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Amid all the talk of business models for journalism, I thought you might be interested in an example from history - the collapse of the business model for poetry.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, rhymesters were rolling in it. In 1811, Sir Walter Scott’s advance for Rokeby enabled him to buy Abbotsford.
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Seamus McCauley responds to Ryan Sholin and tells it like it is:
Maybe the elephant in the room is a reluctance to even think of newspapers (or journalism or whatever you want to call it) in business terms. Because if we did, we wouldn’t start with the premise “since we’re definitely going to keep making journalism, how […]
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
