2005 News On Digital Media & The AOP

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AOP director advises future entrants to digital media industry

Alex White, director of AOPAlexandra White, director of AOP, represented online publishing employers at a conference for students on Monday 24 October, organised by the MediaGuardi ...more

BBC online chief urges publishers to focus on functionality

Speaking at the AOP Online Publishing Conference 2005 on Friday 7 October, director of new media and technology for the BBC, Ashley Highfield claimed that a fundamental shift in mi ...more

People will not pay for quality of information

claimed Bill Grueskin, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, addressing 250 delegates from the online publishing industry at the AOP conference on Friday 7 October. more

Blogs and user-generated content bring rewards for publishers

"All they do is chat: are they any use to us?" This was the typical reaction encountered by Dave Killeen, head of communities for Associated New Media, when he set about convincing ...more

Broadband advances

Broadband technology offers online publishers unique opportunities to charge for content, and broadband users tend to be exactly the audience that advertisers want to target, accor ...more

BBC to offer online journalism bursary in honour of Ivan Noble

BBC News has announced a new bursary for journalists to work on its website in honour of Ivan Noble, the science and technology reporter who died of a brain tumour earlier this yea ...more

Publishers mobilised at AOP forum

With mobile phones in the UK set to shortly outnumber people, publishers have been urged to grasp the developing opportunities that mobile content can offer, during an AOP forum on ...more

AOP urges online publishers to explore geo-targeting

AOP is calling for web publishers to make more of the benefits of targeting content based on location following an AOP briefing to address the applications of geo-targeting on 16 M ...more