history
Quartzās 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 read the subject on offer, and some days I devour it. The fact thatās itās a deep dive
design
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, yes, that include capturing the best of its journalistsā tweetstorms on there. Laura Hazard Owen interviewed Jake Siverstein [http://www.
Daily Mirror
Cats and dogs lying down together [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/09/trinity-mirror-in-merger-talks-with-express-newspapers?CMP=twt_a-media_b-gdnmedia] ā¦ > The Daily Mirrorās parent company is back in talks with Richard Desmond in a potential deal to take a stake in Express Newspapers, the owner of the Express and
blog platforms
Things I didnāt know [https://vip.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/bigwp-returns-to-london-next-week/]: > 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 million monthly unique visitors, and tens of millions of page views
death of print
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 ā or goes online only? Anyone who didnāt know that day was coming has either been sticking their head in
cats
Stealing the punchline from Peter Yeungās interview with Malcolm Coles [http://www.interhacktives.com/2015/11/05/malcolm-coles-interview/] of The Telegraph: > Thereās no way Iād have predicted the end of 2015 at the beginning of the year, so Iāve no bloody idea whatās going
mobile
Catalina Albeanu reporting on the National Readership Survey results [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/nrs-most-of-national-audience-now-mobile-only-at-4-uk-newspapers/s2/a566249/] : > Some 56.9 per cent of Independent readers access the title only from their smartphones or tablets, followed by 53.2 per cent at the Daily Mirror, 51.5 per cent
commenters
Douglas Boulton [http://dougbolton.co.uk], one of this academic yearās crop of Interactive Journalism students at City, has just finished a couple of weeks as Ben Whitelawās personal coffee tabledoing shifts on The Timesās community desk [http://www.interhacktives.com/2014/12/31/how-to-comment-online-without-being-a-jerk/] , and heā
digital strategy
I donāt really have much to add to the story about the sudden departure of The Telegraphās editor Tony Gallagher. Roy Greenslade has the fullest account of Gallagherās firing [http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/21/tony-gallagher-telegraphmediagroup] ā from a very Greensladian perspectiveā¦ Given that thereā
business models
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2013/12/The%20Times%20Gin-3409.html] Since this press release arrived, Iāve 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
national newspapers
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2013/11/how%20mass%20is%20the%20medium%2010.13.pptx%206-3316.html] A just over three year old device (the tablet in its current form) is found in nearly as many households and the daily paper ā and as the rest of Alan D.
amazon
The internet buys a venerable news institutionā¦ > The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham familyās stewardship of one of Americaās leading news organizations after four generations. Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has