New Matilda to fold: What comes next?
Crikey is reporting that New Matilda, which launched in August 2004, is to cease publishing on June 25. Editor Marni Cordell sums up the website’s achievements, and discusses its financial plight, in an editorial published this morning: The online media [...]
Media paywalls will target business, not consumers
Margaret Simons has an interesting piece up at Crikey talking about some research on whether people will pay for online content, and the likely move of The Oz to a paywall system. It’s an interesting piece but she falls, like [...]
Of media empires and public broadcasters
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has created quite the stir with his A. N. Smith Memorial Lecture in Melbourne last night. Scott took a pot shot at Rupert Murdoch, characterising him as a “frantic emperor”. Decline and fall of old [...]
The National Times
Fairfax has revived an old masthead for its new opinion site. In some ways, that’s probably the most interesting aspect of the launch – those who remember the old National Times might well also recall the days when genuinely hard [...]
More developments in online independent media
Last week, I noted the sad end of the Road to Surfdom and mused about the future of independent online media. While some things come to an end, other things begin, and I thought it would be a useful postscript [...]
US election: Yes we can!
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
Too early to tell
Crikey’s Eric Beecher was quoted in this Sally Jackson piece as saying online media will not be able to bridge the quality gap that’s being created by the long emergency we’re seeing in the usual MSM outlets. Mr Beecher warned [...]
Guest post by Mr Denmore: The Failed Estate IV – For Whom The Poll Tolls
By Gummo Trotsky on June 15, 2010
Regular LP commenter, Mr Denmore, is contributing a series of posts about shifts in the media and journospheres in the context of this year’s federal election. Mr Denmore has extensive professional experience in the media, and we trust you will [...]
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