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Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences).
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks […]

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Does marketing offer any insights into business problems - especially those of the news business? Most old school journalists would put marketers in with snake oil salesmen, but marketers can be savvy analysts. Ignore them at your peril.
Here’s marketing ace - and my old Dean from London Business School - John Quelch analysing what went wrong […]

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The European Court of Human Rights could be greenlighting the kind of political advertising that the United States has grown used to.
Russ Taylor at Ofcomwatch alerted me to the ruling.
 My caveats?

The Government doesn’t want it
Newspapers don’t want it
Political parties can’t afford it.

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I‘ve been pondering the relationship between journalism and democracy of late, and so too have the academic commenters gathering at the blog of Social Science Research Council boss, Craig Calhoun.
Calhoun asks the question Sam Zell has already answered - What is the future of newspapers? And when social scientists smell blood, they’re mostly rubbing their […]

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There’s an interesting look at the problems of newspapers online by Robert Ivan at Seeking Alpha, focusing on the New York Times. I don’t know about the assumptions - I’ve seen the cost of the NYT’s newsgathering put at $200m - and I’ve simplified it a little, but here it is:
Despite the highest readership of any […]

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My chums - the Carnivores of Journalism (read in tooth and claw) - are ripping apart the lessons for the news media from the online electoral campaigning of President-elect Barack Obama.
Here’s my message for the old news media. You missed a revenue stream. Auction endorsements.
Don’t be fooled by the SMS and Facebook wrappers. This is not the […]

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