Journalism
Blogosphere self-satisfied over gagging orders
The blogosphere and twiterati are looking self-satisfied and complacent about the variation in the gagging order against the Guardian which now allows the paper paper to report on discussion in parliament relating to a question in parliament. As Philip Virgo says in his When IT meets politics blog at Computer weekly:
Had Google and Yahoo not [...]
Newspapers
Preston proposes broadband licence fee to pay for journalism»Peter Preston puts forward the idea of a broadband licence fee to pay for jouralism in his Observer column today. Whatever the initial reactions — mine is favourable — it is something which deserves extensive debate.
How to pay for journalism in the future in the UK has become mired in the similar but different debate [...]
magazines
Are reporters really doomed?»I have long avoided making predictions about the future because the one thing I have learned is that they ae invariably wrong.
Reading David Leigh, an assistant editor of th Guardian, yesterday on the question of whether reporters are doomed, I hoped my theory stands up this time.
The media and journalism is certainly changing and a [...]
advertising
Managing the decline of newspapers profitably»Milking mature business that have tipped into decline for maximum profits is an age-old strategy. We have been watching it for some time in newspapers but I have seldom seen it put so clearly as by Alan Ruddock in the Observer today who describes it as, “probably the only sensible approach“.
Ruddock, who is standing in [...]
