"I must confess that I felt them quite strongly. Communication is so much more intimate online. If people criticised me, or told me that it was drivel etc etc, I felt like I'd been slapped in the face."

“It is impossible to avoid the public anymore. I mean, it’s impossible to avoid listening to the public anymore…The question is what to do when you have to listen to the public. In my own experience, what you hear is not a whole lot that you would like to hear, especially if you have certain ideas about the role of journalism in society, and the importance of that for democracy, and the way the public feels. It’s a little bit depressing. But that is not going to go away because you’ve stopped listening to people.”

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Facebook has introduced a new form of budgeting for advertisers, which enables to control how ad spends will be managed over the life of a campaign rather than a daily budget.

It transcribes them for you using only speech-to-text technology (no humans), which allows it to offer the service for free (with ads at the bottom).

Twitter has unveiled another effort to make money from its micro-blogging service. With its latest advertising program, dubbed "Promoted Accounts," advertisers can pay the company to promote their Twitter accounts to certain users.

"On Monday Golf Digest will introduce Golf Digest on Demand, an ongoing golf-instruction series featuring young golf instructors that will cost $9.99 per month."

I do worry, though, that they've rather left themselves as hostages to fortune with this feature. It surely won't be long until we get the first blog posts saying 'I looked at all the user profiles of the people commenting on this thread about global warming, and I can PROVE that Reuters rejects 12% of comments by users who do not support the myth of man-made climate change, but only rejects 4% of postings by ecofascists.

Richard Pohle, from The Times, said he had refused to photograph the launch. He said: "We are not prepared to sign a contract that leaves us open to being sued by the Tate if our pictures are used next to an article that criticises the gallery."

Like Alphaville, Tilt will include community elements which the FT says will provide a platform for thinkers and businessfolk to share views.

Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version.

Our new process grants a kind of VIP status on people who have had comments approved previously. When you register to comment on Reuters.com, our moderation software tags you as a new user. Your comments go through the same moderation process as before, but every time we approve a comment, you score a point.

Once you’ve reached a certain number of points, you become a recognized user. Congratulations: your comments will be published instantly from now on

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Final year journalism students at Coventry University will be a regular fixture in local paper the Coventry Telegraph thanks to a new work experience scheme with the paper.

Students will take over the Telegraph's community news pages in its print edition and be responsible for filing text and images for the section.

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David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg score 80 points each on the phwoar factor, but neither are as desirable as culture secretary Jeremy Hunt (82), Labour leadership favourite David Miliband (95) or millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, who scores a perfect 100.

"There are other ways for stories to become more than just stories. Without multimedia, reporters even as they go about collecting their moment-by-moment updates, can also be engaged with conversations on social media platforms. This is an adjustment for reporters, and it certainly adds another layer to the concern about speed and burnout, but it inspires, as I noted before, creativity — and it adds further interest to the story."

"Adrenalin is the first complete solution for publishers seeking
to create a customized news-reading application for Apple’s iPad and other tablet devices."

Duncan Watts (djw_at_yahoo-inc.com) is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group.

"If there's one person who can afford to risk everything with a new approach, it's Rupert Murdoch. And that's precisely what he's doing. He might be insane, and he might be wrong, but somehow I suspect that the rest of the newspaper industry will thank him for his grand paywall experiment someday, win or lose. "

Reviews from Metro will now be available through location-based service Foursquare, the first UK newspaper to provide editorial content on the platform.

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According to Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at a Missouri journalism institute, Apple will probably take a 30% cut of all subscriptions sold through its online app store and as much as 40% of the advertising revenue from publications' apps.

The News of the World will relaunch its website www.notw.co.uk and make it available to customers for a charge of £1 for a day’s access or £1.99 for a four-week subscription. The iPad app will follow with a separate weekly charge of £1.19.

Pete Picton, long-time editor of the Sun Online website in the UK, is leaving London to join parent News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) in New York.

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"One question that remains open for me is whether part of the rise of programmer-journalist hybrid is due to trying to find ways to circumvent restrictive IT policies and CMS systems"

"This exciting new role of Head of Digital & Social Media sits within our Brand Marketing team. Brand Marketing are responsible for the strategy behind and creation of marketing campaigns, publications and projects designed to increase consideration of and loyalty to Sky. In short, we want to make more people fans of Sky."