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Tagged with: Financial Times, New Statesman, The Economist, The Times, Tumblr
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Why it takes a “dose of counterintuition” to properly understand digital
In my piece for the Press Gazette this week, I’ve drawn on an article written back in 2010 (an age in digital publishing) about The Atlantic magazine. Why? Because I think it perfectly captures the challenge and the cultural change required…
Tagged with: New York Times, Press Gazette, The Atlantic
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
“There is a craft to making magazines that cannot be replicated online”
A thoughtful piece in the Guardian yesterday by my former boss Jason Cowley to mark the centenary of the New Statesman. In it Cowley, editor since 2008, touches on the marriage (and separation) of print and online and draws the…
Tagged with: Daily Mail, New Statesman
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Posted in Digital strategy, Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
#WhatIsAMagazine
Earlier this month MacFormat editor Christopher Phin set out to try to answer the following, deceptively simple question: What is a magazine? Phin’s contribution wasn’t designed to be the last word on the subject. Rather it was a collection of thoughts,…
Q. How do you reinvigorate a 98 year-old mag for the digital age? A. Hire a 29 year-old former Facebook exec
Earlier this week the New Republic, the 98 year-old magazine referred to above, relaunched its website. Publisher Chris Hughes — 29 and formerly of Facebook — had some pretty sensible things to say about the marriage of old and new…
Tagged with: Facebook, Huffington Post, New Republic
Posted in Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Posted in Journalism, Magazines, Publishing models
Apple must deliver new subscribers or publishers will walk (and six other thoughts)
I spent this morning at DCM Europe, 40 minutes of which was on a panel discussing pricing models, magazine publishing and tablet computers. In a (possibly failed) effort to marshal my thoughts, I wrote this yesterday — seven random arguments on the…
On long-form journalism…
Broadly pegged to the launch of Matter, Jim Giles and Bobbie Johnson’s new publishing venture, I’ve put some thoughts together on long-form journalism and the internet. You can read it over at the Press Gazette in full. Here are some…
New Statesman seeks Assistant Editor
So, we’re recruiting. Full details and deadline here: Job vacancy | New Statesman | Assistant editor
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Previously, I was digital director / deputy editor at the New Statesman, the multimedia editor at Channel 4 News, launch editor of Channel 4 FactCheck, editor-in-chief at Directgov and editor-in-chief of silicon.com.
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