I’m just writing up a column on newspaper sales, hopefully the kind of thing you can’t say when you are employed by any of them, and I’ll post it up as it develops. I’m thinking about newspaper sales of top end newspapers — because the rate of volume decline is so frightening. Price rises...
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Archive for January, 2010
Numbers up
Go on, let’s censor the internet here then
Just had a nicely alarmist conversation about the controversial King Henry VIII clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill. That’s the one which, if passed, would allow ministers to make changes to copyright law with no further votes in parliament. It’s a boring sort of clause on the face of it, but it could...
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A Question of Independence
Rod Liddle’s candidacy to edit The Independent ought to be over. The extraordinary row about his inflammatory postings on the Millwall website should be enough to make Alexander Lebedev, the Indy’s wannabe new owner think. For those who missed it, he wrote, as reported in the Mail on Sunday: “Why do blacks need a...
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Beehive City
This is Beehive City, a blog edited by Dan Sabbagh. It will focus on media and the media business, and how the media machine influences politics, popular culture and sport. For the moment it’s just a personal vehicle, but the idea is to see how far it is possible to challenge traditional news providers....
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