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Life after newsprint can be rosy - as The Independent shows

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Life after newsprint can be rosy - as The Independent shows

How is The Indy doing in its post-print existence? Rather well, it turns out…

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indie magazines

Print's not dead - it's regenerating

During one of my lecturing sessions at City, University of London last week, I made the point that just because you’re most associated with digital, doesn’t mean you

Easy question of the week: can online journalism hold politics to account?

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death of print

Easy question of the week: can online journalism hold politics to account?

Roy Greenslade: So, in conclusion, ponder this question: in a world without newsprint, will journalists be able to carry out their central mission to prevent government, big business and the

The end of the printed Independent: the shock we all knew was coming

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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

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comics

Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years

30 years of selling comics in London Gosh, a London comics shop, is 30 years old: So not a bad year for comics, and not a bad year for us:

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circulation

Reach of print newspapers falling fast

Just 31% of Brits get their news from print newspapers And that’s down from 40% a year ago. Worryingly, there’s a rise in those who don’t follow the news at all.

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business models

Failing industry to still be propped up by falling print revenues in 2020

I’m astonished by how many people are sharing this report as good news: At an aggregated level, combining revenues from the newspaper, book, and magazine industries across more than 50 markets worldwide, we forecast that just 24% of revenue will come from digital

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journalism

Is nostalgia for print dooming journalism students to failure?

Merciless attack on print nostalgists from Clay Shirky: The most important fight in journalism today isn’t between short vs. long-form publications, or fast vs. thorough newsrooms, or even incumbents vs. start-ups. The most important fight is between realists and nostalgists. He builds a

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chillin'

Don't tell anyone...

Yes, it’s print. Don’t tell anyone – it’ll ruin my reputation…

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bath test

Want to read your iPad in the bath?

Dropping your Apple tablet into the bath water is a lot more expensive that dropping a magazine. Does this sleeve solve the issue?

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books

Keeping my print past on the GRID

Very, very long term readers of this blog – those who have been tolerating my words for nearly a decade – might remember that I was once more print-centric than I am

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ebooks

eBooks: the purest literary experience

Here’s a stirring defence of the eBook against the “paper purity” brigade: The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our focus on where we are

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editorial strategy

Can we use web metrics to improve print products?

Catching up on my RSS feeds after my holiday, I came across this post in Jeff Jarvis’s blog. One bullet point in particular struck me: *** Some readers are not worth saving.** One newspaper killed its stock tables, saved $1 million, and lost 12

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metro

The Curse of the Collator

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news

Less News, More Reporting

Farmers Weekly colleague Caroline on the sheer rudeness of the coalition government: > It’s taken long enough, but we’ve finally got ourselves a new DEFRA secretary. Caroline Spelman was announced as the department’s head honcho at about 7pm last night. > > If I