Archives for “The Future”

The passion press: a business model?

I've been all about micropayments lately -- but here's another idea to chew over. I'm going to call it the "got any spare change guv'nor?" approach. ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 9:44 pm.

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20 practical and innovative ways to introduce micropayments for newspapers

A couple of posts ago, while pondering micropayments, I wrote "If my time at the BBC has taught me anything, it’s that ideas are worthless ...

7 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 4:53 pm.

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Why micropayments won’t corrupt journalism

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="158" caption="Small change guv'nor?"][/caption] I'm quite bemused at the reaction to the micropayments idea from many big names. Clay Shirky says: The threat from micropayments ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm.

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Let’s make love, not walls

The ugliest phrase in journalism at the moment is 'pay wall'. Isn't it just the worst possible way of describing what we want to achieve? ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:28 am.

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Three ideas to make newspaper pay walls work

When Murdoch says it's happening -- it's happening. No two ways about it. So when he says paid-for online news content is coming, then I think ...

5 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 11:07 am.

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J-students must stick around and clear up the mess

It's May. And, tough as the journalism market is right now, it's about to get tougher. Journalism schools around the UK are about to spit ...

5 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:24 pm.

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Huff Post UK: Piers Morgan, can you hear me?

Right then, I'll get straight to it:  The UK needs its own Huffington Post, and Piers Morgan is the only man for the job. Is there ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 4:24 pm.

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Twitter to introduce paid pro accounts

Dug away in an article about Twitter in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Stone says Twitter recently hired a product manager to oversee the development of ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm.

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Tipping point: The Big Journalism Bail Out

There was always going to be a tipping point. A moment when a cut back meant no newspaper -- rather than just less subs. Or ...

11 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 9:23 am.

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Twitter Tales: Euston’s choir

I didn't think much of it at the time. In fact, all I thought was that it was shame I couldn't record it happening -- ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:36 pm.

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Cuttings: Social media money, Project Canvas, Al-Jazeera brilliance and brandjackers ahoy

Number one sign you've been doing this journalism malarky for a while is that you don't post "LOOK AT ME!!" posts every time something is ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, March 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm.

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Is the BBC reporting on Twitter too much?

In the last six months, thanks to a certain Stephen Fry, Twitter has catapulted from being a past-time restricted to, mainly, geeks and journalists into ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 11:00 am.

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Video: The end of the Rocky Mountain News

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 5:51 pm.

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The benefit of hindsight: Saving New Zealand’s newspapers

They say hindsight is a glorious thing. When looking back, everyone can be an expert. Should have done this, shouldn't have done that. If you could ...

5 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 11:01 am.

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NUJ follow up: I’m still not convinced

I've been doing some thinking about this whole NUJ thing. My post the other night reads very ranty -- indeed, I guess it is very ...

11 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 4:54 pm.

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Join the NUJ? Why?

A colleague suggested to me today that I renew my NUJ membership. I've let mine lapse since my student days -- the £10 or so ...

26 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 9:31 am.

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New York Times on advances in video journalism

Nice clip here of Ann Derry, the New York Times’ head of television editorial operations -- a title so long-winded I've just had to copy ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:03 am.

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Video Journalism will save newspapers in 2009

In the past twelve months we've seen the amount of people watching online video go through the roof. But, unlike the YouTube boom that potentially ...

4 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 9:05 am.

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The essence of good multimedia journalism

Journalism.co.uk's John Thompson writes: Multimedia for multimedia’s sake rarely works, and is often embarrassing. If you are going to do it, either do it well enough ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:11 pm.

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Huff Post: How Google can help journalism

Here's some more Google-themed newspaper bailout ideas from Dan Froomkin writing for the brilliant Huffington Post. I guess calling it a bailout may be a little ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm.

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Google’s Eric Schmidt on saving newspapers

Adrian Monck pointed me in the direction of this interesting interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In it, he offers some matter-of-fact wisdom about the ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:30 am.

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The Internet: Just a fad

Phewwww! There was me thinking newspapers had to work out how to get their arses in gear and get online properly. Turns out they don't ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 4:25 pm.

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Let’s decide: Newspapers or democracy?

This morning's Media Guardian was a belter. It really was. Loads of great comment, useful insight and candid opinions. It is of course the month of ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm.

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Through the worries of exploitation, positivity shines

Last Thursday I wrote a post about exploited journalism students. There are loads of them. I vowed to make a website so that those students ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 10:00 am.

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