Nov
30
On the last day of November, the web has delivered up these:
- Huffington Post to Add Original Reporting . The hiring of ex-Newsweeker Melinda Henneberger as political editor is the first step towards more original journalism from the blogging site. More media reinvention; more competition for the mainstream. Via I Want Media.
- Press Gazette refuses to lie down. The 41-year-old British newspaper trade journal may not be dead quite yet. Via Journalism.co.uk
- Saying good-bye to newspaper days: Hundreds of newsmen and women are taking buyouts. Lisa Snedeker, at Media Life, looks at the effects layoffs and buyouts are having on newspapers. One quote: “…I’m out of the newspaper business, probably for good”. Via Journalism.org.
- Britons turn off television and put down the paper as they take up broadband. A Guardian report on the impact spreading broadband has not just on the tube but on newspaper readership. Via Media Bistro.
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