Newspapers are the worst kind of Twitter followers. They’re un-engaging. They rarely, if ever, retweet. Their followers/following figures are forever skewed. As well, according to a new study, nine-tweets-out-of-ten are just re-spouted links and headlines from their own website.

Are newspapers missing the boat when it comes to Twitter?

A study by Pew Research, which focused on 13 major US news organisations, suggests that newspapers use Twitter in very limited ways—primarily as an added means to disseminate their own material. Read More »

A news sharing start-up called Ongo, which has raised $12m from USA Today publisher-Gannett, the New York Times Company and the Washtington Post Company.

It is headed by former eBay executive Alex Kazim, who previously ran defunct  blog aggregator Tokoni. At eBay he was a senior VP and president of Skype. Read More »

Hype for the Apple iPad will only be stoked by early positive reviews for the product, especially amongst heavy-hitter tech journalists for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today, who have been able to test the product a week before its release date.

Walt Mossberg at allthingsd marvelled at the device as a “new type of computer all together”.

Mossberg said: “You have to feel it, to use it, to fully understand it and decide if it is for you, or whether, say, a netbook might do better.” Read More »