Press Gazette on digital editions

Well, on Olive's, anyway. Plus a quote from Waldo: "Simon Waldman ... says the online edition appeals to a niche market. 'It's people who have to get hold of previous copies of the paper or read the paper from overseas. It comes out of our own production system so we are not paying significant sums to a third-party vendor and we are perfectly happy with it, but it's just a part of an overall digital publishing strategy.'"
(From Press Gazette)

David Owen becomes NewspaperDirect VP (Europe)

(From Editor & Publisher)

"They are killing the paper boys"

Times plus Sunday Times amount to 1,550 pages per week (in a single edition/zone). In tabloid. The Guardian comes second. Adrian Pike, head of press at Starcom UK, who made the survey, reckons that when the Guardian goes Berliner, "if they present the same amount of words they will put in more pages which means they would be potentially huge products". Perhaps he hasn't noticed that the vast majority of the Guardian's pages are currently tabloid, i.e. smaller than Berliner.
(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)

WoodWing's SCPro now Adobe CS2 compatible

(From WoodWing)

The future is "semi-virtual integrators"

Eli Noam writes in the FT that news organisations will settle into two archetypes: 1, specialist content providers; and 2, publishers who for the most part operate by selecting content generated by many of the specialists and packaging it up along with a few dashes of content produced in-house.
(From FT.com)

Independent site redesign

Um, where's the search?

British Library's digital strategy

Research conducted for the British Library predicts that "by the year 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print alone by 2020". So they're ramping up their digital material activity.

Net acquisitions by newspapers

Examples of newspapers companies in the US buying up internet-based businesses in the past year. "All of them were for cash, not stock. This indicates to me that the acquirees were more comfortable accepting hard currency, rather than shares of companies in the troubled newspaper business."
(From Business Week)

NYT moves to 45gsm paper

(From Newspapapers And Technology )

Google working on Mac version of Google Earth

But no ETA.
(From SF Chronicle)

Guardian berliner in Autumn

(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)

Woodwing to deploy Van Gennep planning system

Subscription required
(From Editor & Publisher)

Craigslist and "open source journalism"

(From Editor & Publisher)

Garcia paper on tabloidisation

(From Garcia Media)

First North American Berliner

"... Format conversions have gained steam, particularly in Europe ... The staid London Times ... is expected to make another change, to Berliner, in 2006."
(From Newspapers and Technology)