The Evolving Newsroom

New look coming for the UK Telegraph

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The UK Telegraph is close to showing off its redesign, which has been in planning for a good while. Martin Stabe spells out the changes (and has a few images) over at PressGazette.co.uk.

design, Telegraph

Telegraph sells ads at home and abroad

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Every now and again you read something and think 'about time'. This (via PaidContent) is one of those things: "After Mail Online’s about-turn, GMG’s GuardianAmerica.com launch and Times Online’s WSJ.com link-up, now the UK’s number-two online paper Telegraph.co.uk has decided to make money from the majority of its users that come from outside its native UK, giving AdGent 007 a license to sell its overseas ad inventory to international advertisers, NMA reports.

advertising, geo-targeting, overseas, Telegraph

Linking out ‘works’ for news sites

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Speaking of links, this is a nice little piece from a guy called David Eaves who has an SEO company in the UK. I won't pretend to be able to recreate the maths, but in essence he collected a few vital statistics for large mainstream websites - including incoming and outgoing links - threw them into an Excel spreadsheet and came up with a chart...

FT, linking out, links

Lack of links one reason for lukewarm
hyperlocal experiment

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Lack of links one reason for lukewarm <br />hyperlocal experiment

For those keeping an eye on the success or otherwise of hyperlocal websites, this is worth a read. It's a Wall Street Journal piece about the less-than-stellar debut of a Washington Post hyperlocal site called LoudounExtra.com.

hyperlocal, links, washington post

Claim your name online

Monday, July 14, 2008

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From Howard Owens comes a useful list of tips for journalists who want to ‘own their own names’ – ie get yourself, your CV, website and blog established and visible in Google searches: Get a Facebook profile going. Use it to link to your site. Start a LinkedIn profile (be sure to take advantage of [...]

links, name, search, students

Voicemail belongs in a museum

Sunday, July 13, 2008

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From the 'I'm glad it's not just me' files: Howard Owens writes that voicemail is dead, get over it already: "I’ve set up my work phone to forward to my iPhone. I never touch my desk phone except for conference calls.

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Wall Street Journal ‘nearly doubles’ audience

Thursday, July 10, 2008

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The Wall Street Journal is one of the few newspapers to keep some of its content behind a paywall online (meaning you have to subscribe to read some of the stories). This policy bucks the trend of recent years to offer everything free online for fear that your readers will just go elsewhere if you don't. A fair policy given that daily news outlets have relatively few points of difference from one another and there's no scarcity of news online.

paywalls, subscriptions, users, WSJ

See who’s doing what on Wikipedia

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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Here's a nice way to waste a little time. It's a map showing the latest edits to Wikipedia, what they were, who made them and where they're located. Thanks to NZBC for the link.

maps, visualisation, wikipedia

How to run the numbers on websites

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Type the url of any website into urlmetrix and you get instant numbers on what that site's Google page rank is, how many times it's been bookmarked to Del.icio.us, its Technorati rank, Compete rank, Google and Yahoo backlinks and more. Great fun punching in sites you know and seeing what comes up.

analytics, links, ranking, urlmetrix