I find it strangely heartening that hedge fund manager John Paulson, who made billions betting successfully on the sub-prime debacle, bears an uncanny resemblance to ex-punk legend Hugh Cornwell, late of The Stranglers. Also, did you know Hugh Cornwell got a BA in Biochemistry from Bristol University? Nor did I. So why aren’t we seeing […]
Despite the fact the the internet is essentially destroying [if creatively] my profession, I love it. Mainly because in the space of a few days it can create links between me and a journalist in Leeds via a publication I’d never heard of and a blog that he’d never heard of. So thanks to Simon […]
Joshua Benton at the NiemanJournalismLab believes journalism is, effectively, screwed because no one these days will pay for anything online, especially the young who have grown up with the free online content. If you’ve grown up in a free online environment, paying for digital content isn’t just a pain — it’s unthinkable. This is absolutely […]
The FT reports on the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper. The story is picked up and aggregated with the rest of the weekend’s print news carnage by Recovering Journalist here in typically apocalyptic style: This was the week that was–the beginning of the end. Newspapers, as we know them, are dead. Mark Potts’s […]
Of the blogs I read, I enjoy one from a blogger called Coyote in Arizona who periodically fisks journalists for being innumerate, with a very poor understanding of economics. One of his posts from last year took the local media to task for not questioning the dubious economic benefits of a publicly funded new sports […]
Just as Haymarket canned Promotions & Incentive‘s print edition, it also made Marketing Direct web-only. I’m not as sad about this, though I did work on its launch about 10 years ago and have written and subbed on it over the years, so it does affect me. And like P&I, the web-only move means just […]
A sad day for me recently with the news that one of my very first freelance titles is closing its print edition. Haymarket has decided that Promotions and Incentives mag isn’t cost effective to print and distribute any more. I am genuinely sorry. Obviously that’s because I won’t get to write any more thrilling features […]
Jane Shilling in the Times yesterday [UPDATE 11/11/2009: the link is broken because the Times seems to have lost some of its content] did what a lot of columnists do, particularly in what we might describe as the more upmarket broadsheets. She spent a thousand words or so moaning about how tough life is financially […]