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Ofcom and the future of TV news
Writing in American journalism’s gilded age, Charles Dudley Warner offered this assessment of the worth of a newspaper: Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful…
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The future of UK TV news – a regulator writes
Here are Ofcom‘s discussion points from its Future of News paper (available in full here). Television news cannot be taken for granted on any commercial channel after digital switch-over, because revenues generated from advertising around news programmes do not appear to cover costs of production… …there are good reasons for existing commercial PSB channels to…
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Paid content – the British newspaper experience
My colleague Neil Thurman has spent the last few months talking to online editors across the UK about how they see their businesses. That research, with the snappy title Paid content strategies for news websites: An empirical study of British newspapers online business models, is out now. You can download a preview here. The headlines?…
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Alan Johnston
Good news about Alan Johnston. Relief for him, his friends and his family.