Media - Internet

The BBC has unveiled its Creative Future strategy and its plans for a revamp of its online arm which could see it taking on the likes of MySpace. The move towards a more tech-savvy BBC is prompted by the broadcaster's fears it may be failing a younger audience who are shunning TV in favour of spending time on the internet. Research by the BBC found that 60 per cent of those aged between 16 and 24...

No more blaming newspaper editors for burying an important article. A new generation of Web sites relies on the masses to help decide which headlines are at the top of the page. The idea is to give visitors what they want to read with better precision. Increasingly, Web sites are asking visitors to vote on individual stories or measuring online buzz around a topic, and then organizing their pages...

NEW YORK: At least five of the winning Pulitzer Prize entries this year included an online component, Pulitzer Administrator Sig Gissler said Monday after the prizes were announced. In the first year that Web elements were allowed to be entered in every category, he called that significant. "It played a significant role," Gissler noted during comments after the announcement press conference at...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A syndication service that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers for use by newspaper publishers is set to launch on Tuesday, further blurring the lines that divide blogs and mainstream media. BlogBurst, as the service from blog technology company Pluck Corp. is known, includes headlines and articles for use by newspaper publishers in the news or feature sections of their...

JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences – fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The search-engine "bots" that crawl the Web are...

The most-hyped site redesign in years has to be the updated look of the New York Times. With the new design, the Times is making a lot of significant assumptions: that visitors have large monitors; that people can navigate dense, confusing layouts; that multimedia bandwidth is not a major problem anymore; and that mainstream sites need to incorporate user input. When the paper sometimes known as...

While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information. The dramatic success of those Internet categories is apparent from a recent online-traffic analysis provided by market research firm ComScore Media Metrix, which examined visitor growth rates among the 50 top Web sites over the past year. Top-ranked sites...

WASHINGTON, March 31 – The transformation of American politics by the Internet is accelerating with the approach of the 2006 Congressional and 2008 White House elections, producing far-reaching changes in the way campaigns approach advertising, fund-raising, the mobilizing of supporters and even the spreading of negative information. Democrats and Republicans are sharply increasing their use of e...

Without being too melodramatic, the blog as a disruptive and rebellious medium could be dead. Perhaps the most obvious indication blogs are becoming part of the mainstream is Time magazine's recent decision to hire two high-profile bloggers -- Ana Marie Cox and Andrew Sullivan -- to write for the magazine and the Web site. Instead of being dismissed as just forums for online rants or digital...

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- In a move that will almost certainly boost political ad spending on the Internet, the Federal Election Commission gave political blogging more freedom while tightening controls for paid advertising. In a unanimous decision, the six-member FEC said paid political ads have to be disclosed -- but not much else -- on the Internet, unless the activity is specifically done by a...