From today’s Guardian interview with Lewis DVorkin, chief product officer, Forbes Media on the cash-for-clicks journalism model for Forbes.com‘s 1,000 or so contributors/bloggers: [N]ot only do contributors self-publish, but they are paid according to the size of the audience they…
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“Twitter is about leading people to water”
Another day, another former colleague… or two. Yesterday I quoted my old boss at the New Statesman. Today it’s Jon Snow, Channel 4 News presenter and Charlie Beckett who now runs Polis at the London School of Economics and was…
A little light reading
Here, because this blog has been a little unloved in recent months, is a random list of some of the pieces I’ve written for the New Statesman over the past few months: The NS Interview: Bill Bryson The NS Interview:…
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New Statesman cover | Afghanistan | 25 Jan 2010
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Who’s Fingerprints On ‘Hand Of Frog’?
The Daily Star has been dabbling with ‘Le Hand That Rocked The World’, The Times went with a rather clumsy ‘Hand of Gaul’ on Friday’s front page, but there was only ever really one Thierry Henry / plucky Irish heartbreak headline…
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links for 2009-11-16
How search engines are changing us The way people search is prone to rapid twists and turns. It seems to short circuit the decision-making cycle, allowing the user to think with greater agility. [Polis] (tags: Google Search_Engines) Twitter Usage Is…
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‘Painful, crippling and a loss of crackling creativity’: The Observer on The Observer
An unexpected level of openness in today’s readers’ editor column in the Observer. Stephen Pritchard is the readers’ editor in question and he writes about the crippling fall in advertising to have afflicted Guardian News & Media: revenues down £33m in…
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The Week’s Most Read Posts (2 – 10 Nov 2009)
Sir William Garrow And The Power Of BBC Prime Time A new entry in Amazon’s Hot Future Releases in Business, Finance & Law. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: BBC Amazon Twitter) Tweets, Elites And The Same Old News Agenda Has new media reinvigorated…
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The Week’s Most Read Posts (26 Oct – 1 Nov 2009)
The Me, Me, Me Blog Post A self-indulgent blogger writes… [jonbernstein.wordpress.com] (tags: New_Statesman Jon_Bernstein) Not All Social Media Is Digital And that’s another reason why the hand-delivered letter was interesting. It brought home the potency of ‘push’ communication, when done…
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Sorrell On ‘One Medium, One Country’ ITV
Sir Martin Sorrell is one of the Today programme’s go-to men. Every three months, when his company’s quarterly results are announced, the WPP CEO will appear on Radio 4′s flagship news show and offer his economic state of the nation. WPP…
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