The Observer reports an interesting decision over at the Daily Mail. With the retirement of its television critic Peter Paterson, it has opted to replace him with… no-one. Since television reviews are among the best-read sections of any newspaper, the decision seemed perverse. But, as Peter Preston explains, it is actually cleverly calculated:
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Great post from fellow Good-blogger Kate on the bête noire that is partial feeds. I share her thoughts entirely on this issue. She’s unsubscribing from anyone or anything that only offers partial feeds. Unfortunately for me, since some of my most important news sources (every (?) UK newspaper and the BBC) only offers partial A report at FT.com sums up a recent survey by Jupiter Research. The amount of time devoted by Europeans to web use has, for the first time, overtaken the time they spend reading newspapers and magazines: Print consumption has remained static at three hours a week in the past two years, as time spent online Former humourist and Daily Mail correspondent Keith Waterhouse makes friends with the blogosphere: Seasoned googlers, of whom there is already a vast tribe, are nerds, anoraks and braces-wearers of the worst sort who spend every working moment searching the infernal engine for other people’s blogs. They are descended from a generation of titterers, pranksters and spokespersons An article in the (London) Times newspaper on Tuesday talked about the extent to which newspapers have been slow to embrace the ‘era of unbundling’. What is unbundling? The author, Jonathan Weber, recalls a remark from Bill Gates in the early 90s. Newspapers, Gates said, bundle together a lot of different stuff, local, national and international In breaking news err… yesterday, NewAssignment.net has received a $100,000 grant from Reuters to hire an editor. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen explains the project’s agenda: The idea is to draw “smart crowds — groups of people configured to share intelligence”into collaboration at NewAssignment.Net and get stories done that way that aren’t getting |             | |||
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