British tabloid The Daily Mail is broadening its online presence with the introduction of Mail Online India, reports Roy Greenslade in The Guardian today.

The new page is integrated into Mail's UK website, but contains content from Mail Today, a publication launched by the Daily Mail's parent company Daily Mail & General Trust together with the India Today Group in November 2007.

Mail Online India features Mail Today's logo on its banner, but it also reproduces large amounts of content from its British counterpart; the 'Femail' section, for example, is identical on both sites' home pages.

Greenslade writes that the new page is a "natural move for the Mail's ultimate owner" DMGT, considering its investment in the Mail Today. In fact, as Greenslade acknowledges, that investment is not so large. Indian law places restrictions on foreign media ownership and DMGT has only a 26% stake in the Dehli-based paper. But despite this relatively small share, Greenslade notes that in DMGT's annual report, published last week, the media group has promised to use its relationship with partners as a "foundation to extend Mailonline's presence in the market".

by Lewis DVorkin

Way back in 1983, just days before Newsweek published the Hitler Diaries (does anyone remember that journalistic triumph-turned-disaster?), I accepted a job at the magazine. I had only one request that I insisted be met before walking into my new office: I wanted a CRT (cathode ray tube) to do my work. I mean, how could anyone possibly write or edit a story without one?

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Last week, Google announced that it had created new metatags for Google News that would help identify original stories and consequently, which publication got the scoop. The initiative aims to tackle the fact that hundreds of articles will often appear based around one story, and seeks to credit original stories with higher rankings in Google News search results. This change in ranking won't happen immediately: Google first wants to gather enough data to test the method's effectiveness.

The two tags are "syndication-source," which publishers should use to indicated the preferred URL for a syndicated article and 'original-source' which should indicate the URL of the first article to report on this story.

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Yahoo! will begin producing its own content for the first time tomorrow.

The search giant became a top news source early in the online content game, by aggregating news from outside sources, including news agencies, newspapers and more. Now, having bought Associated Content in May, Yahoo! will begin publishing the work of AC's 400,000 freelance writers, photographers and videographers through the launch of its Yahoo Contributor Network initiative tomorrow, USA Today reported today. Yahoo! has not renewed deals to sell AC's work to outside news organisations, such as Reuters or Fox News; the content featured on the Yahoo Contributors Network will appear only on Yahoo sites.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz said in a statement that she hopes this new network will help the company deepen its engagement with the site's millions of users.

Of U.S. users accessing news content online, about 28 percent check Yahoo, compared to 16 percent for CNN and 15 percent for Google, the Pew Research Center reported in September, USA Today pointed out.