Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Cameron Barrett and Joe Stump have started a news service called TodaysPapers.com, that aggregates news into different categories from more than 100 web pages via RSS. The format is similiar to Google News. According to the website “TodaysPapers is the next step in personal news management and media research.” Maybe this could be something for Steve Rubel’s all-blog media diet?
Link via Mymarkup.
Coverage of blogs in Swedish media continue to rise and hit new record levels (irony intended, see previous post). There were a total of 28 articles in Swedish media about blogs during May, several of them reporting on Bill Gates comments about blogs. IT and technology press make up half of this number, while marketing and journalism press are still silent. Source: online publications via a Retriever search.
One of the biggest dailies in Sweden, Göteborgs-Posten, turns tabloid before year end. The death of broadsheet can be studied in several articles on Editorsweblog.org today as it reports from World Editors Forum in Istanbul. For example, only two months after its launch, the Polish tabloid Fakt became the biggest newspaper in Poland.
“The biggest single threat to broadsheets comes from the fact that readers have less time to read.”, said George Brock, Managing Editor of The Times of London.
Furthermore, “tabloids are the future for Mexican papers, says El Universal editor Raymundo Riva-Palacio.
Editorsweblog.org reports about a debate during the World Editor’s Forum. According to the article, Dean Wright, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, MSBNC.com, and Jean-Louis Cebrián, Chief Executive Officer of PRISA Group and EL PAÍS, agreed that the newspaper “editor’s role becomes more important” in a new media environment in which news can be produced and disseminated through online means such as blogs.
Online Journalism Review reports about blogger Robert Cox who tried to get The New York Times to get a correction in the paper. He tried everything, but in the end, it was his parody of the Times’ correction page – and the overreaction from the Times’ legal department – that got the newspaper to change its policy.
Link via Dan Gillmor.
The New York Times today had a healthy and unusual article (free registration required) about its own coverage of the Iraq war.
“Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged — or failed to emerge.”
Some parts of the coverage the paper is not happy with, and that includes for example trusting sources like Ahmad Chalabi or people close to him.
“The problematic articles varied in authorship and subject matter, but many shared a common feature. They depended at least in part on information from a circle of Iraqi informants, defectors and exiles bent on “regime change” in Iraq, people whose credibility has come under increasing public debate in recent weeks.”
A sample of the coverage is online at nytimes.com/critique.