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ABC to set up university news bureaus at five US journalism schools

The news network, in return for filing stories for digital and broadcast platforms, will mentor a paid staff of students

Guardian mulling on guidelines for journalists participating in comment threads

Staff on the paper are engaged in internal discussions about how journalists should interact with readers in comments

CNET UK and Gamespot UK in mobile launch

CNET Networks UK has launched mobile sites for two of its flagship titles - CNET.co.uk and Gamespot UK

User-generated content to be integrated across Telegraph.co.uk

The relaunched Telegraph blogging platform MyTelegraph will see content from the site integrated with the main site to attract new users

Over 200 years of newspaper content to be made available as TimesOnline launches digital archive

Archive will be free to users and stretch back to 1785

Search is central to TimesOnline's journalism, says Spackman

Optimising content for search engines has become a key focus for TimesOnline staff since the site's revamp says editor-in-chief

Virgin Media relaunches news site with PA multimedia content

The Press Association will supply a news package of text, photos, graphics and embedded video

Web editors 'not commercial enough', say magazine industry's digital heads

Web editors need to develop a commercial focus to protect revenue streams across the group, say publishers

RBI considers pay-per-page view for online journalists

A pay-per-view pay model for online content has been discussed by the publisher

RBI launches Chinese newsletter for aviation news

RBI's Flight group now publishes a Chinese-language newsletter for subscribers

Future of newsrooms is integrated, claims editors survey

Second Newsroom Barometer survey confirms results of the first by suggesting that most newspapers expect to be integrated in five years

Dutch citizen journalism site Skoeps closes

Skoeps site closed after failing to find profitable business model

Huff Post is death to professional journalism, says Keen

News sites such as The Huffington Post will kill off professional journalists, says Andrew Keen

ABCe considers measuring web traffic from mobiles

The bureau will work with industry group the GSMA to develop an industry-wide standard for measuring traffic from mobiles

MEN to relaunch City Life as its standalone entertainments website

Manchester's seminal news, reviews and listings magazine to get a Web 2.0 makeover when it's reincarnated online later in the year

First in a new generation of Northcliffe websites goes live

New site unveiled as first stage of company-wide revamp

Guardian.co.uk looking to expand Comment Is Free internationally

Comment Is Free sections for other English-speaking countries would be a 'natural progression', says digital head

Chris Anderson: Journalism jobs will be lost and news media could become smaller in the digital future

The Long Tail author says news media has to add value above that available from amateurs to survive in a digital future where getting content for free is the norm

Hearst Digital to launch video across flagship online titles

The publisher will use Brightcove to host video content on handbag.com, getlippy.com and the recently re-launched Cosmopolitan site

Guardian podcasts profitable in 12 months

Guardian podcasts are likely to turn a profit in the next 12 months, says GNM director of digital content

Radio audience meters do not restrict content providers, says metric chief

Philippe Generali, CEO of RCS Worldwide,has defended the use of Portable Personal Meters despite RAJAR's decision to end its trial

FT to revamp Middle East web page and launch print edition for the region

Website to carry more dedicated video and audio following Middle East print launch

Future of NUJ's The Journalist magazine 'under review'

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to extensively review its magazine, website and communications department

US newspaper uses CoverItLive to live blog its redesign

The Grand Island Independent used the live blogging service to hold a feedback session between readers and staff

Trinity Mirror Regionals appoints new head of multimedia

David Higgerson, assistant editor (digital) of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, to take on the role

Men's Health adds online TV channel to UK website

MHTV will feature exercise demonstrations and be expanded to cover the magazines other core sections

Local UK newspaper to use Twitter for live sport reporting

Wrexham-based newspaper The Evening Leader to experiment with the micro-blogging tool for live football match reports

Massive web gains for Telegraph, Mirror Group debuts with 4.4m uniques

Telegraph gets record traffic in March, an increase in unique users of 137 per cent year-on-year

Digital magazine Monkey launches website

Dennis Publishing adds to the weekly digital mag by launching a daily updated website

Current appoints UK director of new media

Rebekah Billingsley joins the peer-to-peer news network from Bauer, where she launched Heatworld.com

Number of journalists not in decline, says GMG chairman

Staffing across the industry will not decrease to the extent it has in print as journalists adapt themselves to new media, says Paul Myners

London School of Journalism to offer lectures in Second Life

Students in the virtual world can attend a series of sessions over the next six months

Google must adopt ACAP, says Guardian chairman

Paul Myners, chairman of the Guardian Media Group, has urged Google and other major search engines to sign up to the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP)

Guardian.co.uk relaunches sports section

Guardian.co.uk revamps sport and football channels as next stage of complete site redesign

US election coverage on MySpace courtesy of NBC News and MSNBC

News provider uses MySpace page to aggregate multimedia political coverage

BBC embraces Russian bloggers with Live Journal partnership

A new project sees BBC Russia linked to leading Russian blogging site LiveJournal

Journalism.co.uk launches PressGo, a new press release repository

The new service will enable 'smart' PR distribution to the journalism community

Kluster to launch crowdsourced newspaper and newsroom

Content on The Knewsroom will be decided on by users, who will earn from the stories they back

AP introduces new copyright licensing tool for online content

The Associated Press to use iCopyright's online licensing service to protect copyright of digital content

Poll: Is the Daily Mail's new beta website an improvement?

A wholesale change to the site has been launched - but what do you think of it? Does it work?

Daily Mail launches website redesign in beta

Ongoing trial version of redesign site asks for user feedback

ProPublica bolsters editorial team with five appointments

The investigative reporting website appoints Eric Umansky, Susan White, Sheri Fink, Christina Jewett,Abrahm Lustgarten and Joaquin Sapien

London Mayor candidates bypass mainstream media to answer questions on crowdsourcing website

Candidates challenged by questions from Yoosk subscribers in online debate

CBS launches citizen journalism upload site

TV news network follows CNN in launching a site for the public to upload newsworthy video and photos from their mobile phones

Hachette Filipacchi appoints Anna Jones as acting digital director

Head of marketing Jones takes control of editorial teams on the publisher's digital titles

Birmingham Post bloggers provide newspaper splash

Journalists are starting to reap the rewards of the paper's revamped blogging platform, claims Post reporter

BBC digital boss Ashley Highfield to lead Project Kangaroo

Highfield leaves his post as director of future media and technology to head up the on-demand video project Kangaroo

ITN adds two news channels to YouTube

ITN has launched ITN News and ITN Music News as video channels on YouTube

BBC responds to Cheshire journalist's campaign for online news coverage

The BBC has submitted proposals for a new online news service for Cheshire - the only UK county not to have its own BBC local website

Telegraph appoints new head of community and rebuilds blogs

Iain Martin named new head of comment and community, while newspaper announces blogs and My Telegraph platforms will be rebuilt

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