Publishing

Post about the art and strategies of professional publishing, from business models to platforms, and more.

Local Newspapers are Doomed Members Public

Or so said professor of journalism and Guardian blogger, Roy Greenslade [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/] on Today this morning. You can catch him predicting the death of local newspapers [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_7591000/7591404.stm] online still.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Local News

What the Garner Hype Cycle Means For Journalists Members Public

- Location-aware apps are rising up the slope of enlightenment. You have 18 months, tops, to start geo-coding your content. Devices like the iPhone and the competitors starting to come from the existing incumbents will rapidly change how people interact with content. We need to be putting the infrastructure in

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Journalists Versus Sub-Editors: It's War Members Public

First of all, Giles Coren unleashed the rage [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey] so many journalists have felt when subs thoughtlessly butcher their copy. The subs then struck back with a slightly whiny complaint about his rude language [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
editing

B2B Blog Traffic versus Nationals Blog Traffic Members Public

I’ve always assumed that, by nature of being from niche B2B titles, our blogs were significantly less popular than those from national newspapers. And then I saw a story on journalism.co.uk reporting on The Times’ blogs and their traffic figures [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Why Media Gets Community Wrong Members Public

Now the big upgrade to Movable Type 4 is done, I’m pulling together a strategy to develop our blogs. At the heart of that is slowing down the expansion of them, and upping the quality (or humanely putting down) those we have. And for those of you who are

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogs

Is Murdoch Right to Keep Investing in Newspapers? Members Public

Golly and, indeed, gosh. An e-mail arrives from one Kyle at The Atlantic, pointing me to the video they’ve produced following up an article about Rupert Murdoch and the future of newspapers – and providing a handy-dandy embed code for me. Now, given that I’m a subscriber to The

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
newspapers

Measuring Engagement, Measuring Conversation Members Public

File this under “how did I miss this?”:Alec Cochrane, one of our web analytics gurus at RBI has been blogging for a little while now. [When Can I Stop](http://www.whencanistop.com/) is of the “occasional post, but in great depth” school of blogging, but gives a real

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
conversation

The Death of the Home Page Members Public

A few weeks back, the BBC published a report about Jakob Nielsen [http://www.useit.com/]‘s latest findings about how web users operate [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm]. As Kristine pointed out, it had a dumb, dumb headline [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Publishing