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New research: the US audience for British news
My City University colleague Neil Thurman has been busy looking at the impact of British news websites in the United States. And maybe it’s time for the tipping of web pages into the Second Life equivalent of Boston Harbour. Here’s what he found: – Online, the BBC News website gets more US readers than Fox…
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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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What don’t journalists need to know?
Do journalists need to know programming code? In all the blogospheric excitement, it’s easy to imagine that young journalists are empty vessels into which statistics, programme code, audio-visual editing, camera-work, law, and – most important – fake sincerity can be poured before being squeezed into the 24/7 roster moulds that managing editors have waiting for…
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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:…