Category Archives: News business

What would Jeff do?

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In case you hap­pen to be a journ­al­ist and Jeff Jar­vis still has you think­ing that news­pa­per prob­lems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy head­lines, they don’t come much catch­ier than this):

First U.S. Exper­i­ments in Elec­tronic News­pa­pers Begin in Two Com­munit­ies; 13 News­pa­pers to Be Added The Need for News­pa­pers A Com­mu­nic­a­tions Devel­op­ment Tele­phone, Cable and Air­waves A Warn­ing on Reg­u­la­tion [pay access]. Con­tinue read­ing →

The return of content (subscription not included)

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FT logoAbout twenty years ago, I went to a farewell din­ner for a young man who was leav­ing the UK to head for Korea. As a news action junkie, I was baffled. The Soviet Empire was in crisis. The Middle East in tur­moil. And this guy was going to Seoul for the Fin­an­cial Times?

Still, gnaw­ing away was the sus­pi­cion that maybe he knew some­thing the rest of us didn’t. That linger­ing sus­pi­cion from twenty years ago was prob­ably right.

John Rid­ding is now the FT’s CEO and here’s his take on what ‘mar­ket melt­down’ has done for the paper brand (as told to Robert Mac­Mil­lan at Reu­ters):

“What [the crisis] is doing for our read­er­ship and audi­ence is pretty remark­able. I think it really under­lines this idea that at a time of tur­moil, people really do need trus­ted guides, and are pre­pared to pay.”

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Google cache and libel

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I have been pon­der­ing fur­ther about Google’s cache and defam­a­tion. Here’s the deal: Google is auto­mat­ic­ally index­ing, copy­ing and stor­ing mater­ial in its cache.

By allow­ing Google to find your site, and not using the NoArchive meta-tag, you are also giv­ing search engines implied con­sent to index your site, and index it in such a way that repro­duces the whole con­tent. Con­tinue read­ing →