Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
I think next year, instead of running that newspaper stalwart the Review of the Year, I might suggest a round-up of Front Pages That Never Were.The topic came up after Dan Owen and I had a good hard stare at a splash page the other Sunday night, and reluctantly reached the conclusion that we Just... Continue Reading →
NYT Paywall Working Better Than People Expected, But That Doesn't Mean It's Working | Techdirt "A solution based on giving people the same thing for a new, higher price only opens you up to disruption. A solution based on providing more value for your users that keeps them loyal to you is going to last... Continue Reading →
Q&A: Frank Rose on digital storytelling and media immersion "People have always wanted to involve themselves in great stories. With industrial-age media you could only involve yourself in a limited way - you could read Charles Dickens or Scott Fitzgerald and imagine yourself in the worlds they described. But each new medium has seemed more... Continue Reading →
A new, uh, spin on corporate communications reached me via The News Hook's post How HSBC uses journalism to reach new customers. Essentially, HSBC bank has found a niche in the knowledge market - in this case, how to expand into emerging economies - and is filling it with niche content. The article explains: HSBC’s tack... Continue Reading →
TV station firing renews questions about whether journalists should respond to critics online This issue of having reporters respond to critics online is, says Jeff Soderman, one of courage and trust for publishers. I agree. You cannot cheerlead for your staff to get out on social media, and then bust them over the head the... Continue Reading →
I thought I'd tweeted off my chest the things that appalled me about the 'be first or be right' social media minefield following the shattering horror of the Newton shootings. But then I read this post by Andy Dickinson, and it struck a chord. It made me realise I hadn't blogged a lot recently because I... Continue Reading →
Gloom and jokes as Financial Times Deutschland laid to rest "German business daily Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) bade farewell to its readers on Friday in a final edition packed with gallows humour cartoons and melancholy musings on the revolution in the media industry that sealed its fate. Publisher Gruner + Jahr decided to shut the... Continue Reading →
Leveson inquiry report (full document) Embedded document on Telegraph website. Plus Guardian's more reader-friendly digest of the report http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/28/leveson-inquiry-report-essential-guide tags: Leveson press freedom freedom+of+the+pressPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Kon*Fab wants to break the filter bubble by finding location-based news " Kon*Fab, a new project funded by the Knight Foundation, which aims in some small way to inject serendipity, conversation, and physical space into news. "tags: geolocation Kon*Fab Live Blogging- Digital Journalism's Pivotal Platform? A case study of the production, consumption, and form of... Continue Reading →
» Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users "For some time now, newspaper people have been insisting, sometimes angrily, that we readers will soon have to pay for content (an assertion that had already appeared, in just that form, by 1996.) During that same period, freely available content grew ten-thousand-fold, while buyers didn’t. In fact, as Paul... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 