James Harding, the editor of The Times, has revealed a few details about the paper's plan to charge for content as part of Rupert Murdoch's pay wall ambitions. According to MediaGuardian and Press Gazette , Harding told the Society of Editors conference in Stanstead, Essex, that the paper would...
First it was the New York Times and now Rupert Murdoch has hinted that News Corporation may not hit its year end deadline to implement paid content. Murdoch, who owns the Times and the Sun, Wall Street Journal and New York Post (what a great front page; great game), told reporters that he can not promise...
In a surreal moment, the respected media analyst and futurologist Rio Ferdinand has linked the fact that the England-Ukraine match is going to be online pay-per-view to the recent claim that internet advertising has ‘overtaken’ TV advertising : "I read that online advertising has taken over from...
‘The summer’s over, I’ve had time to think about it, I want to quit,’ appears to be the mantra being followed by many high-profile media execs this month. Recession or not, September has lived up to its billing as the month which gets headhunters hearts racing. Today’s news that Andy Brent, group brand...
The news today that the Mail Online is to stop checking user comments before they go live could not only make it the most visited website in the UK, but possibly the one with the largest and most active community. A potentially very powerful combination. New Media Age is reporting that Associated Newspapers...
How much more would you pay for your newspaper? Would you pay £1.50? What if that were linked to online content as well? Maybe, after all, you get a lot of content for very little money. I was thinking this as I started writing a blog post this morning (Would you buy a failing newspaper?) about efforts...
If you had been in any doubt this weekend must have cleared it up. It was kind of amazing. I don't know what happened, but I could not escape Twitter. It was literally everywhere I went: online, in print, on TV and radio. It was like someone flicked (Tweeted) a huge switch. Of course, there was the...
Martin Samuel in The Times today on Tottenham Hotspur and why the club is like the Daily Express. Made me laugh, well they are both total crap. Samuel says that anyone who has ever worked at the Daily Express would know why Spurs are in the proverbial latrine. His reasons are pretty straight forward...
This week all eyes are on ethical fashion and organic everything. And despite a credit crunch we could all be getting greener as a consequence according to Alice Thomson of the Times. Also this week I’m working late hours writing a book for a major publisher on Ethical Marketing & the New Consumer...
