paidContent: World Press’ Collective Delusion Boils Over: Respect Us, Dammit
Saturday, 5 December 2009, 12:35
Great comment on PaidContent: "many in the [newspaper] industry seem to be tripping over the fallacy that if something is expensive to produce, there must be a profit-making market for that product. If that were true, there would be a vibrant market for diamond-encrusted buggy whips."
New York TImes: European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright
Sunday, 12 July 2009, 10:31
"Leading European newspaper and magazine publishers on Thursday called on the European Commission to strengthen copyright protection as a way to lay the groundwork for new ways to generate revenue online."
MediaGuardian: World’s largest newspaper forum WAN falls victim to economic slump
Monday, 19 January 2009, 17:17
"This year's annual conference for WAN and its related organisation, the World Editors Forum, was scheduled to take place in late March in Hyderabad, India, but will not now take place."
BuzzMachine: Stewardship v. ownership of our news, money, and society
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:31
Jeff Jarvis is appalled by ACAP: "The most appalling moment at last week’s Online News Association meeting in Washington came when a representative of the World Association of Newspapers showed off a would-be 'standard' for publishers to tell search engines what they may not do."
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 12:54
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Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:19
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Matthew Buckland: "WAN also should be careful. Although it represents a powerful publishing lobby of newspapers and online publishers, the publishing community is anything but united on this issue."
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 09:21
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"[I]f it’s such a good idea how come there is no ACAP compliant bug on either the WAN web site, nor the World Editors Forum (WEF) site published by WAN or for that matter on the sites of other publisher organizations that have supported the ACAP develop
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 18:56
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Aussie rules, college baseball, cricket, rugby, football — lots of major sports are trying to contol journalists’ access to protect the exclusive rights they sell to broadcasters. This issue is not going to go away soon.
Monday, 25 June 2007, 08:58
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Peter Kirwan: "[T]he economics of print and online are about as compatible as Evian and crude oil."
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:54
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Peter Preston looks at newspaper circulation figures: "Perhaps it isn’t demonic digitalisation that’s bringing us down, dear friends. Perhaps it’s just us – and what we produce. And perhaps we’re too damned morose about change."
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 10:48
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WAN: Adam Pasick on Reuters’ Second Life Island, Richard Sambrook on the typology of UGC, and REbecca McKinnon on the unequal distribution of media coverage in the world.
Friday, 13 April 2007, 00:43
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A new WAN web site in support of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May highlights how anti-terrorist surviellance often has been used to "stifle debate and the free flow of information about political decisions" or have adversely affected press freedom.
