Simon @ December 1, 2008 # 7 Comments
I was asked recently to speak at the Campaign/ APG Battle of Big Thinking. A few publisher types such as myself were tagged on at the end of a day of agency planners pontifications on life, the universe and everything (there was a lot of quantum physics, for some reason). Anyway, this was my contribution. [...]
Simon @ June 28, 2008 # 2 Comments
Now, there’s a headline to get the pulse racing! paidContentUK picks up on an interesting part of the Lords report on media ownership, which says
News aggregator sites benefit on news gathering done by other organisations, but they do not invest in original content themselves. This is an issue of justifiable convern and we recommend that the Department for Culture [...]
Simon @ May 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
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Sarah Hartley from the MEN did this for a session we had the other week…regardless of who is doing what better than whom, what I find remarkable is just how much innovation there is now in the UK regional/ local market. Completely unrecognisable to the situation a year ago.
Simon @ May 7, 2008 # 3 Comments
This has just been published as an essay in the Reuters Institute publication ‘The Price of Plurality - Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age’ (download the .pdf) which is part of the PSB Review . It was actually written at the start of the year, so as well as perhaps being a [...]
Simon @ May 1, 2008 # 2 Comments
A bit late, I know - but have just had a read of the posts on the Britannica Blog’s: Are Newspapers Doomed? forum. Impossible to read without this from the Onion in mind (thank you SeumasSeamus).
My thoughts? Nicholas Carr’s points about unbundling are on the money (familiar if you have read Blown To Bits). But, [...]