Interview with Steve Yelvington of Morris DigitalWorks

Steve Yelvington is Principal Strategist for Morris DigitalWorks (the Internet Division of Morris Communications), Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A. He has more than 30 years of experience in journalis ...>

Interview with Alexander Shulzycki (EBU)

Interview with Alexander Shulzycki, Strategic Information Service, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on the discussion about online activities of public service broadcasters in Europe. IFRA: In some countries there are discussions on the online activities o ...>

Interview with Dietmar Wolff (BDZV)

Not available in English Interview mit Dietmar Wolff, Hauptgeschäftsführer des Bundesverbandes Deutscher Zeitungsverleger (BDZV), zur Debatte des Online-Engagements der öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender. IFRA: Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfu ...>

Frankfurter Rundschau startet Mobil-Portal

Available in German only. Zum Start der Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2008 hat die Frankfurter Rundschau ihr Mobil-Portal freigeschaltet. Auch der Kölner Stadt-Anzeig ...>

Dmitri Bersenev, Media3, on Where NEWS?

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Web-only newspaper in Brisbane, Australia

In March 2007, Fairfax started the Brisbane Times (www.brisbanetimes.com.au), the first Australian metropolitan masthead that has been launched as an entirely online operation. We interview ...>

Interview with ANRI President

Available only in Russian 1. Что вы считаете главным достижением отрасли, в которой работает ваша ассоциация, этого года. Были ли события, которые можно считать «прорывными»? 2. Какие проблемы остались нерешенными? »? 1. Темпы р ...>

NewsGear 2007 full text in Russian

(For the English version, please see newspaper techniques, December 2007) Исследовать аудиторию самостоятельно издателей вынуждает дороговизна тех исследований, которые предлагают социологические ...>

Sergei Davydov, GfK-Rus research director, on news media audience on Internet

Available only in Russian Пожалуйста, загрузите полный текст статьи с диаграм ...>

Alexei Sinelnikov, AiF online director, on ideal site of a weekly newspaper

Available only in Russian Может ли сайт еженедельника в секторе GI (издания массового интереса) соревноваться с Интернет-ресурсами ежедневных газет? Ведь у читателя, посетившего ...>

Natalia Loseva, RIA Novosti online director, on ideal news agency site

Available only in Russian Статья написана в соавторстве с Максимом Филимоновым, заместителем главного редактора РИА «Новости» Революция произошла тихо и бархатно, так что она впо ...>

Ingvar Hjalmarson on ideal web-site

Available only in Russian 270 000 пользователей в стране с населением 300 000 человек - ясное указание на то, что исландский сайт www.mbl.is во многих отношениях является идеальным. Ингвар Хьяльмарсон, Интернет-менеджер газеты Arvakar, объясняет, за счет чего< ...>

Q&A with Jonathan Halls in Moscow

Available only in Russian «Конвергенция: управление переходом к мультимедийности» - на этом семинаре, организованном ГИПП, РИА «Новости» и Ifra, проблема рассматривалась в диапазоне от бизнес-стратегий до управления персоналом до практических занятий по произво ...>

Report on first Russian conference on i-media publishing

Available only in Russian 16 октября в Москве состоялась первая профессиональная конференция российских Интернет-СМИ «i-СМИ 2007». Ее организаторы – Региональный общественный Цент ...>

NewspaperDirect on their experiences with Russian newspaper publishers

Available only in Russian От печати по требованию к SmartEdition Компания NewspaperDirect изначально была создана, чтобы обеспечить доступ к печатным версиям газет в любой т ...>

A-Sfera Publishers on experience with ePaper publishing

Available only in Russian Унас есть опыт сотрудничества с Subscribe.ru по другим проектам, поэтому нам было достаточно легко принять решение об участии в проекте создания и распростр ...>

Techonews Magazine on experience with ePaper version

Available only in Russian Электроннобумажная версия нам понадобилась потому, что огромная масса наших потенциальных и реальных читателей привыкли получать информацию в Интернете. Поэ ...>

Hockey+ magazine on ePaper experience

Available only in Russian «Российский хоккей+» на сегодняшний день единственное издание о хоккее в России. Футбольных изданий много. Не все они в равной степени раскручены, но и в Интернете, и на бумаге площадок футбольных хватает. Хотя, как говорит наш главный ре ...>

subscribe.ru distributes ePaper versions of B2B magazines in Russia

Available only in Russian Вопрос: Каковы предпосылки развития электроннобумажного издательского дела? Валентин Коробков: Сегодня любой издатель традиционного СМ ...>

Practical tips on ePaper Publishing

Available only in Russian 1. Отношения между печатной и электронной версией Если предполагается, что электронная версия издания дает читателям альтернативу, полностью идентичную печатной версии, тогда и ее содержание, и, по мере возможности, процесс чтения ...>

