currybetdotnet: ‘Do online newspapers have a future in a Digital Britain’ – MTM London round-table session
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 07:38
Martin Belam: on the MTM London "One of the most telling quotes during the presentation for me was "There are too many people in the media. You don't need 25 versions of the same story". There were some incredulous laughs in the audience at this assertion, but I personally think it was one of the more valid points. We know we face over-supply of news, and almost infinite supply of online advertising inventory, so where is the business logic in the infinite online re-purposing of press releases and agency copy?"
ZDNet.com: Between the Lines: AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 22:17
Larry Dignan: "I’m not going to sweat AP’s search for rules of engagement for one simple reason: I link to the real source material, which more often than not is a press release. On any given day you can easily bypass AP. And if the AP wants to find a better subscriber business model it needs to adhere to two words: Add value."
Guardian: Bad Science: How the Sun boobed over Britney Spears equation
Saturday, 13 December 2008, 13:44
Ben Goldacre: "[M]y frighteningly anal chums at the Apathy Sketchpad blog have performed quantitative analysis on this question, by doggedly documenting every single equation story to appear in the Telegraph, a serious paper that covers science properly. … These stories tell us nothing about science. They are what PR companies call 'advertising equivalent exposure' … "
Publishing 2.0: Why not writing a story is innovation
Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 16:23
"Newsrooms no longer have the luxury of wasting resources on non-stories — on “the journalism of filling space and time,” as Jeff Jarvis put it. They no longer have the luxury, in an information-overload world, of wasting readers’ time with non-stories or information readers already know. … Filler news can take many forms. … I would add: many stories based on (or directly lifted from) press releases; one-sentence news like stock market updates, shuttle takeoffs, and incremental updates of previous stories; many politics-as-process stories." (HT: Patrick Smith)
Guardian: ‘With the staff we’ve got, we do the best we can’
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:36
Media Guardian visits the Leigh Journal, a local Newsquest weekly which is down to two staff: "When Hulme and Gomm discuss their professional pasts, they sound wistful. The job of putting the paper out means they haven't got the time to directly report on court proceedings and council meetings, or cultivate off-the-record sources. In more callow hands, their paper would surely have tumbled into the kind of hacked-out "churnalism" decried in Nick Davies's book Flat Earth News – but as they see it, what saves them is the spiderweb of sources amassed during their working lives. … "
Monday, 5 May 2008, 09:44
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Adrian Monck make an interesting point in a wider argument gainst a "Flat Earth News" example from Nick Davies: Marketing stories through sensationalism is "journalism’s modus operandi, which is being rapidly superseded by search."
Monday, 4 February 2008, 16:27
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PressGazette a recueilli les réactions au Daily Mail et chez The Independent : « Ah, mais non, nous on fait pas ça, ce sont les autres. » Courageux.
