Posted by
Press Gazette
on 9 February 2012 at 14:27
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers
The Evening Standard is the latest title to launch a new app for iPhones and Android devices.
ES:GO is a free app which provides recommendations for restaurants, bars, clubs, theatre, arts and entertainment.
Full details in the press release below: (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 8 February 2012 at 15:13
Tags: Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Online
The Sun has launched a new app for iPhones and Android devices which it is selling for £4.99 a month.
The app, which has an introductory price of 69p for 30 days, includes live football scores, a Sun Scan button to access extra content by scanning QR codes in the paper and access to extra video content. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 31 January 2012 at 10:09
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Online
Magazine Golwg has launched what it claims to be the first ever app for a Welsh language title.
Ap Golwg is available to download on the iPad, iPhone and iPod and allows users buy a digital version of the weekly title, which includes additional video and sound content.
The digital magazine - which was was developed with the support of the Wales Books Council - can be bought by either a 12-month, 6-month or 3-month subscription package or for £1.49 per copy.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 4 January 2012 at 11:01
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media
Trinity Mirror has announced the £8m acquisition of Communicator Corp, a digital communications company specialising in providing email and mobile communications.
According to a release sent out this morning Communicator Corp reported revenues of £3.5m and operating profit of £1m in its latest accounts to the year ended 31 March 2011.
Posted by
Cleland Thom
on 19 December 2011 at 12:52
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media
Here’s some practical tips on Tweeting from court, following the Lord Chief Justice’s announcement last week.
1. A journalist or a legal commentator CAN Tweet from a public court case without asking the judge first. If you’re not sure if you’re a journalist or a legal commentator, then you’re probably not one! Best to check with the court – see point 5, below.
2. Live blogging etc by journalists or legal commentators is also acceptable – they can use other media than Twitter.
3. Mobile devices must be set to silent.
4. Tweeting should be silent, unobstrusive and carried out with hand-held devices – not laptops or notebooks. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 14 December 2011 at 10:52
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Johnston Press has this week rolled out mobile versions for its 211 websites across the UK and Ireland.
In a release the company said:
The sites feature news, sport, lifestyle and community content, with video also now
available.
The group’s successful Find it directory is embedded within the mobile sites, enabling users to search for and check out local businesses and services whilst on the move.
There are also links to the online jobs and local deals platforms.
JP has appointed YOC, which operates one of the leading premium publisher mobile
advertising networks in the UK, to represent JP’s mobile advertising to agencies.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 6 December 2011 at 10:41
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Online
A delivery driver has told the Leveson Inquiry about how he highlighted issues over mobile phone security to the media - and to Vodafone - in 1999.
Steven Nott’s warning about the ease with which voicemail messages could be intercepted using default codes pre-dates the hacking scandal and the introduction of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which made civilian voicemail interception illegal. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 25 November 2011 at 08:09
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Mobile, New Media, Online
Free weekly Sport magazine has today launched a free weekly iPad app.
The app does more than just mimic the magazine - it utilises iPad-friendly design templates and includes addition interactive commercial and editorial content. It is created by the existing Sport production team. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 26 October 2011 at 10:39
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Mobile, New Media, Online
Music monthly Uncut has brought out a one-off iPad edition - David Bowie: The Ultimate Music Guide.
It features 600 interactive pages including archive material from NME and Meody Maker and new review of every Bowie album. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 17 October 2011 at 11:00
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Editorial resources from The Guardian’s axed international edition are to be focused on digital projects such as the iPad edition, according to the paper’s readers’ editor Chris Elliott.
These resources include the journalists involved repackaging content from the UK paper for the slimmer international version. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 13 October 2011 at 07:55
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Guardian today launched an iPad app which will be free for the first three months - thanks to sponsorship from Channel 4 - but will then cost £9.99 a month. (more…)
Posted by
Richard Chidwick
on 29 September 2011 at 15:31
Tags: Mobile, New Media, Online
Journalists and software developers have been invited to take part in a ‘hack day’ event being organised by the Association of Online Publishers in conjunction with the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.
The Mozilla Hack Day is intended to bring together journalists, web developers and graphic designers, and seeks to promote new web technology.
It is open to non members of the AOP, subject to availability, and the cost is £20.
It will take place at Incisive Media, Broadwick Street, London on 13 October transferring to AOP’s Digital Publishing Summit, at Westminster Bridge Park Plaza the next day for final results, judging and prizes.
The organisers said the event will focus on the new HTML5 programming language “with the development of dynamic applications and websites that work on all platforms, for all users – whichever device or operating system they choose”.
