There’s no stopping the Huffington Post. Following its launch in the UK last week AOL has today unveiled two more sites.
It has launched a new celebrity site (HuffPost Celebrity) and a culture site (HuffPost Culture). Read More
Is the News of the World the first great newspaper casualty of the Twitter age? It is something that someone said last night and I’m pretty sure there is something in it.
While there are true direct casualties of the digital age, those papers and magazines killed off by falling circulation and falling revenues, that wasn’t true of the NotW, but gone it has all the same. Read More
Last week we heard about Guardian News & Media’s new strategy that it is calling “digital-first”, an admission that while print isn’t dead it is digital where the growth and future is.
Now we hear more details of that strategy and it is bad news as The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, says that the move will involve “significant” job cuts over the next two years. He made his announcement on the same day that the Huffington Post said it would launch in the UK on July 6 and will no doubt be gunning for a slice of the Guardian’s traffic (not to mention the Daily Mail’s).
As we wrote back in April the MailOnline has speeded by the Huffington Post to become the world’s second largest digital ‘newspaper (The anatomy of a Daily Mail homepage).
Associated Newspapers did this partly by taking Huffpo’s clothes and by ensuring that the MailOnline bears little relation to its printed counterpart. Just take a look at today’s two covers. They are worlds apart. Read More
The big message coming from 
Facebook is that companies that manage to put what they call social design at the heart of their business will beat those that don’t.
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, talked about this at length in her recent speech at the London School of Economics (LSE). While her talk failed to answer many of the questions Facebook faces (leading many to focus instead on Sandberg’s superb delivery), social design was one concept that was communicated eloquently and, more importantly, carried intellectual weight. Read More
Last year The Guardian wrote a piece on how the jury was still out on hyperlocal and almost a year later that remains truer than ever. No more so than for The Guardian itself, which slipped out last week when so many were away that it is to close its own pilot Guardian Local.
However, that might not be quite the end of the story according to a post on Media Briefing and other initiatives at The Guardian. Read More
Way back when (okay so last June) there was, and still is, considerable buzz about Tumblr particularly among the media brands that were turning to it. There was talk that The New York Times was also getting on the Tumblr bandwagon.
While it parked a page nothing in the the end there was no New York Times Tumblr. Well at least until now. With its paywall launched it has unveiled its first Tumblr blog, which will be the first of a number. Read More
A little while ago I asked the question will your next CV be an infographic? A lot of you liked that post as it was widely shared. If you haven’t already heard by now the answer is a big fat yes courtesy of Chris Spurlock.
A couple of weeks after I asked that question Spurlock saw his infographic resume (below) go viral after appearing on the Huffington Post’s college site, HuffPost College. The next step? Huffpo hired the journalism gradate to design infographics. Nice job. Read More
As Twitter passes one billion tweets a week founder Biz Stone is join AOL as a “social impact adviser”. Nice title. No he isn’t leaving Twitter. He is clearly having way too much of a good time helping to run the business. What he is going to do is advise AOL “on cause-based initiatives” and “philanthropy”.
The idea is to take some of the lessons he’s learnt working with good causes such as Charity:Water and Product RED and inject that into AOL, but can you really change a corporate culture like that? Read More
While traditionalists worry about the impact the digital era is having on journalism and publishing, they should be assured that the literary spat, at least, remains alive and well.
The latest writers to air their gripes in public are New York Times editor Bill Keller and Arianna Huffington, author of The Female Woman and founder of the Huffington Post, largely over the issue of news aggregation and to what degree Huffington Post provides original content.
Arianna Huffington: robust defence
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