Jun 6, 2008 5:05 AM
Why did Movable Type maker Six Apart sell blog community LiveJournal in December, just three years after buying it? At the World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg, the company’s EMEA VP Olivier Creiche told me: “We already had three product lines of our own ... it’s just not sustainable…
Posted In: Social Media, Weblogs, Companies, Sup, Countries, Europe, Russia, olivier creiche, six apart, sweden, world association of newspapers
Jun 3, 2008 6:54 AM
A panel I chaired at the World Editors Forum at Gothenburg, Sweden, heard how Reuters reporters are using “MoJo” toolkits to gather news, how Telegraph.co.uk is planning to start a mobile web edition and how Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is trying to corner the e-reader market. All well and good, but…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, Events, sweden, world association of newspapers, world editors forum
Jun 2, 2008 7:16 AM
But that’s the spin World Association of Newspapers (WAN) CEO Timothy Balding tried to put on the state of the business in a keynote here at Gothenburg. “They say that newspaper in print is almost dead - well, I can’t see it myself,” he told a packed auditorium of inky…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Events, timothy balding, world association of newspapers
Jun 2, 2008 4:12 AM
Before King Carl and the amazing Swedish National Opera kicked off the 61st World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg this morning, I caught up with Oscar Westlund, a PhD student from the local journalism school, to hear what his research has found about mobile news consumption in our host…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Mobile, oscar westlund, world association of newspapers
Jun 1, 2008 6:48 PM
I arrived in Gothenburg, Sweden, this evening, where the Scandinavian climate is unexpectedly balmy and some 500 newspaper industry execs have gathered for the World Association of Newspaper’s (WAN) annual global congress. The World Editors Forum (WEF) begins in earnest Monday morning and, after the pleasantries from Sweden’s King Carl…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Events, world association of newspapers
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