Is there something wrong with the way the media talks about online publishing? In the real world, people search for the term “online display” far more frequently than they search for “paywall” (see search volume index in chart above). Yet Google Trends tell us that the popularity of these terms is reversed in media coverage [...]
It’s a bit like watching a martial arts sensei at work. In a choreographed move, Rupert Murdoch buys his daughter’s TV production company for £415m on behalf of the publicly-quoted company he chairs. Result? Barely anyone bats an eyelid. Most of medialand took the opportunity to wallow — yet again — in the complexities of [...]
The sight of Arianna Huffington selling out to AOL prompted scorn in some quarters. Nick Denton of Gawker was predictably caustic. “I thought Arianna Huffington and Kenny Lerer were reinventing news, rather than simply flipping to a flailing conglomerate,” said Denton. He went on to ask whether AOL is becoming “a roach hotel for once [...]
What happens when you put Barcelona’s strongest team up against a mob of 13th century yokels who play the beautiful game in a frenzy, kicking an inflated pig’s bladder from one end of the village to another? The only possible result is a mess. Coincidentally, this word precisely describes the government’s “quasi-judicial” examination of News [...]
To say the least, the notion of “switching off the presses” is simplistic. There will be complicating factors we can only vaguely imagine. Here are a few that might emerge: 1) Print could generate profits after digital revenue streams mature Fickle investors who buy shares in the likes of DMGT, News Corp and Trinity Mirror [...]
So Times Newspapers has just hired Paul Gilshan from BSkyB as marketing director. Gilshan was previously head of marketing for Sky Movies and Sky Box Office. At Wapping, Media Week notes, Gilshan will be reunited with his former boss Alex Lewis, who was a director of marketing at BSkyB before moving across to Times Newspapers [...]
Web-linked touchscreen tablet that repurposes print content unveiled by SkiffIt is thinner than a CD case and is made of a flexible sheet of stainless steel foil that won’t shatter if you drop it. Yet the Skiff Reader, a touchscreen device unveiled las…