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10.03.08How the Guardian, Times and Independent are all happy to rip off other sites’ contentAt least guardian.co.uk now attributes the stories it merrily rips off from other websites after Roy Greenslade wrongly suggested that the Telegraph was busy scraping rivals' pages for content. Today, the Telegraph carries an exclusive story about comments made by the British ambassador to the US, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, about the supposed aloofness of Barack Obama. The Guardian ripped the story off at just after midnight: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/03/uselections2008.barackobama2 The Times scraped it soon after with no attribution: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4871276.ece The Independent ripped it off - unattributed - at 1am and, in a nice touch, also ripped off the Telegraph's resume of Sir Nigel's career: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-is-uninspiring-says-british-ambassador-to-america-949853.html Related posts:guardian.co.uk’s extraordinary effort ...
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09.25.08This is not blogging, Roy. It’s execrable tittle tattleI'm becoming increasingly intrigued by Roy Greenslade's idea of blogging and his apparent willingness to publish any old bit of tittle tattle emailed to him by two or three Telegraph journalists with axes to grind. His latest ''contribution'' to the debate about the future of journalism at the Telegraph Media Group is unworthy of him. Perhaps Roy, if you had bothered to check a few facts or were more in touch with what's going on in the real world you might have paused before publishing. Continue Reading... Related posts:How the Guardian, Times and Independent are all happy to rip off other sites’ ...
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09.15.08Northcliffe to launch 45 hyperlocal websitesMediaguardian reports that Northcliffe is to launch 45 hyperlocal "This is" websites to go alongside the 106 it currently publishes. The question is: will they be allowed to publish the splash of the local paper that Northcliffe currently serves the area with? Related posts:The Thanet Gazette - will the last journalist to leave, please turn out the lights? Jeff Jarvis recounts how the Philadelphia Inquirer has decided to...Local newspapers - stability pays From Parrett & Neves to Emap to Adscene to Denitz...The future is bleak for Britain’s local weekly newspapers Mark Pinsky's piece in Media Guardian today is a sanguine... Related posts ...
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07.25.08Let’s make our news sites simpler … not more complicatedThere have been four UK newspaper websites relaunches in the last week or so - telegraph.co.uk, sun online, mirror.co.uk and some more bits of guardian.co.uk. And all of them show that despite the PR about integrated newsrooms, web-first publishing and the abandoning of old business models, the newspaper mindset is alive and well at our primary information gatherers. With the exception of the Telegraph, all of them have made their summary, section or index pages (the front pages, the news page, the sports page etc) more complex. The Mirror and The Sun are particularly good examples of this. [caption id="attachment_74" align="aligncenter" width="300" ...
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07.24.08How much did it cost the Guardian to reclaim the website top spot?[caption id="attachment_54" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Guardian website has regained the top spot with amazing growth"][/caption] You can't help but shout 'pots and kettles' when you read that the Guardian has regained the UK newspaper website top spot by breaking the 20 million visits barrier for June. It was only two months ago that the digital head at Guardian News and Media, Emily Bell, was crying foul over the Telegraph's amazing rise to number one with record-breaking growth. GMG bloggers did their best to try to pick holes in the Telegraph's figures by suggesting that the group had somehow done something behind ...
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