I have written a few posts in the past year or so on the state of journalism in the wake of the recession and burgeoning free digital content. There was plenty of navel gazing and head scratching that has gone on and continues in the trade (I currently have 106 bookmarks on my delicious account [...]
Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
News innovation… or extinction?
Latest in irregular series on the state of journalism
I managed to attend two events in the same week run by the organisation NESTA. After being less than complimentary about last Monday’s Reboot Britain event (see last post) I was somewhat concerned about Friday’s News Innovation. I had no reason to worry. This was an ‘unconference’ [...]
What price content?
Our company is now, as with most of the media industry, truly ensconced in a debate over the value of editorial content. And by value I mean price. Media leaders and commentators are awash with words and opinions on the dire effect of the current recession and changes in our consumption of news on high [...]
The world according to Google
In some ways reading the book What Would Google Do? was the perfect accompaniment to my departure from San Francisco last week. It sets out to describe the enormous changes that our near-on instinctive use of the web have already heralded, and more importantly, where it points to the future. All with a central [...]
The future, or otherwise, of newspapers
Off topic post on journalism
Having started my career in journalism in a local newspaper it’s distressing to hear about the severe affects of the recession on the regional press, as set out in a piece in yesterday’s Guardian. The headline is Where the Hell do we Go Now?, which sounds a little over-dramatic until you [...]
