How’s this for tearing things up? A big TV news agency is tapping citizen video journalists as producers, Reddit users as editors and YouTube as financiers, for a new online journalism channel. Read more »
A U.S. election bump lifts the newspaper above the venerable broadcaster, as the two British news orgs vie for American readers. But closer inspection shows the BBC remains the more popular brand. Read more »
Russia’s new internet blacklist may not be the only force threatening available of Google’s business in the country. If new reports are to be believed, Mail.ru also wants to stop using Google’s search service. Read more »
Not even going online-only is enough. Reporting at the heart of Europe’s economic strife, FT Deutschland says its losses are now so big, it must shut down, leaving WSJ Deutschland to benefit. Read more »
As it launches a new weekly tech magazine on iPad, publisher Future puts some numbers on impressive tablet magazine gains, but overall revenue is slightly down. Read more »
Could a mobile app have rooted out #FakeSandy storm images that ruffled so many feathers? Scoopshot thinks it can, but others say editors must rely on human research to validate UGC photojournalism. Read more »
The BBC has announced its fourth director general in eight months. But what will ‘digital pioneer’ Tony Hall do with the internet? He would do well to follow George Entwistle’s plan that so delighted digital champions. Read more »
Look out, world. Mail Online is still investing in building out its U.S. and U.K. teams. The next focus for cash will be video production. Read more »
Should content owners sell through a subscription or on a piece-by-piece basis? That depends on the country they will be selling to, according to data that shows wildly varying patterns. Read more »
Another vendor hoping to provide a paid content mechanism to online publishers is raising money from backers including Apple’s former overseas lieutenant. Read more »
The industry has been ravaged by cutbacks and an ad downturn. Now three UK local news publishers confirm they are coming together to improve digital news. But can they deliver on the promise? Read more »
Browser maker Opera launches a music service in to a Russian market that badly needs legal options, whilst iTunes Store’s debut is reportedly shelved. Read more »
The European Commission wants to make it easier for digital services to offer content across the bloc’s national borders. Now research examines whether citizens want it as much as operators do. Read more »
In an Asian video market that’s growing fast and dominated by Vietnam, online software vendor Kaltura will open up efforts with a $25 million investment. Read more »
The publisher of supermarket giant Tesco’s custom magazine says it is now more read than any UK newspaper. That would be a milestone in branded content. But the claim merits closer inspection of the numbers. Read more »
Apple and Samsung are both taking a greater share of mobile ad impressions from RIM and Nokia, but Cupertino’s devices are gobbling faster than Korea’s, according to research. Read more »
Online publishers are benefitting by using technology to identify what readers really want to read and share. Watch BuzzFeed, AOL and Unruly Media executives discuss their viral media strategies. Read more »
Despite that famous 1996 declaration, many publishers have struggled to find effective consumer offerings online. But now a perfect storm of new models and prospects gives renewed confidence for many. Read more »
AOL is getting investor interest for taking Huffington Post off its hands. But the pair are fixed on taking Arianna and TechCrunch worldwide. Next up is Japan, nine other launches and a possible UK newspaper tie-up. Read more »
A stream of research reports continues to show people using mobile devices whilst watching TV. But what does the opportunity really add up to. Not a lot, says an influential digital media banker. Read more »
As web advertising faces challenges, how can an operating system and a VoIP service show more ads whilst not disrupting users? By threading them so deeply in to the technologies that no-one notices, Microsoft and Skype say. Read more »
Start spreading the news — New York’s buzziest new media start-ups draw from a richer cultural tapestry that can lure engineering talent from Palo Alto, Gotham founders say. Now they just need a massive exit. Read more »
Online video is hot. So the media vehicle run by News Corp’s former COO is now investing in Base 79, a company that populates online video channels and apps for content owners. Read more »
A start-up is trying to bring Next Issue Media-style magazine subscriptions to European iPads. But Le Kiosk is taking on €5.6 million in funding to improve its underlying tech with social features and more. Read more »
After the Napster years, the world’s biggest major label is approaching growth again, and is about to reach the point where it sells more music digitally than on discs. Read more »
Should publications go to tablets with cheap print replicas or costly interactive editions? The Daily Mail has both – and now is trying to inject more interactivity in to its page-turner. Read more »
Publishers reliant on classified advertising are getting hurt by the UK’s fragile local economy. Some are now desperately courting alternative advertising models, but our earnings round-up shows their growth is so far being wiped out. Read more »
Live TV about gaming has all but disappeared since I was an Amiga and Nintendo kid. But now Call Of Duty’s live-streaming connection out of YouTube could point the way back to the future. Read more »
YouTube will fund more original channels for a second year, but will divert most of the money to new producers after learning lifestyle, comedy videos and hard promotion work better than celebrity channels. Read more »
TV and tech folk nowadays talk the same language. But, as London’s eastern Tech City neighborhood gains attention, envious western broadcasters fight back with their own newly-named space. Read more »
Months after China’s largest online video site was formed through merger, Tencent claims its own video site has already overtaken its rival thanks to its incredible diversified digital service scale. Read more »
Russian TV broadcasters are beginning to cooperate to ensure one site can become the go-to video portal. But Videomore doesn’t yet have 100 percent partner coverage. Read more »
New products aren’t the only ones to benefit from the amazing fan-funding power of crowdfunding web services. Failed and long-gone creators are also using them to show that, online, a project proposal is never over until it’s over. Read more »
Online earnings are falling despite booming audiences at leading UK news publisher Trinity Mirror, caught in a confluence of circumstances that prompt the big question — does content pay? Read more »
Virgin Media is the latest TV platform operator to launch on-the-go viewing and in-home remote controlling in a combined iPhone and iPad app. It’s a welcome and belated addition, but some features still depend on ye olde wires. Read more »
German publisher Axel Springer is buying heavily in to European classified sites to court digital and international growth. Snapping up Belgian property service Immoweb, it says the move will make up for a weakening print ad sector. Read more »
Don’t call it ‘China’s Netflix’, but, fresh from its cost-saving merger, Asian video leader Tudou Youku now has agreements with all Hollywood majors to show their movies to its two million paying online video customers. Read more »
It’s going to take a Herculean effort to depose Google as Brits’ search engine of choice. But, percentage point by percentage point, Bing is fronting up, knocking its rival’s share below the important 90 percent mark. Read more »
Nordic newspapers will be the latest to offer unlimited streaming music through Aspiro’s WiMP service, after publisher Schibsted bought the firm. But latest funding for Aspiro’s growth comes from outside of publishing. Read more »
Some of the key Pixar staff whose hands sculpted Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody tell GigaOM’s Roadmap conference entrepreneurs must base their ideas off design that stems from a coherent story. Read more at GigaOM »
