I am catching up on my notes from a conference in Monterrey, Mexico – Third International Symposium: Social Information and Communication Technologies for a Knowledge Society – I attended last week. Here are some observations from on a panel on digital journalism in Europe I was on.

Jean-Francois Fogel of Le Monde:

  • Le Monde has 100,000 subscribers for paid content

  • Only 7% of pages online are from the print edition
  • Le Monde had 4,000 comments in two hours on an online debate on the past presidential vote and 90% were high quality.

Ismael Nafria from El Pais:

  • More than 800,000 page visits for a Flash graphic on a plane crash in Brazil since it was published in July, making it possibly the single most popular item ever on the site. This shows the audience like this kind of visual and interactive information, argues Nafria.

  • Citizen journalism site, Yo Periodista, launched in the spring, has proved a success not so much in number of participants but in the quality of the material. Virtually every week, there is material from the public that can be used to complement the work of professional journalists.
  • New pro-am collaborative, knowledge-building project, ParaSaber.com, due to launch in November. The idea is to combine entries from experts and the public on a wide range of topics.

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