Demand Media is now accepting freelance writers from the UK and Canada – the first outside the US – as part of the first step in a planned European expansion. The company had 7,000 freelance contributers in February, produces something in the order of 4,000 how-to articles and videos a day, serves two million YouTube [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
This post is also published at the Frontline Club’s Forum blog… To charge or not to charge for online news? That’s becoming the defining question for an entire generation of editors, journalists and concerned readers at the start of the 21st century. While media owners plead there is a commercial value to their content – [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
So now The Guardian, The Telegraph, NME, Viz and countless others sell – or give away – not just content but software: the great hope of 2010 is that iPhone, Android and mobile reading generally will foster a much-needed shot in the arm for advertising and direct revenue. With readers not that keen on coughing [...]
12-01-09 Update: Steven Kydd of Demand Media has replied to my questions about when Demand will reach the UK, and the answer is… “soon“. He writes: “Your timing is impeccable — we were having an international expansion meeting when your e-mail came in this morning. “The business has been growing so fast in the US [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The Indy could soon be changing hands and dropping its £1 coverprice down to nothing. BBC business editor Robert Peston has been speaking to people close to Evening Standard owner and former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev and he says… They confirm that he remains in deadly earnest about buying the Independent and – more germanely [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The UK is suffering a spot of bad weather. But if you want to know about it, you’re not going to wait for tomorrow’s paper. Are you? The poor weather, which really has shut down swathes of the UK, hits home that the most important trend in news media is and has been for a [...]
