Curation an important focus for news sites
A couple of interesting comments from Telegraph Media Group digital leader Edward Roussel about where their focus is for website growth.
A couple of interesting comments from Telegraph Media Group digital leader Edward Roussel about where their focus is for website growth.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Telegraph talks about its integrated web-and-print newsroom.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
From the Nieman Reports published by Harvard comes a piece written by Edward Roussel, the digital editor at Telegraph Media Group in London who manages telegraph.co.uk and was a prime mover in the Telegraph’s integrated newsroom project. It’s a worthwhile read as these excerpts demonstrate: Newspapers still tend to define themselves by their paper rather [...]
Sunday, January 11, 2009
I'd heard about this but hadn't followed up. So, via Jeff Jarvis, who wins headline of the week award for: Throw Another Sub on the Barbie. The Telegraph of London is outsourcing production of some of its sections to Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. At my New Business Models for News Summit, Telegraph digital head Edward Roussel rephrased my admonition and told the room to do what you do best and outsource the rest. Guess they mean it. The work will go to Pagemasters
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
This is a useful read for any journalist coming to terms with writing for the web and why that means understanding keywords and search engine optimisation. It was written by Shane Richmond, Communities Editor for telegraph.co.uk, for the British Journalism Review. The “Gotcha” headline on a Sun front-page splash about the sinking of the General Belgrano is one of the most famous, or infamous depending on your taste, in the history of British journalism. Yet no web producer with any experience would consider a headline like that today.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk has partnered with Wesabe on a co-branded site that lets users manage their money online. Here's one of the Telegraph's personal finance reporters giving it a spin, and here's the announcement from Wesabe.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
More from the web-to-print syndication files. Breakingviews.com, a financial analysis website set up by former FT journalism Hugo Dixon, has done a deal to supply branded content to both Telegraph Media Group and the New York Times. This is a Guardian report on the deal: The long-term deal struck by TMG will allow the group to publish analysis on financial events on Telegraph.co.uk and in the print edition of the Daily Telegraph, augmenting its existing business coverage.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I've been meaning to point to this for a while. It's a post from Justin Williams, workflow guru and assistant editor at Telegraph Media Group in the UK. He talks about the decline of the role of sub-editors, or rather an evolutionary blurring of the lines between what a sub, a news editor, commissioning editor and web editor does. "If I was a reporter now and an old hand sidled up to me and suggested that I might like to retrain as a sub, I’d run a mile. And as for joining one of the nationals’ subbing schemes for graduate trainees … fugeddaboutit."
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.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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