Johnston Press has escaped its debts — but it leaves behind angry investors, and hits employees right in the pensions.
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A collection of 26 posts
Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment.
This morning, I’ve written a 2,000 word blog post about journalism and publishing strategy. But, you’ll note, this is the first blog post on here today. What’s going on? Well, Medium recently expanded their partner program,…
Meaning - Bob Doak: the Gore cult of making money - and having fun
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours Bob Doak works for WL Gore & Associates – a global business whose products you’ve probably worn. He’…
#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into…
#leweb - What will Bitcoin mean for you?
The Panel Moderator: James Currier Co-Founder, Ooga Labs & Curator of the NFX Conference for network effect businesses Garrick Hileman, Economic Historian, London School of Economics Shakil Khan, Spotify A potted history of Bitcoin 3000 years ago, people used gold…
Google, killer of tools
Kevin Anderson: Google has had and then killed a number of extremely useful research tools for journalists, and Reader is just the latest. Search Timeline, which showed the frequency of a search term, was flawed but still extremely useful for…
Evernote goes enterprise - a business class upgrade
Phil Libin is a regular at Le Web, and is known for giving hard facts and figures about the progress of the notebook app – as he did in London, in Paris in 2011 and 2010. And he gave some again,…
Dear Superman, about that blogging thing...
An open letter to Superman: Firstly, let’s talk money. I assume you are being paid at The Daily Planet? You are? Well being a blogger is slightly different. As a blogger, you are expected to eat your “raised profile”…