yelvington.com: What newsrooms should learn from Kodak
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:46
Steve Yelvington: “So Kodak, the company that invented amateur photography in the 19th century and invented digital photography in the 20th, is on the ropes. There are obvious lessons for newspapers and newsrooms. Here are a few of them….”
Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of the long goodbye: Kodak’s, Sears’, and newspapers’
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:44
Ken Doctor: on digitally disrupted companies’ “long goodbye”: “data shows 44 percent less newsprint usage (and about 75-80 percent of all newsprint usage is attributed to newspapers) over the past four years, according to The Reel Time Report. … I’…
Economist: Online newspapers in India: Papering over the cracks
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 11:34
“The strength of India’s print press is, however, in part down to the weakness of its online offerings. This is hardly surprising. For all the country’s vaunted IT prowess, only 6.9% of Indians regularly surf the web. Apart from a smattering of web-exc…
TheMediaBriefing: The new wave of digital media CEOs taking over old media companies
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:56
Peter Kirwan: “We’re now starting to witness a long overdue exit for [media industry] chief executives of the Baby Boom generation. … We’re also witnessing the rise of a new generation of managers who got their big breaks in the online world from…
New York Times: 2 Long Island Weeklies Wonder About Spike in Sales
Friday, 30 September 2011, 20:04
“[The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review], which originally printed a combined 8,620 copies for newsstand sales, had to print 5,500 more to keep up with the demand, which seemed to come almost entirely from two customers buying up every availa…
AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 17:04
“Interviews with three more former journalists and published accounts suggest that [the News of the World] engaged in a pattern of payoffs aimed at rival newspaper employees. … Although accusations that the paper hacked into phones and corrupted poli…
Press Gazette: ‘UK media receives more state aid than France and Italy’
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 11:08
"A study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) claimed that in 2008 the UK press received £594m of indirect support in the form of VAT-exemptions for copy and subscription sales in the UK. And it also suggests that the gover…
Newspaper map
Monday, 16 May 2011, 08:30
Very impressive: "all online newspapers in the world" on one Google Map, by Great Name of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Monday Note: Read, Share and Destroy
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
Frédéric Filloux: "In recent months, we’ve seen a flurry of innovative tools for reading and sharing contents. Or, even better, for basing one’s readings on other people’s shared contents. In Web 2.5 parlance, this is called Social Reading…
Currybet: News innovation isn’t just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories
Friday, 1 April 2011, 14:00
Martin Belam: "on the web you can find newspapers being accused of failing to invent all manner of digital services, including Google, Facebook, Quora, Craigslist and The Huffington Post. Personally, I’m unconvinced that this isn’t akin to ask…
Telegraph Blogs: Apple announces App Store subscription service
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 13:31
Shane Richmond: "To put [Apple's subscriptions policy] into perspective, here’s what a newspaper pays to a newsagent to sell its papers: about 28 per cent. You can argue all you like about whether or not it’s fair that Apple takes a simil…
Independent: Attack Google too, if you value privacy
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 12:13
Surely you jest Mr Glover: "Google may provide an invaluable service but it actually produces nothing much of value while taking billions of pounds of advertising from newspapers and television."
The Economist: Bold newspapers: The crucible of print
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:53
"The strategies being pursued by News Corporation, the Daily Mail and General Trust and Lebedev Holdings rest on distinct assumptions about what readers want, what they will pay for, and the future of advertising. It is highly unlikely that all th…
Mail Online: Google called ‘deeply unethical and tax avoiding’ by ex C4 boss
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:52
Luke Johnson: "Effectively, Google invests negligible amounts in Britain, pays negligible amounts of tax on its underlying surplus to contribute to civil society, and yet extracts vast sums in advertising revenues. The tragedy is that those advert…
