Posted by: RFM on: December 11, 2009
Newspapers have become deadweight commodities linked to other media commodities in chains that are coupled or uncoupled by accountants and lawyers and executive vice presidents and boards of directors in offices thousands of miles from where the man bit the dog and drew ink. The San Francisco Chronicle is owned by the Hearst Corporation, once [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 16, 2009
It’s been an interesting and controversial week in the media.
On Monday, the Guardian published a mysterious article which said that they were unable to report an MP’s written question to a minister because a legal injunction prevented them from doing so. In other words, a law firm had stopped a British newspaper from even reporting [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 8, 2009
Interesting article in the Guardian about Google News and how difficult it is for Google to link to news, apropos of our discussion on how Google works the other day (that link takes you to an explanation from the Google Guide).
But one returns to that problem about news sites: the rules of journalistic production are [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 4, 2009
Guardian Media Group is losing around £100,000 per day, according to this article on the Wired UK web site.
They’re coming perilously close to redundancies. A lot of other newspapers have far fewer permanent, full-time staff — but they employ a lot more casual staff (freelancers), who are on shorter contracts and not entitled to the [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 26, 2009
Deciding on a career in journalism today may seem a little like deciding on a career as a blacksmith in 1920. Newspapers all over the world are losing huge sums of money as readers stop buying “printouts of yesterday’s news” and get their news online for free.
The crisis isn’t confined to print journalism. Most news [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 26, 2009
Er, no.
Roy Greenslade: Will star journalists lure subscribers to online papers? |
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guardian.co.uk
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Posted by: RFM on: August 24, 2009
Here are a few stories I’ve been sitting on for a while:
Mountains Out Of Molehills | Information Is Beautiful
Newspaper ABCs. This is an interesting story. Although newspaper circulation figures have been steadily falling anyway, a lot of figures have been artificially inflated by means of the inclusion of “bulks”: giveaway copies you might find on [...]
Posted by: RFM on: August 5, 2009
A few stories worth a gander:
1. Guardian Media Group ponders the future of The Observer, among other things. The venerable Sunday newspaper has an average net circulation of around 400,000, around 200,000 less than the Sunday Telegraph and a whole lot less than The Sunday Times, which has an average net of over 1.2 million [...]
Posted by: RFM on: July 16, 2009
Barber made a distinction between “crafted” journalism and blogs “largely based on opinion rather than established fact [and] becoming increasingly influential in setting the news agenda”. “Bloggers have broken important stories and will continue to do so,” he said.
But he said they “do not operate according to the same standards as those who aspire to [...]
Interesting analysis of newspaper comment by Wired
Posted by: RFM on: July 17, 2009
Wired magazine (UK) ponders why the Telegraph thinks Boris Johnson is work a quarter of a million a year for a weekly column. This article is also interesting for the way it deconstructs the Daily Mail’s team of opinion columnists. Fascinating.
At the top end, the paper employs A.N Wilson (bookish/religious), Max Hastings (gruffly military), Quentin [...]