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Adders puts it very simply to curmudgeon journalists: evolve or die: “…if those people who are pushing at the edges of online journalism – the spaghetti throwers, as George Brock put it – slow down and wait for the rest of the industry to catch up, we might as well just lie down in a grave and, as a profession, die now.”
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“We think it is right that as we develop our services, we provide them exclusively for the benefit of our paying subscribers as part of their subscription package.” more Emap paywalling
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“We’re looking to take our guests to the frontiers of our radically altered near future,” says event organiser Jack Roberts. “Then provide access to strong drink.” Scary.
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More from News:rewired. Interesting question: should the BBC be spending time on twitter and audioboo when they have – comparatively – less reach than web/tv/radio?
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Apple Tablet is on the way. No one generates buzz around events like Apple – and we all feed it by linking to it and, er, posting it to Delicious blog rolls…
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Amen to that: “Prejudice towards digital journalists needs to stop. It sends a message to digital journalists that they are unwanted at a time when their skills are desperately needed by newspapers”
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Useful guide to why B2B publishers should be using social media. It’s a win-win.
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harsh words on the FT’s paywall: “the meter slams down a hard paywall after you’ve reached n pageviews in a given month, and then charges you a very large sum for the n+1th pageview. That’s stupid, because no single pageview is worth that much to a reader.” But if people pay, what’s the big deal? NYT is mainly a consumer propositon not a business one.
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the influence of Demand Media is rubbing off: “Payment to writers for open submissions is 50% of AOL’s profits if the piece is exclusive or 20% if it is not.”
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Execellent deconstruction of some car crash reporting from the Faily Express: “Why is it ‘odd’ to spend time connecting with your audiences? Blue Peter used to send a letter to every child who sent something in. That was time-consuming, and resource intensive, but it made sense because it was part of making sure everyone felt part of the BBC. Which is right, because we all pay for it.”
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UBM boss Levin: “‘We now make more money in China than the UK”
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Twitpic made “between $1.5m and $2m in advertising revenue in 2009 and about $700,000 in profit.”
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“Marketing spend on the main media, such as TV, press and radio advertising, suffered most in marketers’ budgets, with 22% of UK companies saying they cut back on spend on traditional media channels in the fourth quarter. Just 15% reported increased use”
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JC editor Stephen Pollard: “Only those without the confidence to win an argument resort to such tactics. And it was a pretty self-defeating attempt to silence us. Our site was down for a few hours, but as a result we will get more readers than ever before.”
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I’m interested to see what he *specifically* means here. What exactly needs to change?
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You hear this so often: essentially newspapers saying ‘it’s online so there can’t be any copyright’
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to an extent, I’d say yes. People will have different specialisms, but if people want careers they’d better start accumulating useful skills.
