-- Johnston Press: The regional publisher is closing recruitment site JobsToday’s London sales office after deciding to focus on local advertising rather than job agencies. It places eight jobs at…

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-- Telegraph.co.uk cuts: Does it say anything about the state of the advertising market that Telegraph.co.uk is shedding ad sales staff? MediaWeek says Telegraph.co.uk’s new online sales head Jeff Turner…

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-- E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to replicate the page-turning paradigm of a print newspaper…

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Mirror.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk have refreshed their websites this week, just as Guardian.co.uk completes its £15 million, 18-month redesign. Mirror.co.uk gets a shouty, red-top look that’s big on colour and celebrity…

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After Mail Online’s about-turn, GMG’s GuardianAmerica.com launch and Times Online’s WSJ.com link-up, now the UK’s number-two online paper Telegraph.co.uk has decided to make money from the majority of its users…

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-- Telegraph.co.uk: The Telegraph website is trying to take its content off-site by launching a suite of “widgets”. Telegraph.co.uk/widgets packages sections of the news site in to boxes readers can…

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Nielsen Online has weighed in to the hugely problematic and simmering online newspaper traffic war, which got a filip last week when standardised ABCe metrics showed Telegraph.co.uk had overtaken the…

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Updated: The Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (Jicwebs) says it will undertake an already-planned review of the tools newspaper sites use to collect traffic data. Telegraph.co.uk’s monitoring effect recently…

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-- Guardian: Guardian News & Media has promoted Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson to head of news, business and sport, working across online, Guardian print and The Observer, according to…

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-- Trinity Mirror: The Gazette Live site, which Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) Teesside Evening Gazette launched two years ago with 20 hyperlocal sites, now has 200,000 unique users and 2.5…

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-- Hello: Before Gawker, folks got their celebrity gossip from the likes of Hello magazine. The distinction may now be clear that Hello treats long-form features best while blogs excel…

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Telegraph Media Group is promoting politics editor Iain Martin to a new role of head of comment and community, in a move that integrates the letters and blogs operations across…

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City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…

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The media companies’ R&D lab craze has now spread from U.S. to U.K.: the Telegraph Media Group has set up an in-house tech R&D lab dedicated to creative editorial projects.…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) is steadily winning more content and advertising kudos after jettisoning its European ISP businesses, this time agreeing on a deal to sell ads for The Spectator and…

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- Telegraph OpenID: Considerably less significant than the same announcements from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Blogger last week, but nevertheless part of the growing trend, Telegraph.co.uk says it will, from…

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Telegraph.co.uk is investing in online video in a big way, launching seven new online “TV” shows, The Guardian reports… - Right On (Thursdays): politics talk show, during parliament, featuring Ann…

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Telegraph.co.uk has been forced to bring its community and blog operation in-house after its development contractor was placed in to administration. Interresource had worked with the newspaper over several years,…

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- El Pais: Spain’s top media company Prisa is suing Nielsen Online over disputed visitor numbers recorded for the website of its flagship El Pais newspaper. Nielsen stats prompted “damage…

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- Telegraph: Telegraph Media Group has picked former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) commercial director Alison Reay to replace Shaun Gregory as its digital director. Gregory became Blyk UK CEO in October.…

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And so it begins. Telegraph business desk journalists will be the first to work across The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk throughout the week as the paper takes…

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A fascinating insight in to how News Corp regards Google (NSDQ: GOOG) - Times Online editor Anne Spackman said the search site is ”hugely dangerous”. At a Society Of Editors…

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How much are you likely to lose turning your newspaper into an all-singing multiplatform news outlet? £9.8 million in the second year if you’re Telegraph Media Group. Results found at…

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Journalist-management talks over pay for multimedia reporting have stepped up at two national newspapers, with online cuts resulting from BBC newsroom integration also likely to come this week. - Guardian:…

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Telegraph Media Group has hired away Paul Cheesbrough, BBC’s controller of digital media, to become its CIO, reports Guardian. Cheesbrough left IBM to join the BBC in 2000, where he…

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