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Google is getting the first "broad" anti-trust review of its U.S.-related search and advertising initiatives by Texas-based Attorney General Greg Abbott,
The Guardian reported Sunday.
According to
IT Pro Portal, the probe will evaluate the mechanism behind the search engine giant's Web-ranking system. Google Deputy General Counsel Don Harrison explained in a
blog post that the company was "looking forward" to the inquiry because it is "confident that Google operates in the best interests" of the users.
The news comes in light of complaints issued by shopping comparison
sites MyTriggers (U.S.) and Foundem (UK) as well as SourceTool (U.S.), an
e-commerce site working for businesses,
The Associated Press explained last week. Features that are offered by the sites show up on
Google searches, but The Guardian mentioned that Google is being accused
of deliberately slicing the sites' traffic by lowering their search
rankings.
"The important thing to remember is that we built Google to provide the most useful, relevant search results and ads for users. In other words, our focus is on users, not websites. Given that not every website can be at the top of the results, or even appear on the first page of our results, it's unsurprising that some less relevant, lower-quality websites will be unhappy with their ranking," Harrison stated.
The Guardian added that Google might be placed under investigation in Brussels by Joaquín Almunia, a competition official, who would examine similar complaints put forth by three firms, Microsoft being one of them.
The Financial Times noted that the European Commission would soon decide whether the preliminary review would grow into a "full-blown" case.
"USA Today is a multi-platform news and information media company."
-- from the new boilerplate in an Aug. 10 news release, signaling a reorganization then in the works.
Earlier: GCI's evolving description of itself
The Arizona Republic is battling Gov. Jan Brewer's mentally ill son over access to his criminal court file, one a judge unexpectedly sealed from public view just days before Brewer took office. Their fight pits an individual's right to privacy against the public's right to view government documents.
AP Tells Its Reporters to Avoid Saying the Iraq War Is Over
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By Ryan Chittum The Times drops this amazing story last week digging into how a Rupert Murdoch tabloid illegally hacked telephones, including those of the royal family. We praised it here. Go read it if you haven't yet—it's well worth your time. Michael Wolff liked it, too. He calls it "a rousing whodunit with many smoking guns." But Wolff being...
By Liz Cox Barrett Here's Faris al-Qaisi, a 47-year-old Iraqi cameraman for AP Television News, reflecting on "what it has been like to live through and record the war" in Iraq and on the declared end of the American combat mission there: For me, living in Saddam's Iraq and in the Iraq under the U.S. occupation was equally hard, but I don't want...
The BSkyB chief executive was given a 15% pay rise in 2009 and his total remuneration package was £2.68m, including a £1.7m bonus
The BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, was awarded a 15% pay rise last year and took home more than £2.6m thanks to a recession-defying performance by the pay-TV company.
Darroch's remuneration including salary, bonus, benefits and pension in the year to the end of June was £2.68m, up from £2.33m the year before.
He received a £1.7m bonus, the maximum performance achievable, a 17% increase on the £1.49m he took home the previous year. His basic salary also grew 5% year on year from £825,000 to £866,250.
"Performance during the year ended 30 June was very strong across the board and exceeded each of the targets for adjusted operating profit, adjusted free cash flow and DTH [digital television household] customer growth," the company said as the salary details were released today.
Despite several salary boosts in recent years, Darroch's latest pay rise still leaves him short of the £1.045m a year earned by his predecessor, James Murdoch. Darroch started on a basic salary of £750,000 in his first year as chief executive.
Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and Asia, was paid £87,500 last year for his duties as Sky chairman.
The filing also showed that Sky's chief financial officer, Andrew Griffith – the company's only other executive director – was paid £1.24m last year. This was a 17% increase on the previous year.
Griffith was also paid the maximum possible bonus, in his case £656,250, a 20% year-on-year increase. His basic salary was bumped from £500,000 to £525,000.
BSkyB's remuneration committee said that the basic salaries of Darroch and Griffith "remain at below market levels".
Darroch's pay for this year will increase by 2.5% to £888,000 and Griffith's will rise by 4% to £546,000 effective from 1 July.
BSkyB reported an 11% year-on-year increase in revenues to £5.9bn for the year to 30 June. Adjusted operating profits surged 10% year on year to £855m. The company, which is set to launch Europe's first 3D TV channel on 1 October, recently signed up its 3 millionth subscriber to high definition television. BSkyB is now within touching distance, at 9.86 million customers, of reaching its long-held target of 10 million by the end of the year.
