Category Archives: Europe

allmediascotland: I’m Launching a New Newspaper

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Stewart Kirkpatrick: "In the next few weeks, I will be launching a new Scottish newspaper. ... there is a substantial gap in the market. There is room - in fact, a desperate need - for an online, heavyweight publication committed to quality journalism. Scotland needs an intelligent title that uses the internet, not fights against it."

Stefan Niggemeier: Aussichtslos, selbstmörderisch, unverschämt [Hopeless, suicidal, shameless]

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Stefan Niggemeier rips the Axel Springer paywall and the explanation offered by the Hamburger Abendblatt' s acting editor. Quick-and-dirty translation of the best bit: "It can't be repeated often enough: The problem of publishing on the Internet is not the supposed prevailing culture of free content . ... The reason advertising revenue is in most cases, (still) insufficient has nothing to do with readers and their "free beer mentality", but rather with the fact that on the Internet, the media have lost their monopoly as an advertising space. ... The main reason the advertising revenue on the Internet is so frustratingly low: The supply of advertising space is much larger. This is called a market."

New York Times: Publisher Lays Out Plan to Save Newspapers

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Brilliant stuff. Axel Springer wants a a “one-click marketplace solution” for their online content: "What kind of content would come at a cost? Any 'noncommodity journalism,' [Axel Springer's Cristoph Keese] said, citing pictures of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy cavorting poolside with models at his villa in Sardinia — published this year by the Spanish daily El País — as an example. 'How much would people pay for that? Surely €5,' he said."

Sunday Times: It’s not all bad news for Scotland’s defiant papers

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"Last month, the UK Government urged Scottish councils to go back to advertising jobs in local newspapers as well as on their own websites. Scotland Office ministers say local authorities may be excluding up to 40 per cent of the country by shifting the vast majority of their job adverts and public notices online, thereby breaching their duty to reach the whole population."

Observer: Aghast Mail bemoans birth of ‘European superstate’

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Peter Preston: "[Stephen Glover] could go on now to inquire whether it's really good enough for poor editor Paul Dacre to cover an all-powerful superstate via its political staff in SW1. And, to be frank, because nobody bar the FT quite escapes the blight of shrunk or shrinking EU coverage, similar logic closes over all Fleet Street like a vice."

Bloggasm: Gawker to publish Russian translation of buried GQ story critical of Vladimir Putin

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Simon Owens: "I spoke to Gawker owner Nick Denton after the post hit the web. I first asked him whether there were any concerns that the blog would be violating GQ’s copyright by reprinting the piece. 'We’ll deal with that issue when we come to it,' Denton said. 'It’s not as if we’re cutting into GQ’s Russian audience: Conde Nast wasn’t planning to publish the piece in Moscow.'"

The Daily Dish: Self-Censorship Went Out With Denim Vests

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Julian Sanchez: "The .. somewhat surprising thing is how successful the suppression attempt initially was. Because the article did still run in the U.S. print edition of a fairly high-circulation magazine, which hit newsstands over a week ago, and the only Google results for the article's title, as of late morning, were half a dozen references to the NPR story. Nota bene, incidentally, to publishers who think keeping content offline or locked behind paywalls is a winning strategy."