"Borrell reports that Internet “pure plays” like Google grabbed 43.7% of that $8.5 billion. Newspapers tallied 33.4%, while broadcast TV took just 9.3%."

"Borrell reports that Internet “pure plays” like Google grabbed 43.7% of that $8.5 billion. Newspapers tallied 33.4%, while broadcast TV took just 9.3%."

Martin Newland on convergence: "’Badly done, it hits journalism, shuts down bureaux, reduces public interest and sells out in the long term to a short attention span. You create a wider but shallower content pool and your core brand suffers."

Editorial Photographers UK blog rips Roy Greenslade, Jeff Jarvis, Shane Richmond (and Jeremy Dear for good measure) over the NUJ convergence row: "[W]hat’s so cutting-edge, high tech and future-proof about any of these people’s work?"

Ben Hammersley: "[W]hile there’s more news available to you, you’re much less likely to know how it was made. … I think it’s easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working."