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Thomas Harding of the Daily Telegraph: “Surely it would be an insult to the memory of Rupert Hamer for us to stop covering the war from the frontline?”
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You couldn’t make it up: a story ABOUT a typo somewhere else calls the Maritime Festival a “marmite festival”. Sub has toast on the brain?
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Who is Blunt, anyway? He’s a posterboy/girl for the print is king crowd: “Web first – We really have no idea how to make money from the web but by banging up every story as soon as it is written eventually someone will write us a large cheque. Won’t they?”
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“Although Mr Arnall is not endorsing any companies this year, press releases continue to cite his work in the hope of getting positive coverage.” You mean in the hope of getting coverage in newspapers like the Daily Telegraph? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/6995281/How-to-beat-Blue-Monday.html
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Again, Robert spots the key trend that others miss: “UK internet ad budgets were up for the second consecutive quarter in Q409, as the web continued to take share of outlay from other media, according to the IPA/BDO Bellwether…. So, internet advertising now looks set to resume the growth it was posting before the economy crashed, albeit at more modest rates….”
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Good number-crunching from Sarah. I’m doubtful that that is enough on its own – but that £60k doesn’t include ads, sponsorship and events so maybe with that direct revenue sites like these have a fighting chance.
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Well done to NUJ for hosting a sensible event. One point though: is the money raised by Engadget et al enough to match the Big Media budgets of newspapers and broadcasters that allow a wider, non-niche coverage of society? If that’s the future, get ready for a smaller media.
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“I pointed out this morning that the Express was talking utter rubbish claiming that the BBC was keeping up twitter accounts with 0 or 2 followers. The real numbers were in the tens of 000s.” It wouuld have taken 1 minute Googling this to save them from embarassing error. Will there be a correction? Don’t count on it.
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Good round-up of what sounds like an interesting event. Guido is right about the culture of denial in newspaper: many don’t want to accept how bad things are. What’s Order-order’s cost base compared to the Times?
