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Quote of the Week – 01/02/12

“The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on ‘the strengths of the newspaper’.” Continue Reading

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Twitter could comply with UK gagging orders

Twitter’s ability to block tweets on a country-by-country basis means it could now comply with gagging orders in the same way as newspapers. Continue Reading

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PCC chairman acknowledges the need for ‘fresh start’

Press Complaints Commission chairman Lord Hunt believes newspaper publishers should have to sign a five-year rolling contract with a “totally new” press watchdog in order to reign in “bad journalism”. Continue Reading

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Telegraph titles make 30 redundancies

Telegraph Media Group is making 30 compulsory redundancies across its two national newspapers to free up money for its digital services. Continue Reading

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Twitter introduces country-by-country censorship

Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor tweets in individual countries, signalling a willingness to co-operate with governments as it expands into new territories. Continue Reading

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People Moving 25/01/12 – Press & Media

All the big movements in the press and media industries in the past week. Continue Reading

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Quote of the Week – 25/01/12

“What we took to be the marine’s finger proved, on closer inspection, to be another part of his anatomy.” Continue Reading

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Twitter banned at Redknapp trial after reporter names juror

The judge at the tax evasion trial of Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has had to put the brakes on the recently-introduced phenomenon of allowing live tweets from court after a journalist revealed the name of a juror. Continue Reading

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"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)