digital transition

Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008) Paid Members Public
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.

The end of the printed Independent: the shock we all knew was coming Paid Members Public
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 goes online only? Anyone who didn’t know that day was coming has either been sticking their head in the

Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years Paid Members Public
30 years of selling comics in London [http://www.goshlondon.com/2016/02/gosh-its-our-30th-birthday/] Gosh, a London comics shop, is 30 years old: > So not a bad year for comics, and not a bad year for us: on the 14th February 1986, Gosh! Comics opened its doors for the first

The FT gets an innovation editor Paid Members Public
The Financial Times has appointed a new innovation editor [http://aboutus.ft.com/2016/01/06/ft-appoints-deputy-editor-and-innovation-editor/#axzz3wOKxDpxR] John Thornhill moves from deputy editor to innovation editor. > Thornhill will oversee the FT’s award-winning global comment team to transform the way the FT commissions, edits and publishes commentary on multiple
The digital responsibility of Generation X Paid Members Public
Gen Xers – or, at least, those of us born before 1985 – have a responsibility, according to an interesting Quartz piece about Michael Harris [http://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/] : > Being in this situation puts us in a privileged position.”If we’re the last people in history to know life before
The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print Paid Members Public
Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: > Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells more in digital than print, and
The future of Future? Paid Members Public
Private Frazer on the fate of Future [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/back-to-future/]: > Future’s future apparently lies in “the virtuous circle of engagement in two core content areas: reviews (when consumers are looking to make product purchase decisions and where we can derive ecommerce revenues) and ‘how
Explainer journalism and digital transformation Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/05/bw-blogging-3751.html] You might have noted a lack of long form stuff on here in recent weeks. That’s partially because it’s marking season and I’m very busy right now, and partially because I’ve actually been publishing some