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Less News, More Reporting Paid Members Public
Farmers Weekly colleague Caroline on the sheer rudeness of the coalition government [http://www.nufsaid.net/2010/05/13/take-your-time-its-only-a-deadline/]: > 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
Our Real Problem: The Death of the News Package Paid Members Public
The problem we have to face up to is that just sticking a paywall around what we used to do will not solve our problems on its own (and by decreasing page views, may harm ad revenue and make things worse…. ) We actually have to re-evaluate what we do from
Google News: Newsagent of the Web Paid Members Public
Ha! Less than 24 hours after I made the comparison between Google and newsagents [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/the_murdochgoogle_phony_war.html] in yeterday’s post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs: >
The Content Paywall Ostriches Paid Members Public
To dismiss the whole of the free-to-air reporting, analysis and news-gathering being done on blogs and the myriad forms of social media that exist in that one paragraph is to duck the crucial question of “what do you offer that’s so much more compelling than the work done on
The Obligatory Clay Shirky Link Paid Members Public
Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. It is the law. * *In this case, it’s worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of [analysis of a newspaper in the US](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what it’s
Proportion of Readers That Will Pay For News: 5% Paid Members Public
Sometimes, a good graphic says all that needs to be said: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/pcuk-harris-poll-paid-content-reader-intentions-o.png] Loads more data on PaidContent UK [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-only-five-percent-of-readers-would-pay-for-online-news/] , plenty of good analysis on PDA [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/
Evolving News Online Paid Members Public
OK. Saturday morning task for those of you really interested in the future of online journalism. Grab a nice, strong mug of coffee (or other suitable beverage) and sit down to read this [http://strange.corante.com/2009/09/09/visualisation-for-news-and-community-discovery] : > By and large, news websites still reflect their
Why You Need Comments on Your News Paid Members Public
Any news organisation that’s serious about being accurate needs to read the tale of BBC woe [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/24/when-the-lack-of-comments-damages-your-news-brand/] Paul Bradshaw spins. Here’s the money quote: > Of course having comments on the story would have allowed this discussion to take place in public,