"It's worth noting that — with the exception of newspapers — the percentage share of most traditional media in overall spending has remained roughly the same…"

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"Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are planning to introduce San Francisco Bay Area editions, hoping to win new readers and advertisers there by offering more local news, in what could be the first glimpse at a new strategy by national newspapers to capitalize on the contraction of regional papers."

"The vast majority of executives who say, “I want to be just like Apple,” have no idea what it really takes to achieve that level of success. What they’re saying is they want to be adored by their customers, they want to launch sexy products that cause the press to fall all over themselves, and they want to experience incredible financial growth. But they generally want to do it on the cheap."

It's a restaurant review, it's a comic, it's video, it's a blog post. Brilliant and engaging.

"Total print advertising totaled $6.2 billion, a decline of 30% over the same period last year. Within the print category, national ads fell nearly 30%, while retail ads fell nearly 25%."

"…a new technology emerges and creates the possibility for a radically different organizational architecture, using an entirely different combination of skills and relationships. The only way to get from one organizational architecture to the other is to make drastic, painful changes."

"The only way newspapers can ensure the survival of their brands and the journalistic principles they hold so dearly is to separate the web organization completely from the newspaper… The print product will always win because it still makes the most money, has the most people and cost associated with it and is where everyone feels comfortable."

"The acquisition provides Dachis Group the ability to meet the increasing demand for larger and more complex engagements with global companies striving to create value through the use of social technologies in order to better engage their customers, foster more efficient workforce collaboration and enhance and optimize business partner relationships."

Apparently, there were too many headlines with "finally" in, so it was changed to "Can Dec at last match Ant?" But along the way, someone forgot to change both sides of the spread, leaving the "a" of "at" on one page and "nally" of "finally" on the other, creating the memorable headline

"Add all this together: contribution to a community to build it as an asset; ownership of the community by the community; members having a mutual stake in the community; members exercising control over the whole. That is membership."

"The same populations that tend to participate in offline political activities — citizens with high incomes and high levels of education — are also the most likely to participate on the Web."

"Marketing online takes too much measurement, patience, creativity, technical knowledge, flexibility, speed and authenticity. It requires too much thinking and not enough going out for dinner with clients."

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"The deal values the entire company at just $2.75 billion – far short of the $4.1 billion eBay agreed to pay four years ago."

"Journalists are notable for taking more from the site than they put in, and this is a cultural issue that we are addressing on an ongoing basis through communication and workshops."

"According to Hitwise UK, Twitter has overtaken MySpace for the first time on the list of most visited UK websites."

"Or perhaps this was a deliberate piece of sabotage by staff worried about their jobs?"

Fraser looked after me when I was on work experience at The Times back in 2008. He was very kind to me – he let me have a joint byline on a story about BHP Biliton and Slough Estates.

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These rates have been reported by members of the National Union of Journalists and others, and printed in the Freelance, newsletter of London Freelance Branch. They are sorted by publisher/publication, then by date (most recent first).

Seven days a week, Timmy sits by a store-bought police scanner and live-blogs emergency calls—all from the confines of his bedroom in the house where he has lived all his life with his mother and 18-year-old sister.

I am always impressed by the way The Post tries to consult its readers about what it does. Yes, there are limited options in difficult times, but it's an attitude towards its community that makes me very proud to have worked there.

Yesterday Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves outlined the challenges facing the newspaper and called for readers to send in their views on the options being considered for survival. Here are some of the responses.

"… we need to provide users with the tools to build their own customized feeds of that data."

"…in reality most people will do anything for a discount. Hand over all your shopping data for a penny back in every £10? – sure thing, here's my supermarket card!"

What's great about this approach is that you don't need corporate social media policies — just let your staff do what they do. What's challenging about this approach, at least for other companies, is that most don't hire with same intent and fervor.

hile it is easy to understand why a relatively young company or one started by a tech-savvy founder would so completely embrace social media communication tools, it is quite a bit more remarkable for an almost 30 year old established brick and mortar company with roughly 50,000 employees and over 270 stores worldwide to have done so.

The London Evening Standard deputy editor Andrew Bordiss has resigned after more than 11 years in the job.

After News International’s decision to shut its freesheet thelondonpaper, now Associated Newspapers’ national freesheet rival Metro is planning to make up to 30 redundancies on its regional arts and entertainment sections

"Trinity Mirror is considering taking the Birmingham Post weekly after revealing that its Midlands titles are on course to lose more than £6m in 2010."