Media - Internet

Newspaper websites saw ad spending rise 21.1 percent to $773 million in Q3 versus the same period last year, according to estimates from the Newspaper Association of America. While online ad spending has been slowing down in general, newspaper website ad spend gains appear relatively stable. As the NAA noted in Q306, the category’s growth was 23 percent; viewed sequentially, numbers this quarter...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO will collaborate on global efforts to forge universal standards towards building a multilingual cyberspace. The three agencies organised a workshop on this subject during the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12-15, 2007...

Reporters Without Borders today appealed to the countries taking party in the four-day Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that began yesterday in Rio not to allow the issue of online free expression to be eclipsed by the debate about the United States’ dominant role in Internet governance. Website domain names are managed by ICANN, a California-based non-profit organisation which could in theory...

Australian Facebook addicts beware. Users who spend too much work time on social networking sites risk losing their jobs if Britain's experience is anything to go by. Research by one of the country's top newspapers has shown how strongly employers are cracking down on inappropriate use of email and sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Figures obtained by The Guardian, and obtained under freedom...

Ifra will launch a vertical search engine for the newspaper industry in January, its CEO claimed. Opening the Beyond the Printed Word conference, in Dublin today, Reiner Mittelbach told delegates that the engine would help interested parties easily find news, information and reports on the newspaper business. Ifra's project manager, Dr Amrei Wiederin, later told Journalism.co.uk that the project...

THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many major papers...

The BBC has begun the controversial roll-out of adverts on its BBC.com international news website. BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, hopes the move will bring in an estimated £70m a year. The BBC.com ads, which started to appear from yesterday in certain key markets such as the US, are framed at the top and on the right hand side of web pages, with three major brands signed up for...

Backed by a solid comms strategy, online magazine has established itself as a leader in breaking news When it was founded in 1995, the general wisdom about Salon.com was that it was a great idea. A magazine - online only! The future is here! After the tech bubble burst and tons of seemingly brilliant online companies fizzled out, sentiments changed. An online magazine? With no print ad revenue? It...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you find yourself going online more and more? You're not alone. Four out of five U.S. adults go online now, according to a new Harris Poll. The survey, which polled 2,062 adults in July and October, found that 79 percent of adults -- about 178 million -- go online, spending an average 11 hours a week on the Internet. "We're up to almost 80 of adults who now are online, or...

Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new audiences, the original sources might not get the direct financial benefit — in fact, they might have little idea where their work has spread. A young company called Attributor says it has an answer, and a number of big publishers of...