Andrew Stevens

Peter Costello has surfaced in his first corporate stoush since trading Parliament for the boardroom, lobbying Ted Harris, the deputy chairman of APN News & Media, for board renewal. The former treasurer, a partner at the advisory firm BKK Partners, has met Mr Harris twice as his firm tries to secure a vote against the [...]

Advertisers and media buyers are considering penalising websites that use auto-refresh in future advertising negotiations as publishers have so far failed to set rules governing the controversial practice. The Interactive Advertising Bureau will soon release industry guidelines on the issue after the practice of automatically refreshing the content and ads on web pages at set [...]

Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday. A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s [...]

Ahead of Apple’s iPad launch in Australia next month newspaper publishers are pushing for the apps on the device to be counted alongside sales of printed newspapers in circulation figures. Digital editions that mirror physical copies are already able to be counted but must be listed separately from the key circulation metric of average net [...]

FAIRFAX will launch both free and paid apps for Apple’s iPad tablet computer device this year, according to Darren Burden, who is spearheading the initiative for Fairfax Digital. Mr Burden is part of a committee working on Fairfax’s tablet strategy. It includes Robert Whitehead, who is head of marketing and newspaper sales for Fairfax Media, [...]

A quick and interesting read on the Guardian: At the recent Edinburgh International Science Festival, The Guardian hosted a panel event which featured Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell, Guardian Local launch editor Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn of the Daily Record. Guardian.co.uk Information Architect Martin Belam gave this presentation discussing the impact of technology on journalism, [...]

THE global hype over the iPad — and the dozen or so other touch-screen tablet computer devices soon to appear in its wake — has the newspaper industry holding its collective breath. Is this the game-changer needed to save the industry? You can bet that everyone with an investment in the industry, from proprietors to [...]

“Free” is being hailed as the Internet’s natural and ultimate future – as evidenced by a growing cohort of bloggers who insist “free” is the only solution to content providers’ Internet woes. Read more on DynamicBusiness.

Oh hell yeah: AUSTRALIANS could be watching 3D TV sooner than expected after SBS confirmed it was considering broadcasting a FIFA World Cup soccer match using the new technology. That would make SBS the first Australian television network to broadcast in the new 3D — which is similar to that used to film the movie [...]

The Chicago Tribune is kicking off an effort to turn its dusty archived photographs into a shiny new revenue opportunity. “The overall goal is to figure out how the company can monetize its resources that are currently archival in nature – photos, old newspapers,” said Randall Weissman, the Tribune’s news administration editor. “We need to [...]