This evening I spent an hour subbing one piece of copy for The Linc’s website. Not because it was spectacularly bad, but because the HTML formatting was just horrendous.
The solution basically involved me having to go through and strip all the existing HTML code from the article and replace it with stuff that actually made [...]
I absolutely have to disagree with Andy Hickley’s argument that hyperlocal journalism wouldn’t be useful because the “big” stories already get covered by the established media.
I particularly take issue with his contention that:
It seems like a lot of hassle for issues that often barely qualify as information.
Who’s making the judgement about what’s important [...]
And why it won’t have any effect on our ‘democracy’.
The collapse of the news industry speaks volumes. It shows that people aren’t interested in the news and, if they are, they’re probably not willing to pay for it.
The corporate (or ‘mainstream’) media is sinking, and is doing everything it can to stay afloat: sacking staff, [...]
I just saw this post on Jon Slattery’s blog about the “Guardian Club”, and immediately thought “hardly anyone’s going to join that.”
That was my immediate reaction, and it wasn’t really about the “club” at all. Instead, it was my ‘eureka’ moment about paying for news. Or rather, not paying for “general” news.
I read almost all [...]
I’m currently listening to Matt Wells interview Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, on Media Talk. At just before five minutes in, he asks (essentially) if people will pay for news.
Mr Barber:
If they feel that it’s distinctive enough and it’s different… you’ve got to be different… set yourself apart from the [...]
