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Mail Online reveals the sites it's chasing in the United States
An interesting post over on Forbes.com which comes with an equally interesting Powerpoint slide from the people running Mail Online. On the slide, below, the Daily Mail's uber successful – that is,...
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So who in news knows how to use Tumblr?
Marissa Mayer promises not to screw it up. The Yahoo! chief has just paid over $1bn for Tumblr so she’s probably entitled to do what she likes with it. While there are said to be 110 million bloggers...
View ArticleLike Twitter before, Vine is worth your attention
Where its social networking rivals are all bells and whistles, Twitter is a lowest common denominator platform. At 140 characters the creativity is in the application of the technology, not the...
View ArticleThe Times, paywalls and social media
When your journalism is behind a paywall how do you make social media work for you? It’s a conundrum The Times and The Sunday Times have been wrestling with ever since the two papers went down the paid...
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The BBC, tablets and a refusal to pay for digital news
When you start from a low base all progress looks impressive, all growth appears steep. If that sounds like a churlish way to interpret the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2013 findings that show...
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The BBC passes mobile landmark. And that matters why?
An interesting nugget from Sarah Marshall over at journalism.co.uk who reports that, for the first time, more people visited the BBC website via mobile phones than desktop and laptop PCs. It happened...
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Why invest in a news app when readers would rather visit a mobile-friendly...
“Eighty per cent of mobile time is spent on apps.” It is a statistic I’ve heard quoted more than once over the last week. It’s been used to make the case for news-based mobile and tablet apps; evidence...
View ArticleHow to make journalism work online: Five writing tips
Writing for the web is exactly the same as writing for print. It’s also completely different. The trick is knowing which rules from the older medium still apply and which don’t. Here’s my starter for...
View ArticleWhat New York Times teaches us about Twitter. And what it doesn’t
It’s becoming an annual event. Each January, the social media team at the New York Times takes a look back at the past 12 months on Twitter and shares some of the lessons learned. Mostly, the advice is...
View ArticleDoes it matter if no one comes to your website? A thought experiment courtesy...
Last week Jay Lauf, the publisher of business news site Quartz, invited us to engage in a thought experiment. What would you do, he asked, if no one came to your site to read what you had written,...
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