flaw in Windows 2000. But security software company McAfee Inc. and Microsoft said that they did not see any heightened activity from Zotob on Tuesday.
Source: Reuters
You just have to see this flash movie.
It tells the story of the media revolution that began in 2004 and ends in 2014 when The New York Times has gone offline. What happened to the news? What is the EPIC? -And did we really want the monster of a mediascape we created?
Superb production, thanks!
Link
The Reuters Foundation has launched what it claims is Iraq’s first “independent and commercially viable” news agency.
The foundation, funded by Reuters, established an online “news exchange” last year. Called www.aswataliraq.info (Voices of Iraq) it was set up as a way for Iraqi freelances to share stories.
Thanks Pressgazette.co.uk!
Print more copies and make the advertisers pay..
Denver’s two daily newspapers are bulking up declining paid circulation by aggressive use of auditing rules that let them count readers who pay less than half-price for the papers — or sometimes nothing at all.
It’s being done, advertising and newspaper industry experts say, to justify advertising rates that show no signs of coming down — despite a 36 percent drop in the combined daily circulation of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News since the two papers combined business operations in 2001.
On an average weekday, more than 13 percent — or about 71,650 copies daily — of the “paid” circulation claimed by the Post and News is distributed in bulk to hotels, restaurants and other locations or delivered to selected addresses — often at no cost to the recipient.
Read the entire story by By Amy Bryer The Denver Business Journal, via MSNBC.
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From: IPI Death Watch 2005
Sudanese authorities banned two independent newspapers Saturday for their coverage of the three days of deadly riots that followed the death of southern leader John Garang, their management said.
Khartoum State security officials raided the presses of the Al-Watan and Alwan newspapers at dawn and confiscated the entire print run, staff said.
Al-Watan deputy editor Mustafa Abul Azim said his paper might have been banned because of an editorial criticizing the governor of Khartoum for his handling of the riots.
The editorial accused the governor of not responding promptly or with adequate force to quell the violence that erupted after Garang’s death in a helicopter crash last Saturday.
Southerners, convinced that the crash was no accident, looted and vandalized businesses and property owned by northern Arabs. More than 110 people died in the capital alone.
The website of Al-Watan used to be here: http://www.alwatan-sudan.net
Alwan can be found here: http://www.do7a.com/
Other Sudanese online newspapers
Disney Channel on hold in China
China will forbid any new foreign-owned TV channels from entering the country, according to a report on Wednesday, expanding an industry clampdown and placing plans by Disney and Viacom on indefinite hold. Analysts said the latest curb could be a reaction to the accelerating expansion of foreign participation in local media, in a country where the media is traditionally more a propaganda tool than a form of entertainment.
China
“will not again allow a foreign satellite TV station to have landing rights in the country,”
the official Xinhua news agency said, citing new rules from domestic regulators. Regulators said the new rules were designed to strengthen oversight of the industry while the government
“finds ways to regulate and effectively control (existing foreign media in the market) to prevent harmful programmes from entering.”
Scandinavian programmers are in for serius innovation when it comes to controversial and groundbreaking killer applications. Remember DVD-Jon, Skype, ORDB.org and Infostill.com?
This time a new webapplication has seen the daylight. Worldforum.dk is a webbased forum user can apply to any website. The owner of the websites has absolutely no control over the forum that will open in a pop-up upon request. This blog might even have a worldforum that is more popular than my writings.
All you have to do is to sign up at www.worldforum.dk, place one link in your bookmarks you are ready to go. Whenever you enter a website you can enter the sites forum, or create one, by clicking your worldforum-bookmark.
Problems seems to be critical mass, spam and we might see some legal controversies as well.
Yahoo to offer CNN, ABC video feeds
Yahoo has signed deals with CNN.com and ABC News to expand the content it offers, the company said Monday. Under the agreements, daily video feeds from the two media companies will be available on Yahoo, starting in September. The news feeds will be supported by advertising and will be free to consumers. CNN news feeds will include domestic and global news, while ABC News feeds will feature the day’s top news stories as well as entertainment and political commentary. The agreement with ABC is an extension of a distribution deal with CBS Yahoo broadband subscribers, Yahoo said. Other traditional broadcasters are also expanding their online presence. Recently, CBS announced that its news Web site will feature footage not shown on television broadcasts.
Source: Dinesh C. Sharma, CNET News.com
Via: Society of Professional Journalists.
The number of newspaper titles registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) is 60,374. Hindi tops the list with 24,000 titles followed by English with 8778. Marathi is placed next with 3380 titles whereas Urdu with 3079 titles occupies 4th position. 3862 of the registered papers are bilinguals. Of all the registered titles, 6529 are dailies, 20814 are weeklies and 17818 monthlies.
There are 7367 titles, pending as on 25.07.2005 for registration for want of required documents.
Source: Press Information Bureau of India
The most important newspapers in India
