Very interesting development by the Thomson Reuters Foundation – its Emergency Information Service (EIS), launched today, will send units of journalists to scenes of major natural disasters to “seek out, collate and disseminate life-saving information...
Mark Briggs shares his jottings from last week’s Interactive Local Media conference in Los Angeles, with some noteworthy nuggets from those behind successful and emerging news models. For example, advice from local community news/review site Yelp...
Big Spark Publishing has re-launched a new public sector newspaper, the NHS News.
The bi-monthly title has an initial print run of 35,000 and bulk deliveries will be made to NHS Trusts “by arrangement,” How-Do reports.
“NHS News, like Big Spark’s...
“The Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to inject their own paid comments among reader comments and place paid Tweets among the live Twitter feeds the site assembles around news subjects and events,” reports Advertising Age.
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As part of its industry consultation, the Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd (PressBoF) has decided that local authority publications should not be brought within the remit of the Press the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).
“It has decided...
