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The commercial blindspot:Funding news

The idea of the weekend – a £2 levy on broadband that can be used to pay for journalism [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/23/broadband-levy-save-newspapers]. > There are almost 20m UK households that are paying upwards of £15 a month for a good broadband connection, plus another

Students don't read newspapers shock!

Given that this is a post about newspapers I suppose that could have been “students slammed for not reading” or “students blast quality of newspapers”. Still, news reaches me that Students aren’t reading newspapers. According to Australian research: 90 per cent of students do not like reading the newspaper,

Video Workload Survey results

So, the responses to my second little survey about video have slowed enough for me to put out some results. I tried to expand on some of the areas from the first survey that had caused debate, in particular points raised by the Newspaper video Yahoo group. So here are

Video Workload Survey results

Update The results of part 2 of this survey are now up. Results are still trickling in but I thought I would publish a few results from my little video survey. Some broad results: * The average length for video is between 2 -3 minutes * The average production time is between

Moving from TV to Online

Mindy MacAdams set down what I now realise was a bit of a challenge. A challenge, because I needed to work out how to say what I wanted to say in less than a phone book's worth of type. In a comment on my previous post about Online

The Times will eat itself

> “Millions of blogs have sprung up over the last year, but a cursory search shows that the majority of their information sources lead back to mainstream media. The bloggers are seeking or delivering insight, but what they need is accurate information on whatever subject they’re interested in. Time

We media has no we.

The Press gazette [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/110506/citizen_journalism__its_still_a_case_of_them_and_us] has a pretty damning piece on the We media conference at the Beeb a week or so ago. According to Martin Stabe , there wasnt much ‘we’ in evidence which is

FT embargo content

Courtesy of Yahoo News – The FT have announced a 24 embargo on content to 3rd party suppliers [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060515/nym229.html?.v=31] meaning that if you don’t get it direct from the FT you wait a day. > The extended embargo is part of

Associated Blogosphere?

In contrast to Ed Wassermans article I mentioned yesterday [http://digidickinson.net/2006/05/16/associated-blogosphere/], here is one from Jason Lee Miller at webpronews [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060515SeedsOfAnAssociatedBlogosphere.html] that suggests a more symbiotic relationship between bloggers and journalists based on his reflection of the recent