The perfect website by Steve Yelvington

To me, the perfect news website uses the full power of the web. That means leveraging resources owned, operated and provided by other people. It means taking advantage of the network architecture in which everyone can provide as well as consume information. It means interop ...>

Biggest Russian paper on the Internet revamped

Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) is a national newspaper in Russia with a print run of 780,000 copies for the daily edition, and the weekly (Friday) edition has a circulation of 2.9 million copies. ...>

La Nación bets on community and citizen journalism

Lanacion.com, the flagship website of the Argentinean newspaper group La Nación, has always been a Spanish-language site of reference, both in relation to its citizen content as well as i ...>

Column by Alexander Chekshin, KP Web projects director

KP goes Multimedia. Available only in Russian Чтобы понимать, почему мультимедийность из модного термина превратилась для нас в систему мировоззрения и особого отношения к предлагае ...>

Interview with Maurizio Barucca: Second Life

Not yet available in English. Please check again soon. zeitungstechnik: Second Life hat sieben Millionen Bewohner – wie viele lesen den Avastar? Maurizio Barucca:>

Learning Convergence: the IFRA/GIPP/Internews seminar

Available only in Russian Оптимальное сочетание "бумаги" с новейшими цифровыми, мобильными, интернет- технологиями – вот что должно лежать в основе современных издательских стратегий. ...>

Digital Trend Day - ntSummaries

8 May 2007, Mercure Hotel Amsterdam aan de Amstel, the Netherlands More than 100 participants from 26 countries Multiblog: http://www.ifra-nt.com/multiblog/digitaltrend Summaries by Laurel Brunner ...>

Interview with Rob Curley

Rob Curley has made his name with a deft combination of hypertext and the hyper local – harnessing multimedia to make the most of the minutiae of community life. In the process he made a huge splash working for smaller newspapers in Kansas and then in Naples, Florida but ...>

Interview with Louise Mason

newspaper techniques: You’re responsible for the training part at The Daily Telegraph, and training is a very important module of the whole reorganisation process. Could you explain how the training was handled during this period of change at The Daily Telegra ...>

Interview with Jennifer Carroll of Gannett

newspaper techniques: This is really an enormous undertaking that Gannett is doing right now. Jennifer Carroll: Yes, actually, I think like most media companies we’ve b ...>

Interview with Norbert Tiemann & Hilmar Riemenschneider

In 2006, the Westfälische Nachrichten, a regional newspaper based in Münster, Germany, with a daily circulation of 220,000, adopted the Ifra Newsplex convergence concept, NewsDesk, for its pri ...>

Interview with Ed Roussel, digital editor of The Daily Telegraph

nt: How closely linked is the digital operation of Daily Telegraph with the print operation? You’re all in the same room now, right? E. Roussel: We’re very closely linked ...>

Interview with Will Lewis, editor of The Daily Telegraph

newspaper techniques: Could you explain a little bit about how the Daily Telegraph has changed through the reorganisation that has been going on during the past year? Will ...>

DTI's Geoff Walker on the Telegraph installation

newspaper techniques: Is The Daily Telegraph still the largest circulation newspaper in the world using DTI's editorial system? How many seats are involved? Geoff Walker:>

Interview with Murdoch MacLennan

As CEO of the U.K.’s Telegraph Media Group, Murdoch MacLennan has led the organisation through an incredible period of change and reorganisation, including the Telegraph’s recent move from Canary Wharf to new headquarters in central London. In this exclusive interview, M ...>

Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference -- Executive Summaries, day 2

Beyond the Printed Word 2006 Hilton Vienna Hotel, Vienna, Austria Co-Chairmen: Annelies van den Belt, New Media Director, Telegraph Group Ltd., and Vincent Crosbie, Managing Partner, Digital Del ...>

Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference -- Executive Summaries, day 1

Beyond the Printed Word 2006 Hilton Vienna Hotel, Vienna, Austria Co-Chairmen: Annelies van den Belt, New Media Director, Telegraph Group Ltd., and Vincent Crosbie, Managing Partner, Digital Del ...>

MediaSpan's Peter Cooper on mobile

newspaper techniques: Which of MediaSpan's mobile offerings are the most popular with newspaper publishers? Peter Cooper: The ability to create new content channels quickly, based on their specific market. For example, one newspaper knows that their ...>

Interview with Navneet Taori of Pressmart

newspaper techniques: What are the most common questions that you receive from newspaper publishers regarding new media, such as your ePaper offering and text-to-speech ...>

Interview with AP's Jim Kathman

newspaper techniques: How popular have the AP video clips been with users? What kind of feedback are you getting? Jim Kathman: We launched the product on 1 March (2006 in partnership with Microsoft). We’ve found that they’ve been very popular. ... I th ...>

