Image via Wikipedia In times of crisis in business, you re-evaluate what you do and why. The current debate over the Future of News, which mostly consists of learned sages berating encumbant media executives for not getting “it” and journalists moaning that there’s no “model” that will save their craft or monetise “the internet”. This [...]
Image via Wikipedia It was the title they’d never sell. Despite everything – INM’s massive debt and pending bond repayments, the falling revenue, the potentially rebellious staff – Independent News & Media‘s goal over the last two years has been: maintain and protect The Independent at all costs. But now sell is exactly what INM [...]
Image via CrunchBase The latest accounts to be released from Rupert Murdoch‘s News International, covering the 52 weeks to June 28 2009, say much about the company’s content propaganda. News Group Newspapers, the division that publishes market leading red-tops The Sun and News of the World, made pre-tax profits of £40.3m for the year – [...]
Update: Watch the whole video at this link (not embeddable, unfortunately). Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role of reporters to hold authority to account. All that’s according to George Brock, the recently-installed [...]
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Demand Media is now accepting freelance writers from the UK and Canada – the first outside the US – as part of the first step in a planned European expansion. The company had 7,000 freelance contributers in February, produces something in the order of 4,000 how-to articles and videos a day, serves two million YouTube [...]
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 I’ve been thinking for a while about what happens when the economic unit of value – a newspaper – is superceded by individual articles online, or by online subscriptions.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 14, 2010
What’s the future of journalism? Throwing imaginary Italian food at walls and seeing what sticks? Well, it’s more complicated than that but spaghetti throwing was the metaphorical practice recommended by City University’s head of journalism George Brock at Journalism.co.uk’s News:Rewired conference. The former Times exec kicked off the day by calling for innovation and bravery [...]
When I went to journalism college in the middle of the last decade, the online element consisted of a few half days spent building static pages with outdated web design software. However, the course’s overall core skills were rigourously taught and I ended up in a reporting job immediately after graduating (albeit through somewhat unconvential [...]
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 [...]
