The BBC Trust may have a wider role to play in reallocating licence fee money to other content providers if this becomes the preferred option for protecting public service broadcasting, according to Ofcom chief Ed Richards.

With more and more teenagers spurning traditional media, we asked the broadcaster’s commissioning editor Matt Locke about how it is planning to reach them through digital services.

Occasional ads in the Twitter timeline, in a similar fashion to what Twitteriffic users currently see (Twitteriffic runs their own ads on the free version) seems like the only real way to monetize Twitter, aside for premium subscriptions.

I think many of us has come to a point where technology is making us less productive. Think of how many emails coming in your mailbox and how often your browser distract at work. I think people were kind of feeling guilty 5-7 years back when they are brow

Apture says it’s created the “next generation news experience”, one that you can try out starting today on the Washington Post’s blogs The Fix and Celebritology.

I believe that a blog with 50,000 loyal, repeat visitors is much more valuable to the publisher, advertisers — everyone on the business side — than a blog that has sensational posts that bring in 100,000 one-time visitors for entertainment snacks who

While online advertising will probably suffer if there is a recession, I predict search will be the last place from which marketers pull their ad dollars. Why? Paid search is accountable, efficient, and built on a cost-controlled model, making it the most

You know what I really hate? When dozens or hundreds of people work hard to build a town, and then some - sniff! - mere cartographer - comes along and turns their work into a dot on a map.

I don’t know of a worse sign for an industry’s future than that it starts asking for government subsidies (Techdirt). But that’s apparently what Frank Blethen, president of the Seattle Times company, is proposing.

n preparation for its upcoming conference in D.C., the Newspaper Association of America requested some preliminary data from Borrell Associates’ local online revenue study, expected in May.

Over the course of the next several months, I will walk through many of the interesting aspects of the creation of several of today’s major forms of media — including newspapers, magazines, television, movies, and books.

There are a number of new or re-energized hyperlocal efforts out there, trying to crack the code. New efforts are expected shortly from Outside.in and SmallTown.

A busy week for the boss: Carolyn McCall, chief exec Guardian chief Carolyn McCall’s week has taken in celebration and resignation, writes Peter Taylor

Leveraging its ownership of Scarborough Research, Arbitron’s new effort will focus on sending out extensive media usage booklets to consumers on a shared cost basis.

Music futurist Gerd Leonhard has just released an informative video explaining what music 2.0 is and how the music industry should change to adapt to ‘web 2.0′ principles.

You can also get the entire book in an unprotected PDF format by downloading the file from here. No registration is required, and the PDF can (and should be) shared freely on the web.

Google’s ambitious effort to take its bidding system across media might be hitting a bump in radio.

it’s very timely that Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research have written “Groundswell,” a book that illuminates what web2.0 means to everyday businesses.