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Google's Android-run devices now represent 25 percent of mobile Internet platforms, compared to 10 percent in August 2009, a
Qantcast report published Friday shows,
according to CNet News. Meanwhile, Apple has been experiencing diminished figures; with its iOS devices seeing 56 percent usage, compared to 70 percent last year.
Also, devices running on RIM dropped from 10 to 9 percent since 2009, while "other" platforms accounted for 10 percent of U.S. mobile Internet use, according to Apple Insider.
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Android kicked off the year with nearly 19 percent of the market share,
and went on to take 11 percent from Apple's iOS, 1.6 percent from
Research in Motion's Blackberry device and 5.7 percent from other
providers (i.e. Microsoft Windows Mobile and Palm's WebOS) according to
E Week.
The phenomenon may persist, CNet pointed out, if Apple's competitors continue to release more Android phones.
Back in February, the New York Times announced a collaboration with NYU to launch a hyperlocal site in the East Village, and today they’ve set a launch date — next Monday, September 13th. “We intend to add new value — in all media formats — to the East Village’s already rich and vibrant online presence,” said Brooke Kroeger, director of the Carter Journalism Institute at NYU.
One of the interesting components is a “virtual assignment desk” which provides an “editorial work flow system for both assigning stories, and receiving and managing ideas, tips, and finished work from community and student contributors.” Any registered user of NYTimes.com can see what assignments are available. And interestingly, the technology was created as a Wordpress plug-in. We’ll be looking forward to seeing this in action.
Similar to the NYTimes’ hyperlocal site in Brooklyn, the new East Village site will be hosted on NYTimes.com under the brand “The Local.” Back in June, the Times handed off its hyperlocal site in New Jersey to Baristanet.
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Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression has announced the winners of the 2010 International Press Freedom Awards...
Writing in
The Washington Post, he recounts the unveiling of the hostage news first on Twitter and then on traditional media. "For raw speed and real-time eyewitness accounts," he concluded, "it's now virtually impossible for the mainstream media to keep pace with the likes of Twitter."
Katy Gathright holds the same view,
writing on her blog that Twitter "has transcended its role as a news-breaker." She believes that the social media site 'trumped' traditional media.
Social networking sites are invaluable for crowdsourcing, as Jim Farley of WTOP
explains it, "a valuable resource that no news organization can afford
to ignore...they can tell you the size and shape of an event, and the
right questions to start asking."
However, this does not mean that social media have developed a sufficient capacity to take over the news industry. "As rich as Wednesday's Twitter feed was, it was merely a starting point for reporters," Fahri wrote. He quoted WUSA-TV's Allan Horlick as saying, "we can't let raw info to go out over air. The front end is new, but we still have to do our work on the back end."
For MediaGuardian's ten year anniversary, the news source commented on the rising of blogs. With the creation of blog platforms, anyone who wants to publish on the web now has access to the technology. Yet it took the journalism field a long time to take bloggers seriously, as there was a distinct line between trained journalists and bloggers. Recently newspapers have made steps to acknowledge the worth of bloggers in the online news age.
The Guardian has recently launched a network of science blogs and scientists, rather than just journalists, have direct access to publishing their content on the Guardian for the everyday viewer,
reports Nieman Journalism Lab.
Four blogs comprise the newly-launched blog network. "Life and Physics" is written by Jon Butterworth, a physics professor at the University College of London. Former MP Evan Harris writes about the interaction of science and society in his new blog "Political Science." "Punctuated Equilibrium" is written by an evolutionary scientist, while "The Lay Scientist," a blog which incorporates anything else, is overseen by researcher Martin Robbins. What is interesting about this group of authors is none of them are traditionally recognized as journalists, but they are more than qualified to write in-depth articles in their field. Instead of competing against blogs, the Guardian has decided to use other types of professionals to report on special issues which may go beyond the scope of traditional journalists.
Essentially, the agreement between the blogs and the Guardian follows a similar arrangement to that of
Europe's ebuzzing website. The Guardian advertises on the blogs and shares half of the profits with the bloggers. This marks a major turn for the blog sphere; authors not only get additional exposure, but they can also make a living off of their writing that were previously published for free. The Guardian does not edit the blogs for content, however the bloggers and the newspaper will be collaborating over the next few weeks to make the blogs both entertaining and informative.
Clearly the digital age is turning towards giving more respect to the opinions and writings on blogs.
Recently the Associated Press changed its guidelines for how journalists should credit news sources.
