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Think of a number and double/halve it: the science behind online subs pricing
Comment by Tim Dawson Deciding whether it makes business sense putting online publications behind paywalls is increasingly like finding scientific evidence for the existence of God. Your conclusion appears to be determined more by pre-existing prejudice than from any meaning actually extracted from data. In the past week, Wolverhampton’s Express and Star has abandoned the [...] -
From cooperation to crowd-funding: The case of Port Talbot
Report by Alex Klaushofer. Its bleak industrial landscape was the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, with its population of diverse life-forms evolving new ways of being in the struggle for survival. And now, Port Talbot’s bleak media landscape is … You get the idea. While on the one hand, Port Talbot is the perfect [...] -
Profit is dead. Long live Public Interest: Journalism in 2012 and beyond
Comment by Alex Klaushofer. With the first week of the New Year bringing only warnings from politicians and economists, it seems that wise men have realised it would be foolish to feign optimism for 2012. But while things remain bleak on the economic front, there is at last a glimmer of hope for those rooting [...] -
Under the spotlight: Citizen journalism site Blottr
Report by Alex Klaushofer. Since launching a little over a year ago, Blottr, or ‘the people powered news service’, has been growing exponentially. With regional sites covering eight UK cities including London and Leeds, Blottr has recently expanded overseas, launching sites in France and Germany. Its traffic is impressive – 1.6 million unique users a [...] -
Leveson v. the moguls – can the lawyer who let Ken Dodd slip, outwit Murdoch?
Review by Tim Dawson. The British press has rarely been in such a fix. During two weeks in July, apparently unshakeable pillars crumbled to dust. News International was humbled, the company’s BSkyB deal collapsed, the News Of The World closed and several senior officers of the Metropolitan Police resigned. Buffeted by its own proximity to the [...] -
Download tools – an online newservice for the labour movement
Report by Tim Dawson. Trades unions have not always been the quickest to adopt new means to communicate, in part because of an institutionalised ambivalence to technological change. It perhaps explains why reporting this sector is one that that has attracted relatively few online operations. Into this gap step two recent past presidents of the [...] -
Patch takes on the ‘hood’
Case study by Tim Dawson. When Alex Trebek, the host of US tv show Jeopardy fell chasing a burglar last week he gave Patch.com one of their biggest stories of the year. The San Francisco site of the national hyperlocal news network got the story. News of the silver-haired 71 year old taking up chase [...] -
Niche both a help and hindrance to online start-up Bookbrunch
Case study by Alex Klaushofer. When Nicholas Clee and Liz Thomson were casting about for a new job, with full-time staff jobs behind them and freelance opportunities on the wane, a digital solution seemed obvious. Between them, they had over fifty years experience in writing about publishing and the book trade: Clee was a former [...] -
Back to the future with Huffington Post UK
Comment by Alex Klaushofer. The much-heralded Huffington Post UK last week appeared amid a fanfare as quiet as, well, the one that greets a New Model Journalism launch. Even before the announcement of the death of the News of the World stole its thunder, the response on Twitter (#Huffpouk) consisted of a few cheerfully self-promoting [...] -
News from your street served up by a ‘publishing visionary’
Case study by Tim Dawson. Postcodegazette’s aim is to create a virtual newspaper for every street in Britain. Using mobile technology to map the location of its audience, it focuses on news so local that readers are interested in cars being scratched and the exam results of neighbours’ children. Users of the service – which [...]