Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tweet How do you get a job in journalism? Get a blog. Well, it may certainly help you, but I’ve just seen a panel of speakers at City University and that’s what they said. Josh Halliday, Dave Lee and Conrad Quilty-Harper told a room of students how they found gainful employment in journalism through their [...]
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tweet It’s here: i, the Son of The Independent, hit the streets this morning. Touted as the first “quality” newspaper launch in 25 years, it’s a slimmed down version of the Indie designed for busy, younger readers who may have never got the paper-reading habit. It’s a colourful read with none of the polemic, tub-thumping, [...]
Tweet Image via CrunchBase An article for TheMediaBriefing, on the parallels between the success of the newly public Betfair – and the criticism it attracts – and digital media companies like Google. Here’s an excerpt… Betfair revenue was up 13 percent to £341 million in 2009/10. The technology underpinning the system is second-to-none. The company [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tweet Image via Wikipedia The headline on Marketing’s website reads: “Daily Mirror’s plans online paywall“. The Twittersphere alights with it-won’t-workisms. The article says: Executives at parent group Trinity Mirror are finalising which content to charge for on Mirror.co.uk and Sundaymirror.co.uk. Final details of the strategy are expected to be confirmed later this year. Daily Mirror [...]
Tweet Image via Wikipedia A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people So says Andrew Marr, formerly the editor of The Independent, formerly the BBC’s political editor, now chief political interviewer and radio host [...]
Tweet Image via Wikipedia Light blogging of late, with the day-to-day management of TheMediaBriefing.com. So here’s an excerpt of an article I wrote today for TMB about CRM and supermarkets, making the point that news organisations need to know much more about their customers, just like Tesco does… Sir Terry Leahy turned around Tesco from a [...]
