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Explaining journalistic failure
Journalists are very good at moralising about failure. Is the audience unable to appreciate quality journalism? There, there. Have journalists themselves failed the people? O Tempora, O Mores! In business, you would call these product-centred explanations, and they are the tail that wags the dog. Refreshing then, to see a growing media market where failure…
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1970s newspaper wisdom
In 1971 Harvard Business School grad, Robert G. Marbut, approached the Harte family who owned a Texas newspaper group, to ask if they’d back his publishing venture. They turned him down. Instead, they asked him to run the family business, Harte-Hanks. Marbut took the company public and in a year had taken it out of…
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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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Google pays for news?
The Sunday Herald had a good little story: So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update) In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal): Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work? Moonves:…