Category: News business

  • The ‘broken’ news business

    The future of journalism. That old chestnut. It came up again in a debate I did this week (PRs feeling sorry for journos), and now it surfaces again with news that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble, and editor Phil Bronstein (once Mr Sharon Stone) apparently told his troops that the news business: is…

  • RSS

    In an effort to share more, and using the new xfruits site (HT: JD Lasica) I’ve rolled up my RSS subs (all 236 238 and counting) into one big feed you can just subscribe to. It’s on the left. There’s a couple of quirky subs in there (my folding bike, for example) but otherwise I…

  • Britain’s free online news battle…

    The biggest freesheet battle in the British media is being conducted online. According to the latest stats, the online versions of the Guardian and the Times have both moved up the website ratings. Guardian Unlimited got 16m unique users last month. Over the same period Timesonline.co.uk claimed 11m unique users. Both of these are part…

  • Lucas Grindley spots a potential flaw in the Norwegian newspaper that’s the latest poster boy for making money online…