After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press, the 161-year-old news cooperative, is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create. “You have to adjust to the marketplace,” said Jim Kennedy, The A.P.’s vice president for strategic planning. “The new generation of consumers has completely different habits.” To [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook is good for keeping up with high-flying buddies, MySpace is for teenage offspring and the BlackBerry is a full-time addiction, according to top media executives who were quizzed on their personal media habits at this week’s Reuters Media Summit. “I may be the only human being on earth who’s on MySpace [...]

Reuters and Nokia have joined hands for a project that, they claim, will change the face of journalism worldwide. The two organisations have showcased their first project, a new mobile application, which gives journalists everything they need to file and publish news from the most remote regions of the world. While the application’s most immediate use [...]

The BBC is to release a series of behind-the-scenes videos detailing how it compiles its news packages. The multi-media experiment will chart BBC reporter Ben Hammersley’s coverage of the run-up to the Turkish elections. Hammersley will post unedited footage of interviews shot for the reports on the internet along with pages of his research notes. The former Guardian [...]

University journalism programs are stepping up to meet newsroom demands for students with online skills. Schools are adding programs to teach print students to use words, audio, video and other tools needed for the quickly evolving world of online news. “The more they know, the more marketable they’re going to be,” said Wayne Wanta, president of the [...]

Like other parts of the broadcast plant, newsrooms are being asked to do more with their existing staffs, whether it’s producing high-definition newscasts or repurposing content for multiple platforms. As newsrooms’ head count remains the same, or even declines, automation, editing and graphics vendors are taking on stations’ challenge. They are offering an array of software-based [...]

Traditionalists devoted to the old Henry Luce idea of a newsweekly may be viewing Time magazine’s recent makeover with discomfort, but Madison Avenue is down with the program. Media buyers praised this week’s radical new look for playing up individual voices in the magazine — brand names which, in turn, are supposed to direct younger readers [...]

Microsoft Corp and three newspaper/magazine companies have unveiled a software service that allows readers to download stories and read them even when not connected to the Internet. The News Reader, which is now available to readers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, enables readers to automatically transfer a sampling of stories from the newspaper’s website onto their [...]

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has launched an initiative to develop a new measurement standard for newspaper readership, both print and digital. Newspaper salesman Dallas Airs sells a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle at his newspaper stand in San Francisco in 2006. Several media research firms have created combined measurements to show the advertising [...]

Ubiquitous broadband network connections and digital devices that permeate every situation of daily life will allow people to use information, communication and services at work, at home and on the move, says a report by one of the world’s leading organisations for the newspaper and media industries. A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected [...]

Most of us desire to read as many newspapers as possible but are not able to do so for many reasons. But now with the help of a newly developed technology anyone can browse up to 10 newspapers on a cellular phone. Launched in Hyderabad, the first ever M-Paper enables one to read 10 complete English [...]

Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O’Shea unveiled a major initiative Wednesday to combine operations of the newspaper and its Internet site — a change he said was crucial to ensuring that The Times remains a premier news outlet. O’Shea employed dire statistics on declining print advertising revenue to urge The Times’ 940 journalists to throw [...]

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O’Shea unveiled a major initiative Wednesday morning designed to expand the audience and revenue generated by the newspaper’s Web site, saying the newspaper was in “a fight to recoup threatened revenue that finances our news-gathering.” O’Shea employed dire statistics on declining advertising to urge the Times’ roughly [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Washington Post Co. plans to have its veteran editors help shape the way stories appear on the Web in the latest example of how top U.S. publishers are retooling news operations for the Internet. The Washington Post’s Web site, launched more than a decade ago, has been a bellwether among online [...]

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) – Gannett Co. Inc. (GCI.N: Quote, Profile , Research) plans to overhaul its local newsrooms to report stories around the clock using text, audio and video, as it tries to retain readers who are deserting newspapers for other media. Gannett’s Information Center project is designed to let its 89 local papers [...]