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Monthly Archives: September 2009
When Cameron Wins Will The Last Person To Buy A Paper In Britain Please Buy This One
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The Sun Shines On DC. So Wot?
Does The Sun make winners or merely back them? Does it shape public mood or simply reflect it? David Cameron will care little so long as his Conservative Party win the next general election. But the debate continues about the…
Why Moleskine Is The Model For Newspaper Survival
“Get big, get niche or get out” is a hoary old business mantra. For a news media in an increasingly fragmented landscape the middle option seems the obvious one. Niche publications will be able to survive offline and charge on…
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‘I Have No More Proof Than Anyone Else,’ Says PM-On-Pills Blogger
Ever since Andrew Marr put the medication question to Gordon Brown yesterday, the media has turned the spotlight on the political blogosphere. Was Marr guilty of indulging in some web-based tittle-tattle, on the BBC no less? Had he fallen for another…
‘Tory sleaze MP dies of cancer’: Daily Mail Finds New Ways To Offend
I wrote last week about how the Sunday Times’s AA Gill had broken the unwritten obit code when dealing with the recently departed Keith Floyd. Well, judging by this headline from the Daily Mail, it would appear that it is open season…
The Week’s Most Read Posts (21 – 27 Sep 2009)
Is This The Ultimate Daily Mail Headline? It’s such a perfect example of its form that it is causing waves on the other side of the Atlantic. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: Daily_Mail Headlines) Telegraph PM, Premature RIP For DIY PDF? Perhaps this…
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Polanski, AP and An Epic Fail
“Ok, can you do some more probing? New York will want to know,” is an odd way to start a story about Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland. The inverted pyramid it is not. Turns out that the Associated Press –…
UK Newspapers And Their ‘Dirty Little Secret’
A follow-up to yesterday’s piece on the most recent ABCe traffic numbers. In figures released for August, there was a uniform trend downward. On one level it can be explained away by a summertime dip, but I remain sceptical. Now the…
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links for 2009-09-25
Will the 2009 version become the “bible” for gamblers? The PoliticsHome mega marginals poll: Now if only we could find a way of stopping copies getting into the hands of the bookies! [Mike Smithson] (tags: Digital_media PoliticsHome Politics) Google Sidewiki:…
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Why UK Newspapers Miss The Beijing Bump
A brief glance at the graph below shows alarming commonality among the performance of UK newspapers online – decline. The people at Journalism.co.uk collate the Audit Bureau of Circulation’s monthly ABCe traffic data to offer this useful trend line. One plausible…
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