adrian monck

Month: December 2008

  • Unrequired Reading {6.12.08 to 7.12.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • The Business Model for Poetry

    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.

  • Unrequired Reading {4.12.08}

    These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:

  • Thoughts on journalism and democracy

    For the next couple of days I’ll be kicking around ideas about journalism and democracy. Here are some borrowed thoughts for starters (and, no, I don’t agree with each and every one): Reading newspapers, and perhaps writing to them, public meetings, and solicitations of different sorts addressed to the political authorities, are the extent of…