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By Stephen Hackett
Category Archives: Journalism
The Next Web Pokes Fun of Paywalls for April 1
Brad Mccarty: For those choosing to subscribe to Pay-To-View, we’re going to make it very easy. You’ll pay for 1 year up front, and we’ll automatically renew your subscription for you. If you don’t want to renew, just give us 90 days written notice, mailed to The Next Web offices in Amsterdam, and we’ll be [...]
Mike Daisey, on Lying
Mike Daisey: When I said onstage that I had personally experienced things I in fact did not, I failed to honor the contract I’d established with my audiences over many years and many shows. In doing so, I not only violated their trust, I also made worse art. This is not the place for me [...]
The Collapse of Print
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic: Call it creative if you want, but this is what economic destruction looks like. Print newspaper ads have fallen by two-thirds from $60 billion in the late-1990s to $20 billion in 2011. [...] So the reason newspapers are in trouble isn’t that they aren’t making lots of money — they [...]
Was Mike Daisey’s Lying Necessary?
Joshua Topolsky, for The Washington Post: Mike Daisey is not a hero, but I’m not sure he’s a villain either. He leaned into his lies to sell tickets to a show, to get on network TV, to make money and get famous. But along the way — either on purpose or by accident — he [...]
NYT Cuts Free Digital Articles to 10/Month
Reuters: New York Times Co said on Tuesday it will halve the number of free articles readers can view on its NYTimes.com site. Starting in April visitors to the website will be able to read up to 10 free articles a month, down from 20 free articles previously. The change comes one year after launching [...]
Newspapers Online
Edmund Lee: U.S. newspapers lost $10 in print advertising revenue last year for every $1 they gained online, a deeper loss than in 2010, as competition from Internet companies increases, a study by Pew Research Center found. Newspaper revenues declined more sharply last year than in 2010 when publishers lost $7 in print advertising for [...]
On NYT Executive Exit Packages
Edmund Lee at Bloomberg: Janet Robinson, the New York Times Co. chief executive officer who was pushed out in December, received an exit package, including stock options and retirement benefits, of $23.7 million. In the last four years, the company only made $3 million. While I’m not great at math…
More on Linked Lists
I’ve thought a lot about this over the last few days. Currently, everything on 512 Pixels would be considered a “post” on a DF-style blog. That is, that the headline goes to the permalink for the post itself, not to the linked content. The most common criticism of this set up is that it seems [...]
Rene Ritchie, on Rumors and Linkbait
I had the pleasure of having dinner with Rene at Macworld, and have to say, his views on covering Apple news are pretty damn good.
