Free Post history Quartz obsesses over Victorian newspapers Quartz‘s daily Obsessions e-mail is a rather wonderful thing, in its randomness. Some days, the e-mail gets deleted unread, because I have neither the time nor the inclination to
Free Post design Newspapers are becoming magazines, and the New York Times is leading the way The New York Times has redesigned the opening spread of the print edition to make it more of a digest of everything the outlet is doing across all media. So,
Free Post Daily Mirror Another sign of the newspaper end times Cats and dogs lying down together… The Daily Mirror’s parent company is back in talks with Richard Desmond in a potential deal to take a stake in Express Newspapers,
Free Post blog platforms The Sun runs on WordPress Things I didn’t know: News UK moved thesun.co.uk to WordPress.com VIP last summer, becoming the fastest growing newspaper site in the UK, with well over 20
Free Post death of print The end of the printed Independent: the shock we all knew was coming For years, those of us who have been thinking deeply about the digital translation have been asking the same question: What happens when one of our national newspapers closes – or
Free Post cats Malcolm Coles on predictability and cat GIFs Stealing the punchline from Peter Yeung’s interview with Malcolm Coles of The Telegraph: There’s no way I’d have predicted the end of 2015 at the beginning of
Free Post mobile Welcome to a mobile-only world for journalism Catalina Albeanu reporting on the National Readership Survey results: Some 56.9 per cent of Independent readers access the title only from their smartphones or tablets, followed by 53.2
Free Post commenters Commenting life behind the paywall Douglas Boulton, one of this academic year’s crop of Interactive Journalism students at City, has just finished a couple of weeks as Ben Whitelaw’s personal coffee tabledoing shifts on The Times‘s community desk, and he’s shared his experiences: I’m
Free Post digital strategy Changes afoot at The Telegraph: editor out, restructure in? I don’t really have much to add to the story about the sudden departure of The Telegraph‘s editor Tony Gallagher. Roy Greenslade has the fullest account of Gallagher’s firing – from a very Greensladian perspective… Given that there’s an announcement of
Free Post business models Reading The Times on Gin Lane Since this press release arrived, I’ve been struggling to find the words to blog about it: For immediate release December 18, The Times newspaper has today launched a new premium London Dry Gin, called The Times London Dry Gin. Made in very small
Free Post national newspapers Newspaper chart of the day A just over three year old device (the tablet in its current form) is found in nearly as many households and the daily paper – and as the rest of Alan D. Mutter’s piece makes clear, the trajectories of those two numbers are in
Free Post amazon Washington Post sails up the Amazon The internet buys a venerable news institution… The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four
Free Post bundling The Sun's paywall rises (This post will be updated as I find other interesting stuff to add.) Sarah Marshall has made her notes from the Sun+ briefing public. Of note: “We are not becoming digital-first – we sell an awful lot of newspapers every day,” says Derek. And with
Free Post journalism How the media covered Thatcher's death: liveblogging Patrick Smith Storified the traditional media coverage of Thatcher’s death. The key take-away? Liveblogging is the main way the nationals are covering events like this. It’s odd, because a majority of journalisms still seem to regard liveblogging as a niche activity, whereas
Free Post archives The FT fills Tumblr with 125 years of hot air An e-mail arrived from the FT yesterday, telling me all about their 125th anniversary, and with some lovely photos to run – all of which I had no intention of doing until: My journalism MA students seemed to think the whole think was quite cool,
