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Category: News

  • The News

    THE News, indeed! – pray do you call it newsWhen shallow noddles publish shallow views?Pray is it news that turnips should be bredAs large and hollow as the owner’s head?News, that a clerk should rob his master’s hoard,Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?News, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o’er,Should tell the truths which…

  • 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…

  • What we call the news…

    What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

  • Online news and advertising…

    Depressing news (not that we didn’t know it) from our friends in the VC business: To get to $50m in revenue you would need 50 billion pageviews in a year, or just over 4 billion per month. The BBC gets a billion pageviews a month. On the figures above, that would bring in about $12.5m…