US: Mobile news market to be ripe- August 14, 2008 The mobile news market in the US will soon be ripe for mass consumption, according to Robert Samuels, Director of Mobile Products, Mobile Web, Messaging, Games and Alternative Platforms at The New York Times."It's been a run away success," said Samuels, speaking of the growth of the Times' mobile site. "Numbers will continue to grow, there is a lot of industry dynamic supporting this."The Times' mobile site, which drew 500,000 page views in January 2007, received over 10 million hits by...http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2008/08/us_mobile_news_market_to_be_ripe.php Online Media in Africa: Tapping into the expat market- August 8, 2008 An interesting and growing market has opened up for newspapers with online editions in Africa: the expat reader looking for news about home from a familiar news source. The print version of newspapers remains paramount in Africa in terms of readership and revenue, but newspaper organizations are waking up to this new medium's potential.When Kenya's Daily Nation launched its website a decade ago, it had a clear vision. The country's leading newspaper recognised that the 1.8 million Kenyans...http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2008/08/online_media_in_africa_tapping_into_the.php |