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Indymedia signs deal with Daily Mail

Clark Kent | 01.04.2010 02:13 | Indymedia Server Seizure | Analysis | Indymedia | Other Press | South Coast

Following on from the success in out sourcing editorial and content creation to schNEWS, IMC UK has accepted an offer from the Daily Mail newspaper to provide cutting edge reporting on social justice and environmental issues. A pilot scheme has been running for a few days now and has proved itself extremely popular, attracting almost a hundred responses in record time. The new deal will now see a selection articles from the Mail and sister papers promoted to centre column features each week.

The deal with Associated News will further reduce Indymedias reliance on unreliable and unprofessional reporting from activists and so provide a more dynamic experience for clients visiting the site. Greater throughput of content will mean higher rates of return custom and increased brand recognition among a wider demographic.

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper, The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks", and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. It was, from the outset, a newspaper for women, being the first to provide features especially for them, and is still the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female.

Clark Kent
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Happy April 1st

01.04.2010 04:29

Happy April Fools day everyone!

RobA

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Advertising

01.04.2010 05:23

Perhaps it could attract advertising from Climate Camp Tours Ltd - 'Fly the world, attend a conference and don't feel guilty!'

Anon

V funny

01.04.2010 05:41

but sadly a bit too close to the truth - moderates remove these messages in case anyone suspects that we have a sense of humour

Anon

Horror

01.04.2010 05:47

Indymedia signing a deal with the racist paper Daily Mail is a joke I hope

Stephen Lintott
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is that why

01.04.2010 06:21

is that why the posts about the climate campers flying across the world got removed?

londoner

@ londoner

01.04.2010 08:41

"is that why the posts about the climate campers flying across the world got removed?"

it was removed as a corporate repost:  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-moderation/2010-March/0331-5r.html

If someone had taken the time to write it up as an article, it might have lived.

renodnol

Youtube

01.04.2010 09:37

There is a video about this news story that has surfaced on youtube.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=related

Fly Poster

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Because....

01.04.2010 09:45

Indymedia was unhappy with the admission that our IP addresses are being monitored - which is why you should always use a proxy

Jon

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Question for Jon

01.04.2010 11:52

what is a proxy and how do I use/create one?

non techy

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Proxy

01.04.2010 12:59

Just go to Google - search for 'proxy server free' and follow a link.

I am in London but so far as anyone who think I am looking at their website is concerned, I am in SE Asia - or wherever else I choose to be.

(It's easier than flying there!)

Jon

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And

01.04.2010 13:33

My original post has been deleted so you'll have to work out why I was asked the question!

(I love censorship - makes life so much more fun.)

Jon

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viewing hidden comments

01.04.2010 14:04

You can see 'deleted' comments through the following link if you need to see this information:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/448432.html?c=all

Paul Simon

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food for thought....

01.04.2010 14:10

The IP issue on indymedia is not as secure as some people make out.

With just 15 seconds thought.....all you would need to do is log in as a moderator and then you would be able to say the IPs of commentors and submitters without anyone knowing including the administrators. To get such login details, just install a key logger onto a moderator's computer or monitor the unsecure connection.

It wouldn't be inconcievable that such login information is passed onto others for some reason.

Basically, as secure as a wet paper bag - the IPs are as safe as one set of passwords.
The indymedia's statement on security is very inaccurate and actually somewhat deceiving. Thats not Troll baiting - its a fact.

Tamer

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Last comment is true..Indymedia IPs are not safe...the police have many

01.04.2010 16:25

Someone has somehow got hold of the Indymedia IPs. Certain people who claimed "people are writing things about us and we want to know who it is"..have many of our IPs. The police now have them too. Any connection?

anon

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Why are people still having this conversation

01.04.2010 23:50

Dose anyone really think GCHQ can't intercept traffic before it arrives at indymedia ?

It's just about refusing to do their dirty work for them.

Catch me if you can

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But...

02.04.2010 04:50

I'm sure GCHQ has no interest in Indymedia and the fact that the state failed to identify who posted the judge's home addresses - leading to the seizure of the severs - suggested that they are not being logged.

As the journalist Duncan Campbell once remarked - if you think you are being monitored by the police then you almost certainly have an inflated view of your own importance.

The specific claim was made by someone who appeared to be involved in Infymedia that our IP assesses could be seen by the moderators as comments were being posted. If this is correct then it had implication for people who want to post comments but want the assurance of remaining anonymous. If it is the case then they, like me, need to take precautions.

Jon

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