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Independent sell-off proves every old media business is for sale

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Image via Wikipedia It was the title they’d never sell. Despite everything – INM’s massive debt and pending bond repayments, the falling revenue, the potentially rebellious staff – Independent News & Media‘s goal over the last two years has been: maintain and protect The Independent at all costs. But now sell is exactly what INM [...]

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Online journalism education in the UK: the trouble with adapting to an online age

Friday, January 8, 2010

When I went to journalism college in the middle of the last decade, the online element consisted of a few half days spent building static pages with outdated web design software. However, the course’s overall core skills were rigourously taught and I ended up in a reporting job immediately after graduating (albeit through somewhat unconvential [...]

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Should quality papers be worried by Lebedev’s free revolution?

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 [...]

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