paidContent:UK: Trinity’s Bailey Still Fighting Google, ‘Unique Users Don’t Pay Wages’
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 08:21
Sly Bailey: "Move away from the general, commoditised packages of news and concentrate on our areas of content where we have unique and intrinsic value. It means rejecting the relentless quest for a gazillion unique users, focusing instead on delivering loyal valuable readers … Let me tell you, unique users don’t pay the wages.”
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Big newspaper websites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 08:18
Trinity Mirror chief exec Sly Bailey: "By creating gargantuan national newspaper websites designed to harness users by the tens of millions, by performing well on search engines like Google, we have eroded the value of news … News has become ubiquitous. Completely commoditised. Without value to anyone. Other than us as publishers, because we pay for it."
