Tag Archives: al jazeera

‘Website is where Al Jazeera audience comes for in-depth coverage

By Julie Starr | Published: March 8, 2011

Robert Hernandez has a Q&A up on his blog with Al Jazeera online producer Bilal Randeree. Hernandez introduces the piece thus: Without a doubt, the leading news organization covering the historic Middle East unrest is Al Jazeera. Available in limited markets here, their website has been the home for its impressive coverage. “We had figures that [...]

Covering Egypt – with fax, dial-up and speak-to-tweet

By Julie Starr | Published: February 1, 2011

A wrap of stories/posts looking at how recent unrest in Egypt has been covered by media and how technology old and new has been adapted to keep Egyptians connected with the rest of the world. Google enables speak-to-tweet service for Egypt Google Blog | Jan 31 Over the weekend we came up with the idea [...]

Posted in Featured, Journalism, Social Media | Also tagged #Egypt, bbc | 1 Comment

Links: China Daily hits Europe and the Washington Post, new ABCs for the UK, and a ‘Facebook’ newspaper

By Julie Starr | Published: December 10, 2010

United Kingdom: China Daily Launches European Edition Publicitas China Daily, China’s leading English-language newspaper, will appear as a new weekly edition on UK news stands from 3 December. The European edition will be distributed in the UK and from Brussels, building on China Daily’s aspiration to be a newspaper which provides a window for China to [...]

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Link wrap: NY Times, iTunes for news, Al Jazeera footage

By Julie Starr | Published: January 16, 2009

Michael Hirschorn ponders on the future of journalism and the New York Times' chance of survival in www.theatlantic.com:

The Web site, nytimes.com, boasted an impressive 20 million unique users for the month of October, making it the fifth-ranked news site on the Internet in terms of total visitors. (The October numbers were boosted by interest in the election, but still …) The print product, meanwhile, is sold to a mere million readers a day and dropping, and the Sunday print edition to 1.4 million (and also dropping). Print and Web metrics are not apples-to-apples, but it’s intuitively the case that the Web has extended The Times’ reach many times over.