Sneak peak at new BBC homepage

The BBC is working on a new homepage that incorporates Web 2.0 design and features, especially customization, taking its cue from Netvibes and iGoogle.

Guide to Hyper-Local News

MediaShift has a great guide to the various hyper-local news efforts online — from the independent startups to placeblogs to mainstream media efforts.

Multimedia Training Boot Camp webcasts

The Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Training Boot Camp will be available this week via webcast.

Newspapers’ 20 Under 40

PRESSTIME’s annual list of the 20 newspaper people in the U.S. under the age of 40 who represent “the enthusiasm, talent, hard work and innovation that’s needed to carry the newspaper industry into the future” include several people focused on digital media.

Top news sites on Google News

NewswKnife has released its annual list of the top news sites on Google News during 2007.

Topix to offer hyper-local news pages to online publishers

Topix is in talks with online news publishers about expanding the use of its hyper-local editing platform to create quick-fire news pages, Journalism.co.uk reports.

Sky News plans a spring web relaunch

In recent weeks, Journalism.co.uk reports, Sky News has designed Facebook applications, developed a iPhone-friendly mobile interface, called for Second Life citizen journalism volunteers, released a Windows Vista gadget, used social media to experiment with new reporting forms, rolled out technology to enhance online news stories with map-based navigation – and more besides. Sky News will [...]

Top news sites for November

Here are the top news sites for November from Nielsen Online .

iPhone news sites

News sites are starting to release new iPhone sites now. Here are the ones we’re aware of so far.

NYTimes.com traffic surges since dropping subscription wall

TechCrunch reports that “ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof.