BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
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– MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren… Read more »
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The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.… Read more »
How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO… Read more »
Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit… Read more »
Expect to see more of this. The BBC is redesigning its website to take account of how users are now “swiping” using touchscreen devices. Read more »
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
– Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “lat… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
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An ironic footnote to the story from yesterday that involved the Daily Mail shutting down a proxy site for making unauthorized caches of its… Read more »
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
Sky and the BBC are still discussing ways to place the broadcaster’s catch-up TV service on the platform operator’s set-top box, despite app… Read more »
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The BBC is tweaking its iPlayer to cater to booming IPTV consumption, whilst offering concessions to TV platforms left disappointed by its r… Read more »
Mark Thompson had set an August deadline, and now BBC Worldwide has finally released its global version of the iPlayer catch-up TV service. Read more »
Radio is going digital all over the world – on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television,… Read more »
How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch’s hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its pub… Read more »
The BBC is usually regarded as an even-handed observer of the world’s events. But one of its more opinion-led programs, Newsnight, last nigh… Read more »
BBC’s push to make money from its overseas businesses, particularly online, had a good boost this morning, when the international site, BBC.… Read more »
Facebook Credits today got another vote from the media industry as a currency for paid digital content: the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldw… Read more »
Here’s a look at some of the key revelations and developments in the fiasco that has hit News International and the publisher’s owner News C… Read more »
Update: So now the mystery has been solved. Some time late today, the ownerships of the domain names thesunonsunday.co.uk and sunonsunday.co… Read more »
Eight months after he joined the corporation from Major League Gaming, Ralph Rivera has set out his aims for the first time as the BBC’s fut… Read more »
Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year, as the BBC begins the process of i… Read more »
Back in March, paidContent:UK revealed the IPTV service Boxee, after taking new funding, hired Wil Stephens to lead a European push. Now it… Read more »
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The BBC’s Vision department, which produces BBC content, is axing about 100 jobs by March 2012 and scrapping the roles of multi-platform com… Read more »
When Twitter and its users were sued last week for allegedly breaking a UK injunction granting privacy to a British footballer, the service… Read more »
*Time* between launching on iOS and Android? Ten months, in BBC News’ case.
The broadcaster, with all its resources, has only today debuted… Read more »
Thirty percent of TopGear.com’s traffic comes from Facebook fans, BBC Worldwide’s digital director Dan Heaf tells Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser… Read more »
It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers — it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, pa… Read more »
[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne]
Hi everyone,
Today we are making some changes to our organisatio… Read more »
Lonely Planet is making around 15 percent of its staff redundant, including relocating its online operations from Melbourne to London, in a… Read more »
Nick Ascheim is leaving his post as the Associated Press’s Digital GM to join BBC Worldwide Americas to help the company chart its mobile st… Read more »
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… Read more »
If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in… Read more »
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes… Read more »
One of the BBC News website’s veteran editors Pete Clifton is joining MSN UK as executive producer, the role formerly occupied by CNN Intern… Read more »
In yet another “paywalls” debate Wednesday morning, came an interesting twist on the oft-heard grumble that “free” BBC News is a barrier to… Read more »
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