Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter? "Sorry, I don't use the word "media." I don't use the word "news." I don't think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. Today, they are a barrier. They are standing in our way, like a horseless carriage." (tags: journalism interview twitter [...]
Charging for Access to News Sites "And it’s not really surprising that they’re failing to evolve. The decision-makers — the executives sitting atop large non-editorial management bureaucracies — are exactly the people who need to go if newspapers are going to remain profitable." (tags: journalism newspapers internet free future)
Murdoch UK publisher paid 1 mln stg over phone taps "Rupert Murdoch's News International has paid 1 million pounds ($1.61 million) to settle court cases involving allegations its reporters worked with private investigators to tap people's phones, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday." (tags: journalism rupert+murdoch news+international hacking)
Print Journalism Will Survive. Print Industry Not "Doomed" John Hartigan chairman and chief executive of News Limited: "In April we launched Taste.com.au, a new food liftout in our metro dailies, to complement the successful website. The Taste site already had 150,000 members. Traffic went up almost 20 per cent in the first month after the [...]
Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century? "Make no mistake about it, Twitter has in many ways been a boon to the media. It's one more way a story might go viral and it's arguably the best way for a news outlet to get closer to their readership. Most outlets now have a [...]
