The New Republic has of late played hosted to a debate on democracy and the news media. Hard-boiled readers of this blog will know that it doesn’t believe in the democratic nourishment provided by news content, but is more agnostic on the role played in democracy by media institutions. Seconds out, in the newsprint-coloured trunks,…

Does Sky News want to run the World Service? Well, it does in Australia. According to the the Sydney Morning Herald: A dispute has erupted between the ABC and the subscription television industry, triggered by a call by the pay TV channel Sky News for taxpayer-funded broadcasters to compete with the private sector for government…

More on the ‘micropayments for news’ debate, this time from Wharton biz school profs: Newspapers and magazines, saddled with high fixed costs and high distribution costs, have been hit by both the free culture online and the ease with which their product – which is costly to produce but easy to copy and paste –…