Kevin Anderson: For too long we’ve been trying to find a market for the same products that we used to deliver in print, and that just won’t work. We can’t simply write that local council story the…
future of news
A collection of 4 posts
Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis
I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury, the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis: A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s…
Claire Enders, Schrödinger's Cat and the death of local newspapers
There’s a weird triumphalism is the air this morning, as Hold The Front Page points out that Claire Enders’ famous prediction five years ago that half of the UK’s local newspapers would be dead by now: Obtaining a…
Journalists: the problem isn't better, it's different
John L. Robinson spots a great observation about journalism by Stijn Debrouwere: Because the entire point is that journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping up your…