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The future funders of news
Vin Crosbie takes on the issue of who will pay for online news content. The central question for news content is not what is paying for it, but who. Printed newspapers are not about to go away, but they are managing decline. That means a lot of management time spent on cost reduction and restructuring…
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Are 18-24 year olds just not news consumers?
Online readership figures have just come out from Nielsen/Net Ratings for February (see Jack Loechner‘s post for more). I may be missing something but they seem to show the same kind of trends for news and current affairs that we see in newspapers and TV news audiences, i.e. 18-24 year olds just aren’t natural news…
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An Unreliable History of the News in 500 words
Ever wondered where the modern news media started? Germany, 1450s – Johann Gutenberg invents movable type printing and brings out the Bible. Problem with the Bible? You only buy it once. New translations keep presses rolling. They also raise political problems (like Tyndale‘s translation in England). Readers can use their Bible to make up their…
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Can journalists trust the public?
I don’t know about you, but I get heartily sick of people whining on about the media – its failings, its mis-reporting, its bias. I spent most of my life trying to interest people in the events of the world around them. Some of those I worked with died trying to do the same. All…