Google’s chief economist has painted a grim picture for the future of the print news industry, but rejects suggestions that his company or the internet in general should be held responsible for newspapers’ financial problems.
Mapping out his analysis on Google’s Public Policy Blog, Hal Varian said that the decline… Continue Reading >>
The internet giant Google is set to make its first foray into the world of conventional television, experimenting with a new service which would allow viewers to use set-top boxes to search for programmes.
Sources told The Wall Street Journal that the experiment involves Google software being installed on digital set-top… Continue Reading >>
Facebook’s chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been announced as the Media Person of the Year to be awarded at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June.
The award is presented annually at the festival, which is the world’s largest gathering for international advertising professionals. The anointment of… Continue Reading >>
Online streaming website Hulu.com will be without some of its most popular content from Tuesday after the company failed to reach an agreement with Viacom over the availability of episodes of Comedy Central shows.
Both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are popular amongst Hulu users… Continue Reading >>
International Media, New Media March 7th 2010 — 5:10 pm
The UK’s contentious Digital Economy Bill is likely to become law before the expected dissolution of Parliament in April in preparation for the country’s general election in May senior media figures have told The Guardian.
The bill, which introduces the ability for internet service providers to disconnect users who pirate… Continue Reading >>
International Media, New Media March 6th 2010 — 5:19 pm
The communications minister Stephen Conroy has voiced his support for the ABC’s plans to broaden its operations, arguing that the public broadcaster’s expansion is an important part of the “digital revolution”.
In an interview with The Age, Conroy praised the work of the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott, crediting him with “leading… Continue Reading >>
New Media, Television March 6th 2010 — 8:48 am
A last-minute amendment to legislation governing digital media in the UK could threaten access to websites including YouTube, by granting High Court judges the potential ability to force websites offline if they host significant amounts of copyright-infringing content.
The change to the Digital Economy Bill was approved by Britain’s House of… Continue Reading >>
News of a significant cut in services at the BBC will be welcomed by a growing chorus of rivals and politicians in the United Kingdom, many of which believe that the broadcaster has got too big for it’s boots and should be limited in the services that they operate, in… Continue Reading >>
New Media, Online, Radio, Spy Opinion, Television February 26th 2010 — 8:42 pm
A court in Italy has convicted three Google executives on charges of violating privacy laws, after a video showing an autistic boy being bullied was posted on the Google Video website.
The court found that the Google executives – David Drummond, George De Los Reyes and Peter Fleischer – should… Continue Reading >>
Brendan Hopkins, the chief executive of APN News & Media, has criticised the ABC’s digital initiative in regional areas, claiming that it is not the ABC’s role to compete with private companies in the supply of news content.
The ABC says that the ABC Open initiative will result in 45 producers specialising… Continue Reading >>
The popularity of the BBC’s internet broadcasting service iPlayer is continuing to build rapidly, with figures for last month showing a five per cent rise in UK viewing requests during January.
120.3 million requests for a mixture of catch-up and live programmes from both television and radio were recorded in… Continue Reading >>
Media industry figures from the United States and around the world have met in New York to discuss the changing media landscape, with representatives from several major companies seeking to justify the gathering momentum behind paid news content.
Among those present at the paidContent 2010 conference yesterday were executives from… Continue Reading >>
International Media, New Media, Online February 21st 2010 — 11:18 am
The BBC has signalled that it wants journalists to use social media to enhance news output, declaring that the use of collaborative technologies was “not discretionary”.
The Guardian reports that the global news director Peter Horrocks has told staffers that accepting and adapting to social networking was essential in the… Continue Reading >>
Articles from the wire service Associated Press have re-appeared on Google after a seven-week blackout linked to ongoing talks between the two companies over the use of AP’s news content.
The agency’s articles have long been hosted on the Google News service under the terms of a licensing agreement, but the… Continue Reading >>
International Media, New Media, Online February 10th 2010 — 10:21 pm
The movement toward paid online content continues to pick up steam, with more European newspapers now establishing paywalls.
Two newspapers run by the German-based Axel Springer AG, one of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, now require subscriptions for unfettered access to news. Users wishing to read all content on the Berliner Morgenpost website… Continue Reading >>