According to The Next Web, the regulations clearly state that journalists must cite information from blogs as they would for any other news source. How will this blending of bloggers and journalists affect the future of newspapers?
Jeff Ford, Channel 5's newly appointed director of programmes, will report to Ashford
Paul Ashford, editorial director at Richard Desmond's media company, Northern & Shell, will oversee the majority of Channel 5's programming operations, according to a new management structure.
Ashford is also responsible for Desmond's titles including OK! magazine and the Daily and Sunday Express.
Jeff Ford, Channel 5's newly appointed director of programmes, will report to Ashford, who has taken a leading role in the current £20m cost-cutting drive at Channel 5.
Ford will oversee all of Channel 5's commissioning, acquisitions and digital channels, marketing and legal compliance. He will also have editorial responsibility for Channel 5's children's strand Milkshake!.
However, operationally, Milkshake! is to be based at the studios of Desmond's adult pay-TV business in Docklands, which is run by Paul Dunthorne, managing director of Portland TV.
Continuity presenters and playout facilities for Milkshake! will be housed at Portland TV's Selsdon Way premises in Docklands, east London. The Portland studios are also the base for Desmond's adults channels, which operate under the brands Television X – which promotes itself as "The home of British Porn" – Red Hot, Fantasy and Gay TV.
Kelly Williams, the head of TV airtime sales for Channel 5, is the only other senior executive along with Ford who is staying with the broadcaster following Desmond's takeover.
Williams will report to Stan Myerson, Desmond's right-hand man and joint managing director of Northern & Shell. He will be responsible for airtime sales, commercial partnerships and research.
Channel 5's finance and HR will be overseen by Rob Sanderson, Northern & Shell's group finance director; while the company's other joint managing director, Martine Ellice, is taking over responsibility for legal, facilities and IT.
Last month, Desmond highlighted Milkshake! as one of Channel 5's "success stories" and said that children's output might be in line for a boost from the £300m-a-year pot he has pledged to plough into the broadcaster's programming budget.
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Two years after offering a buyout that decimated its newsroom by
cutting about one-third of its staff, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., the state's largest daily paper,
is offering another such buyout.
In a memo to staff today, Publisher Richard Vezza stated that the
paper had lost $9 million in 2009 and was on pace to lose another $10 million
this year:
After seeing our financial performance for the first seven months
of this year and projecting the remainder of the year, it's clear that we need
to further reduce costs. Our past efforts have helped in moving us toward the
success we must have to continue publishing, but, our ad revenues have
continued to decline in this unprecedented recession and we are now at a very
precarious point.
The memo noted that the buyouts are offered to all non-union
employees hired before 2006 and would provide one year of salary to each.
He also indicated salaries would be readjusted but offered no
specifics. The memo also did not say how many buyouts the newspaper is seeking.
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The New York Times, NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute to Launch News Site to Cover East Village -- Sept. 13
The New York Times and New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will launch The Local East Village, part of The Times's network of community web sites, on September 13. The site, which will cover New York City's East Village, is the first devoted exclusively to reporting on a Manhattan neighborhood.
"We intend to add new value -- in all media formats -- to the East Village's already rich and vibrant online presence," said Brooke Kroeger, director of the Carter Journalism Institute.
"The Local East Village gives us another opportunity to explore ways to provide quality online journalism to communities here and across the country," said Mary Ann Giordano, a deputy Metro editor, New York Times. "We also look forward to seeing NYU's innovations at work, so we can learn more about engaging and involving readers in coverage."
The Local East Village (LEV) site --http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/ or http://localeastvillage.com -- is built by NYU faculty and students, working with Times journalists and software developers. Carter Journalism Institute Professor Richard G. Jones, an award-winning veteran local and national reporter for The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, is the site's editor.
The site will feature a Virtual Assignment Desk, an interactive digital platform that has been created as a Wordpress plug-in. It provides an editorial work flow system for both assigning stories, and receiving and managing ideas, tips, and finished work from community and student contributors. Any registered user of nytimes.com will be able to go to a special page to see what assignments are available.
The site has a rotating community liaison editor. The first is Kim Davis, an East Village resident who publishes At the Sign of the Pink Pig, a weekly online magazine devoted to restaurants and the arts, since 2007. His work has appeared in a range of publications, including City Limits, the Literary Review, and the New Musical Express. "The site is a significant step forward in pro-am journalism collaborations, said Jones. "Our goal is that as much as half of the content on the site will be produced by our East Village neighbors."
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