Thursday, February 11, 2010
In my latest post for Journalism.co.uk I look at the relative value of news articles. I’ve been thinking for a while about what happens when the economic unit of value – a newspaper – is superceded by individual articles online, or by online subscriptions. Here’s an excerpt… … One of the problems of this brave, [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
This post is also published at the Frontline Club’s Forum blog… To charge or not to charge for online news? That’s becoming the defining question for an entire generation of editors, journalists and concerned readers at the start of the 21st century. While media owners plead there is a commercial value to their content – [...]
I’m a fan of Blunt, the pseudonymous author of the Playing the Game: Real Adventures in Journalism blog on life inside a regional newspaper. He (She?) consistently tells it like it is and gives a valuable glimpse into how the endless staff and resource cuts have affected papers’ quality. On the raping and pillaging of [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Indy could soon be changing hands and dropping its £1 coverprice down to nothing. BBC business editor Robert Peston has been speaking to people close to Evening Standard owner and former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev and he says… They confirm that he remains in deadly earnest about buying the Independent and – more germanely [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The UK is suffering a spot of bad weather. But if you want to know about it, you’re not going to wait for tomorrow’s paper. Are you? The poor weather, which really has shut down swathes of the UK, hits home that the most important trend in news media is and has been for a [...]