Interview with Dan Cox

newspaper techniques: In 2001, the Lawrence, Kansas-based World Company’s Lawrence Journal-World, Channel 6 News, and World Online moved to a converged newsroom. What did convergence mean for what you do at World Online? Dan Cox: It affects ...>

Entrevista con Shane Richmond

The Telegraph, que en la actualidad cuenta con 15 bitácoras en su web, ha creado una especie de ‘libro de estilo’ para sus bloggers. técnicas de prensa: ¿Qué llevó a The Telegraph a lanzar esta guía para bloggers? Shane Richmond: Nuestros escritores quier ...>

Interview mit Jürgen Oehler

Der Webauftritt der Regionalzeitung Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KSTA) beeindruckt durch Vielfalt und Ideenreichtum: Newsticker, Bilderserien (z.B. vom letzten Fußball-Länderspiel), die besten Leserfotos, Specials, Ratgeber, Rätsel, animierte Anzeigen und vieles mehr. Das neuest ...>

Interview with Alexandra White: Opportunities for Podcasting

The U.K. Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is an industry body representing online publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content. AOP held a conference on podcasting ...>

Newsplex participants' comments: de Volkskrant

For a few years now, the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant has embraced the concept of convergence and has been laying the foundation for a multiple-media strategy. In January, 12 members of ...>

TimesCast Explainer from Mike Riley

Below is the explanation Mike Riley sent out when TimesCast launched in December 2005. The Roanoke (Virginia) Times last week launched an experimental online video news feature, called the TimesCast, on roanoke.com. The TimesCast, a unique multimedia news show fro ...>

Interview with Mike Riley about TimesCast

newspaper techniques: How and when did the idea to start TimesCast come about? Mike Riley: A bit of background first. It's a project with roots here at least several years ol ...>

Podcasting: Trends

Some people say podcasting is not really new, but simply the marriage of the well-worn medium of radio and the already established phenomenon of weblogs. Others say that now, after 18 months of existence, podcasting is settling into little more than a niche among many Inter ...>

Online Video: Trends

by Randy Covington People spend a lot of time on the Internet – and not just to read text. That is why newspapers have success with web strategies that emphasize interactivity and include multimedia content, including video. According to a 2004 study by Stanford ...>

Roanoke Times launches daily video newscast online

NewsGear® '06 Multimedia Edition

Ifra’s Advanced Journalist Technology Project annually evaluates the latest newsgathering technologies, assembling the most innovative and practical into the NewsGear® demonstration suite for today’s most advanced multi-skilled, multi-format journalists.

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At Edipresse, details are important

The building housing the 24 Heures and Le Matin newsrooms in Lausanne, Switzerland, is probably the most visited destination these days when people are looking for innovative newsroom architecture. Here are a few pictures to give you a taste of this futuristic, inspiring environm ...>

Rheinische Post’s Mario Lauer provides the how-to for an epaper startup

Want to offer your readers, and advertisers, a digital epaper version of the newspaper in addition to the printed version? Here is what you need to consider. There are many options for epa ...>

Mobile Publishing: The benefits of mobile for newspapers

By Göran Gulic, web manager at Göteborgs-Posten of Sweden, and Gunnar Springfeldt, development director at the Stampen Group. In Scandinavia and some other parts of Europe, mobile ...>

Podcasting: Expert's advice

By Kerry J. Northrup It’s a show, not just audio. Podcasting’s success as a medium rather than just as a download mechanism for audio files is based on getting people to subscribe to your “channel.” This means treating a podcast like a radio show that has s ...>

What newspapers need to know about RSS feeds

By Kerry J. Northrup RSS stands for either RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, depending on whether specification 0.9, 0.91, 1.0 or 2.0 is being used. ...>

Studiengang Mediapublishing an der HdM

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14 Tageszeitungen mit neuem Gesicht: Erfolgreicher Relaunch des sh:z

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Online Video: Writing for the eye and ear

by Randy Covington While it is not a good idea to try to copy everything from television news for video news content presented online, it is a good idea to take advantage of what bro ...>

Salzburger Nachrichten successfully completes ambitious system project with multicom

Salzburger Nachrichten Verlagsgesellschaft is a medium-sized, family-owned publishing company in Salzburg, the main city of the Austrian state of the same name. The main edition of the newspap ...>

Zeitung Online 2005 mit Rekordbeteiligung (German only)

Gute Zeiten – schlechte Zeiten – die Zeitungsbranche geht im Multimediabereich derzeit durch ein Wechselbad. Neue Wettbewerber drängen in das ohnehin umkämpfte Rubrikengeschäft – doch diesmal ...>