UK Stories
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This is my review of for Journalism.co.uk. It covers new research projects from Ofcom and NESTA, as well as this initiative. It also explores trends such as the move to print, expansion by successful publishers and the challenges of implementing proposals for new press regulation.
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NESTA have published a series of blogs from the 10 projects they are funding under the Destination Local umbrella. They’re worth a read: http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/destination_local
3. “Don’t look back to the age of print. It is a short-term fix.”
A plea to UK Keep your foot on the digital gas @ bit.ly/10bjNsP HT @ — Shirley Ayres (@shirleyayres)
4. The State of Blogging in Leeds
Journalism students at Leeds Metropolitan University have put together their top 20 blogs in Leeds in what @johncbaron describes as “an intriguing post” called the State of Blogging in Leeds.
All this talk of sustainability twaddle. Happy birthday @ - 15 years of just getting on with it. Superb.
— Jason_Cobb (@Jason_Cobb)
US Stories
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Mozilla talks about the value of hyperlocal apps over on , saying: “…you don’t have to be an international corporation—that’s the beauty of HTML5 and Firefox OS. If you’re a developer, your only limitations are your imagination—and your goals.”
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In the first quarter, a third of ‘s local ads were shown on mobile devices. That’s up from 25% in Q4 2012
— Street Fight (@streetfightmag)
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CEO Chris Tolles to Street Fight about how the hyperlocal ecosystem is shaking out, how the shift to mobile is affecting publishers’ CPMs, and why the buy side may keep mobile ad formats from becoming more engaging.
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According to in Search Engine Watch. A study by “Searchmetrics discovered that Google News now makes up 6 percent of all of Google’s universal search integrations.”
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Hyperlocal social network Nextdoor verifies addresses, uses real names, connects you block by block. on.wsj.com/12YHutB — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)