Tag: news

Yet another tuppence on why traditional media isn’t dead yet

  • January 5, 2011 at 8:45 pm

  • I’ve just read on the cover of Metro that the details of Prince William’s wedding ceremony were released ‘exclusively on social networking site Twitter’. Even Clarence House is bypassing traditional news outlets; so are we finally seeing the demise of ‘traditional’ media? No, probably not. The thing is I didn’t discover this news on Twitter. [...]

Will paid-for news create a new underclass?

  • November 9, 2009 at 5:35 pm

  • What happens when paid-for news content online becomes sustainable and influential, but a significant chunk of people who are currently engaged and informed get news from other sources? (This is a very under-developed thought; I’m only putting it here because it’s too long for Twitter.) I never buy the Financial Times, but I used to [...]