No industry can be as self important as the newspaper business. OK, maybe TV. And, I suppose, if politics is a business (which it all to frequently appears to be) then that deserves a mention, too. But journalism – a trade designed to make a mountain out of a molehill – has a habit of [...]
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If anyone else talks about paywalls I’m going to punch them
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on January 29, 2010
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/if-anyone-else-talks-about-paywalls-im-going-to-punch-them/
How to make news playable
As part of my online journalism studies I have to come up with an ‘experimental portfolio’. This, according to Paul Bradshaw, our course leader, is to explore around the fringes of online journalism knowledge. As a former sub editor, I’ve never been comfortable with uncertainty. I like things to have been written down many, many [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 11, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/how-to-make-news-playable/
Will disco dads save the local newspaper business?
Roger Green is one of the most important men in local online journalism in Britain. As the boss of Newsquest‘s digital division, he’s the head honcho for more than 150 newspaper websites up and down the country. Remarkably, however, Roger isn’t too enamoured with all the fuss about clever-clever technologies and is more than a [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 10, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/will-disco-dads-save-the-local-newspaper-business/