Is there a thread for the rapid death of the newspaper industry?

Get a feeling that's part of the dastardly plan, though - at least in the short term.

New Times site live at www.thetimes.co.uk now. Like it a lot; v clean. Don't see me paying for it, mind.

Love the fact that everything except the homepage - even the blogs - is behind the paywall.

Georgia for the main text doesn't look great. But other than that the design looks really good - much better than the Guardian redesign.

Paywall still has a handy side-door where you can just reach over and flip the latch at timesonline.co.uk. James Murdoch probably nagging his dad to get it fixed right now.

It's free (with registration) for a month I think, while the main times site is still running, then the paywall goes up.

Georgia for the main text doesn't look great.

Strongly disagree as I am a huge Georgia stan.

I love Georgia as a general font for when I'm writing, but not really for this somehow. It's a bit skeletal looking to my eye.

Well, in general it's gorgeous. There's something very calming about it, very balanced. Maybe the best newspaper front page on the web?

In a world where the content is irrelevant

I also like how prominent the leader articles are. More newspaper sites should do that.

Heh the numbers in the bottom-left "Most Read" box need a bit of alignment...

Love Georgia also.
Some daft use of Flash, including the graphic above the leaders.

Ohhhh the hands on the clock move??!

That is pretty cool, though you could do that with SVG...

'If paywall doesn't work I'm in the shit', admits News Int's commercial chief

The owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star has indicated that he wants to buy the Sun newspaper.

Richard Desmond told the BBC he had £1bn to spend and that he was keen to add to his stable of titles which includes the celebrity magazine OK!

He said he would run the Sun, which is Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, in a manner that was "more efficient in today's market place".

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y9R7_4I-yLk/SmrFTEM_lYI/AAAAAAAAAK8/IOwrylaQtVU/s320/Dinosaur+Jr.jpg

So not gonna happen. I can't see Murdoch selling The Sun.

given that the daily star is a clone of the sun - the last redesign brief copied all their fonts with, i think, the hope that people would buy the star by mistake - it wouldn't make sense for desmond either: he'd have to merge them. but yeah, i assume he's just winding up the murdochs.

Attention sub-editors

massive lol

It's on Press Gazette as well. Genuine production howler.

Dewey Defeats headghgh

headline headghgh in topless bar

"We Wgfgfgfg"

(It'll be on Have I got News for you, doubtless)

ah: "The error comes as journalists across Johnston Press mull group-wide strike action in protest against staffing levels and the introduction of the Atex production system.

"Press Gazette understands that Atex, which allows reporters to input stories directly on to page layouts, has been introduced across Johnston Press titles in the south of England."

http://editorial.jpress.co.uk/Includes/Images/BTJ/front-bed22.gif

fwiw

who do you believe? the bedford time and citizen's website or your own lying eyes?

http://imgur.com/xIC0G.png

News Sharter?

*creature harbours grudge against blodes

LOLLLLLL, blondes

"News Shower" is very Morris-esque.

It's actually the News Shopper, ahem, paper of record in Lewisham & Catford.

Have you noticed issues with crows?

It's only ever guns, crows and crack these days.

Don't forget the foxes. Animals be fighting back.

Crow update: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8208903.CATFORD__Elderly_dancer_reveals_crow_attack_horror/

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/images/1323867/

keen dancer and former actress, you say

she's no tipi hedren

She's Edna Lunt

from IMDB

Edna Lunt:
Letters of Service (2004) .... Dancing Patient

omg terrifying my gf is a blonde Lewisham/Catford jogger. I know someone who'll be getting a hard hat for her next birthday.

Heard magpies do this all the time in Australia, and that they have to wear special hats.... hang on a sec, this might be a dream...

No, it's not.

Erk, just read about the Mirror cutting a third of its staff. Dark times. Though I guess it's lost, what, half its readers during the past 10 or 15 years?

press gazette says a quarter of the staff of the mirror, the smirror and the people? made £70m profit last year as well per NUJ. what a bunch of cunts. newspapers shouldn't be plcs.

This was kind of worrying/a blow too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10278700.stm My friends who work for DC Thompson are based at the other site, but it doesn't bode well, I guess. Also not that many companies that still print their own magazines etc., I think.

The crow attack story really belongs in the "Stuff that looks like the Onion" thread

A STUNNED mum nearly choked on her favourite chocs - after she found one shaped like a WILLY.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01065/sna1523choc280_1065094a.jpg

Last night a Cadbury's spokesman said: "It appears some of the Nibbles have melted.

"We will of course offer a full refund if the consumer is unhappy."