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The places that the tablets can’t reach
Rupert Murdoch’s reputation as a media visionary might have taken a battering in recent months. His famed enthusiasm for iPads as a news deliver device, however, is beginning to look as if it might yet prove to be as shrewd as his gamble as the one that he made on subscription tv two decades ago. [...] -
Paywalls proliferate, despite their detractors
Comment by Tim Dawson A string of positive recent headlines suggest that paywalls will be with us for some time to come, however regressive some consider them. The New York Times a few days ago announced that it has 455,000 paying online news users – and reduced the amount of free content available on its [...] -
From newsroom to blogosphere – the sexism goes on
Report by Alex Klaushofer. Where are all the women? That was the question behind an NUJ fringe meeting at last week’s TUC women’s conference. A wide range of women gathered from all sections of the media. Shadow media minister Helen Goodman, citing the coalition government’s plans to relieve Ofcom of the duty to promote equal [...] -
Cultural inertia threatens newspaper revenues
New research from the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism lays bare the struggle being endured by existing print media and it tries to reposition its business for a digital age. On the promise on anonymity, Pew researchers persuaded 38 newspapers (mostly in the US), from six different companies, to share a significant body of [...] -
Self-published reporting: journalism’s next frontier
Interview by Alex Klaushofer. Marc Herman couldn’t have been more surprised by the success of his Kindle Single The Shores of Tripoli. ‘The interest in the topic completely shocks me,’ he says. ‘I went over there to talk about Libya, and ended up being seen as something of an expert in electronic publishing.’ Within weeks, [...] -
From frontline to publication – the rise of news e-books
Report by Alex Klaushofer. It’s comforting, if you’re in the words business, to remember that ‘crisis’ denotes ‘turning point’, a phase of breakdown prior to resolution, as well as the more common meaning of a bad time. And now, with the line between book publishing and journalism becoming increasingly blurred, comes evidence that new opportunties [...] -
New download mag for Northern Ireland’s community sector
Report by Tim Dawson. With 27,000 people working in the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland, it is easy to see why Brian Pelan thinks there is space for a magazine that addresses their interests. With the first edition of View now available to download, he is about to discover whether his hunch was [...] -
Public interest journalism takes a kangaroo leap forward
Review by Alex Klaushofer. Today brings the launch of Australian news websiteThe Global Mail, one of the best-funded public journalism initiatives the digital age has seen to date. With a mission to provide independent, quality journalism – strapline ‘our audience is our only agenda’ – and generously bankrolled by Australian web-preneur Graeme Wood, the site’s [...] -
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 [...]