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

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."

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wait, I'm sorry, I'm only just learning about the chocolate genitals

"My two-and-a-half-year-old grandson eats these and I'd have been horrified if he'd found it."

BUT HE HAS REAL GENITALS

Two-and-a-half is a bit young to be learning about eating a bag of dicks tbf,

The Times loses half its traffic since introducing paywall

Still probably too early to judge, and impossible to know how that compares with their projections, but that looks like a pretty decent result to me, no?

Is there still advertising behind the paywall?

there were hardly any ads when i looked at it during the trial period. i presume they want that to change, because the subs revenue on its own is going to be pitiful.

I bought the Wall Street Journal a couple of times recently and got the impression that Murdoch has in fact changed it for the worse. I mean I haven't read it consistently in a few years, but I remember that I used to really like it outside of the editorial page. Today I was particularly put off by a cover story that seemed to be stealth-blaming the federal government for the BP disaster because BP "relied on" some 2004 government report that said that the effects of an oil spill wouldn't be as bad as this.

color me surprised

My sources say that not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to [The Times] itself—who have free access to the site—are not going beyond the registration page. It’s an empty world.

"Times loses almost 90% of online readership
Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership

(linked to from http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/07/27/london-times)