Also posted on my blog.
Last month I recommended Inside Story. Metajournalist Margaret Simons reports that it is off to a successful start:
Yet despite getting almost no publicity Inside Story – which is free to read – already has 1837 subscribers, and around five and a half thousand page views a week. What’s more, a number of its major articles have been picked up [and republished] by the mainstream media.
Interestingly, and unlike a certain high-profile US blog-magazine, Inside Story pays its contributors for their work,
…on a sliding scale. Less for salaried academics, and rates for freelance journalists that aren’t laughable.
That’s an interesting approach. Simons notes that the cash is available thanks to university sponsorship of the project. I’ve argued before that such partnerships are the future of journalistic blogging, and the early success of Inside Story is a good omen.
Simons’ Crikey-sponsored blog, The Content Makers, is also worth bookmarking — “better, in fact, than Crikey itself”, reckons Virginia.
Im one of 1837, as it happens! And yeah, Inside Story is great.
let’s hope they do better than this prestigious journal has of late: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/12/11/1228584998876.html
Heh, LE.
Sounds like they’re offering to max your planck.
It is great to see such a take-up of Inside Story. Margaret Simons is one of the people getting hands-on about the future of journalism issues.
On the subject of The Age, I doubt if their new film reviewer would get paid much on the sliding scale principle:
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The flipside to this ey LE…
Cheers for the heads up, Rob. Looks very promising.
Inside Story was featured in the latest Radio National Media Report I think?
Indeed, Guido. The link is here.
Is that how I found out about Inside Story?. An excellent bit of work but I need and crave more stories from it.