Earlier this week, I was asked the following five questions by a student researching the impact of smart devices, particularly the iPhone, on news. 1. Why did people start reading news on mobile devices? And when? 2. How has the…
Earlier this week, I was asked the following five questions by a student researching the impact of smart devices, particularly the iPhone, on news. 1. Why did people start reading news on mobile devices? And when? 2. How has the…
Nine out of every ten visits to the Guardian website from tablet devices still come via an Apple iPad. This compares to 98 per cent two years ago and is despite the proliferation of Android-based alternatives since then (Google’s Nexus…
There was a really smart piece of analysis by Jasper Jackson over on The Media Briefing yesterday where he looked at the impact of mobile device usage and how it affects “when consumers access your content”. His findings, based on…
*Breaking* UK news aggregator NewsNow is pulling links to many of the UK’s biggest national newspapers after failure to reach agreement with The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited (the NLA). The NLA had threatened NewsNow with legal action if it did not change the way it does business or…
The Spectator and the Guardian have seen the future of charging online – and it’s the Apple iPhone. According to reports this week both are planning iPhone apps which will make their content available to mobile users on a pay-as-you…
Call it serendipity or call it procrastination, every so often a browse through the internet in the name of research throws up something that makes you stop and think. Late last week, it was this screenshot on the right. Telegraph…
So wrote Peter Preston in his weekly ‘Press and Broadcasting’ column for the Observer. The piece by the former Guardian editor is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the future of newspapers in an online world. Why? Because…
Two weeks of news-, laptop- and (thanks to my own incompetence) mobile-free living, I return with too many emails to contemplate and far too many items in my RSS reader to countenance. But somehow this found its way into my…
This morning, news of a crowdsourcing success. This afternoon, a high-profile example seemingly a little stuck in the mud. Six weeks ago the Guardian invited its readers to help it trawl through hundreds of thousands of expense claim documents released (in…
So to the annual MediaGuardian 100. I guess the clue is in the name. The paper likes to slice and dice entrants in its power list – under 40s, top 10 fallers, top 10 women, you know the kind of…