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Analysis of new shortening URL services and how Bit.ly will react - Sarah Booker

Bit.ly launches custom URl service for corporate clients. - Sarah Booker

The newspaper industry is nearing victory in its fight to get commercial new aggregator services to hand over a share of revenues from selling newspaper article links… - Sarah Booker

Following three weeks of intense media coverage, the Metropolitan Police has re-issued to its staff members guidelines on the use of anti-terror legislation on photographers, highlighting the fact that 'people taking photographs in public should not be stopped and searched unless there is a valid reason' - Sarah Booker

While the online operation has slowly been melded with the newsroom during the past year under Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, who took over in September 2008, the physical relocation of the online staff from suburban Virginia to downtown D.C. will complete the move. When the dust settles, sometime in December, the paper will boast its first completely integrated news operation. - Sarah Booker

My group ended up with a character who sounded like she had a great job, but it certainly wasn't the traditional junior reporter role. She had to be nimble across multiple media outlets, and not be afraid to use new technologies as they emerged. She needed to be a domain expert in her niche, and work tirelessly to ensure that she was the #1 'go to' person in that vertical. She acted as a 'social network' in herself, allowing the audience consuming her digital presence to meet like-minded people, and directing them to stories of interest, regardless of whether they were her original reporting or not. - Sarah Booker

"I like the idea, but fear news organisations will not have the personnel available to answer the questions, what with all the job losses etc." - Sarah Booker

The abuse of section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is an established part of British life and is affecting the work of professional photographers and journalists, as well as the pleasure of amateurs. - Sarah Booker

Guardian journalist Paul Lewis films police and security guards preventing him from filming London's gerkin. - Sarah Booker

Last week, ACPO put out a strongly worded statement to all forces in England and Wales warning against over-use of anti-terror laws to question and search innocent photographers. - Sarah Booker

Rather than criticise journalists for the puerile pseudo news presented in populist programmes, this blog backs the journalists and shames the management. It inspires me to write a blog about this issue. - Sarah Booker

The existence of hyperlocal news is morally vital. The accelerating decline of local newspapers leaves a dangerous void in its wake - a void in which, as Clay Shirky has predicted, 'casual endemic corruption' flourishes in the absence of a fierce journalistic watchdog. Thus there is a 'need' for hyperlocal news. That need, it is believed, will be served by a new breed of 'citizen journalists' blogging from their bedrooms - Sarah Booker

The promise for hyperlocal’s place in UK news is there, the boundless optimism is not in doubt and there’s even hints of a local business model emerging. But the delivery of quality post-code level news across most of the country still a long way off, and sustainable revenues and—dare we say it—profits are even further. - Sarah Booker

Google describes Living Stories as “an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment.” The goal is to create specific pages where you can view all of the coverage on a story. - Sarah Booker

Press Gazette’s Wire blog has reported on a story in the Telegraph giving tips on how to survive your website no longer being indexed by the search engine. - Sarah Booker

George Brock, and head of journalism at City University suggested that sports news will be in the centre of the "chaotic" experience of charging online. "Sport will be important to charging because it is extremely compelling material," he said. - Sarah Booker

Specialty publications have embraced the freemium model, to a certain degree of success. ESPN has 'ESPN Insider' while journals like Nature, Science and the Lancet medical journal have their own limited-access sections for premium subscribers. As mentioned in many other places, specialty and niche news have the best chance of successful paywalls. - Sarah Booker

"First, media companies need to give people the news they want. I can't tell you how many papers I have visited where they have a wall of journalism prizes—and a rapidly declining circulation. This tells me the editors are producing news for themselves—instead of news that is relevant to their customers. A news organization's most important asset is the trust it has with its readers, a bond that reflects the readers' confidence that editors are looking out for their needs and interests." But is what the people want, what they need? - Sarah Booker

When Reuters reported that consumers would have to face up to the fact that the digital content they’d enjoyed for free would eventually come with a price tag, journalist Robert MacMillan asked media executives how they read their news. He found that plenty of them – those, he reminds us, who are trying to find the ways to generate money from what they produce – still read free news. - Sarah Booker

Relatively few extraordinary or celebrity-ridden cases are written about at length - Sarah Booker

To save money, I recently stopped buying newspapers and got all of my news online. I was satisfied. At least until I took a writing test for a job recently and found I was all too 'news poor.' Now I'm back into print. Ted Knutson outside the paywall - Sarah Booker

No, a paywall keeps Google out unless the publisher decides to let it in and chooses to join first click free. Google respects paywalls, unless the publisher asks Google to index its content and voluntarily implements first-click free. - Sarah Booker

No, a paywall keeps Google out unless the publisher decides to let it in and chooses to join first click free. Google respects paywalls, unless the publisher asks Google to index its content and voluntarily implements first-click free. - Sarah Booker

a five-point plan of generating revenue from the digital output whilst protecting the print product, particularly of use to those publishers who operate within tourist towns: - Sarah Booker

A warped look at where newspapers and the Internet stand more than a decade after we met, staring awkwardly across the dance floor. - Sarah Booker

We don’t yet know what the market will demand and support from journalism…. News will look disordered and messy…. There will be more failures than successes in the immediate future of news… - Sarah Booker

The readers on the far left are not highly engaged with your site, many are one-time visitors even if they are local. But, there are a lot of them! The readers on the far right are highly engaged, mostly local but they are probably too few to build a subscription model with. - Sarah Booker

Most of those visitors come once or twice, probably following a link from a search engine or another website. They're looking for something very specific. They find it (or not) and leave. - Sarah Booker

Potential of free wifi services - Sarah Booker

Because I really want that Flip, and I'm quite keen to go to newsrewired, too. - Sarah Booker

Thoughts about the paywall introduced by The Witness in South Africa - Sarah Booker