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 5 August 2011 at 10:33
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Journalism Technology, Media Business, Mobile, New Media, Online
The number of people using smartphones to browse for news and information has more than doubled over the last year according to new Ofcom research.
Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report states that in April 2011, 23 per cent of mobile internet users claimed to access news and information every day compared to 10 per cent a year previously. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 7 June 2011 at 07:38
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Financial Times today launched a new free app for smartphones and tablet computers which includes live updates and which is based on technology which bypasses Apple.
The app will be free to download and operates within the FT’s existing metered online charging model - which means readers will get ten articles a month for free. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 9 May 2011 at 10:01
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Online
It’s nearly been a year since The Times and Sunday Times put up their online paywall in what was seen at the time as a make-or-break move for the future of jourrnalism.
Press Gazette and City University have assembled an expert panel to discuss tonight what we’ve learned from the experiment, whether it has worked and where we go next in terms of finding a sustainable future for quality journalism in a digital media world.
Print circulations are plunging, free online readership is booming, and publishers are launching a plethora of new apps for iPads and mobile phones. What does it all mean for professional journalists who, like me, are keen to still be journalists in 30 years’ time?
The assembled panelists are: News International marketing bigwig Kate Vanneck-Smith, former News International paywall supremo Dominic Young, Guardian media editor Dan Sabbagh, Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig and Future Plc chief executive Stevie Spring.
The event starts at 7pm (the Oliver Thompson lecture theatyre, Northampton Square) with five minutes on the subject in hand from each of our speakers. Then it is open to questions. If you would like to suggest a question, please email me: dominicp@pressgazette.co.uk, comment on this post or or use the Twitter hashtag #beyondpaywall.
To reserve a place at tonight’s event (which is free) click on this link.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 6 May 2011 at 06:59
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Online, Television
BSkyB has launched a Software Engineering Academy which aims to build new apps for mobile phones and computers to make the most of content on Sky News, www.skynews.com and the broadcaster’s various TV channels.
The Evening Standard last night described it as London’s first “app academy”, opening in September in Osterley, West London, and paying “students” £30,000 a year to create new software applications for the broadcaster.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 8 April 2011 at 10:54
Tags: Agencies, Mobile, New Media, Online, People
Chrystia Freeland has been appointed to the newly created role of Thomson Reuters digital editor.
In her new role, Freeland will focus on showcasing Reuters News, insight, analysis and enterprise reporting across the company’s digital news platforms. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 7 April 2011 at 10:09
Tags: Mobile, New Media, Newspapers, Online, Regional Newspapers
The Belfast Telegraph will launch paid-for daily iPad and smartphone app editions later this month.
Readers wishing to subscribe to the new editions of the paper will be charged £5.99 each month for the iPad version or £2.99 per month for an iPhone or other smartphone app subscriptions. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 4 April 2011 at 10:35
Tags: Media Business, Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Financial Times is turning its attention to the development of Google’s Android operating system as the next phase of its mobile development.
In the coming weeks FT.com’s Honeycomb app will be launched for Android-enabled mobile devices to take advantage of the launch of a series of new tablet formats this year that will run the system.
The launch comes as FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw admits that mobile will probably become his paper’s dominant method of connecting with readers and that Android is quickly becoming a leading platform.
In an interview with The Independent to mark ten years of the FT charging for online content, Grimshaw said: “The mobile transformation could easily be larger in scale than the shift from print to desktop and it could happen at frightening pace.”
Grimshaw told the Indy a recent survey of 2,500 FT registered users found that 45 per cent were accessing content via mobile devices.
“The numbers were much bigger than any of us expected,” he said. “You can only come to the conclusion that mobile will probably become the dominant channel.”
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 30 March 2011 at 11:20
Tags: Mobile, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Independent has launched a free mobile application to allow smartphone users to access its content.
The app, which will allow access across iPhones, Android phones and Blackberry devices, is an upgrade from The Independent’s previous app.
The previous app was solely designed for the iPhone and attracted between 50,000 and 100,000 users per month, The Independent said.
The new app will feature stories on news, sport, opinion, arts & entertainment, life & style, business, and travel. Readers will also be able to share content through email as well as social media sites Facebook and Twitter.
The Independent’s new sister paper, i, launched a paid-for iPad app in November to drive uptake in subscriptions.
Subscribers to the i’s iPad app are charged £1.79 for ten issues. For access to 20 copies, subscribers will pay 25 per cent less than the cost of the print product.
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