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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.
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Iraq blog…
An interesting-looking blog just started by someone who is heading out to spend eight weeks in Iraq is A Dweller in Mesopotamia. Not clear exactly what the author is going to do out there, and it’s anonymous (pseudonym Briony Tallis, for Ian McEwan fans), so no vouching for content. But early posts look like it’s…
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Journalism – serving your community
Having been raised in what journalistic cliche calls a “close knit community,” I’m deeply suspicious of the glorification of communities in the media. Some of the closest are also some of the nastiest. I take as my text an essay by the great Jessie Daniel Ames, called Editorial Treatment of Lynchings (1938).In a section The…