Jim Marshall argues that newspapers still retain their potency for reporting and commenting on major news stories, despite those who suggest that newspapers are doomed. But this brings with it a responsibility which has greater significance and accountability in today’s ‘multi layered’ world of media – if newspapers are going to continue to be a gateway medium what they say has to be true.
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Yahoo has made a millionaire out of 17 year-old app developer Nick D’Aloisio with the purchase of his news summary app, Summly – and although Raymond Snoddy says it’s great that news is being made more accessible via mobile devices – it’s a little less good that quality, journalistic content is being turned into convenient bullet points.
The Daily Telegraph is set to launch a metered paywall for its website following a successful trial of the system.
At a packed Media Playground event in central London yesterday, David Rowan, UK editor of WIRED, said that exponential advances in technology means that small teams of people can now achieve what only governments and multinationals could once accomplish – in a talk that looked at the future of publishing, the rise of the nerd and the 3D printing of synthetic meat…
With more than 20 million readers, The Daily Mail shows its dominance as a newsbrand in the latest NRS PADD report combining both print and online platforms.
The newspaper industry had already swallowed many tough proposals, but the balance has now been tipped so unacceptably against them that the future course is clear: The Government insists this is a self-regulatory body – if that is so then membership is by definition voluntary and all the leading newspaper groups have to do is…nothing. By Raymond Snoddy.
In the same week a ‘historic’ deal was met by the three main political parties for a new press regulation, Lord David Puttnam has spoken about press freedom, democracy and the future of the press.
News International’s Abba Newbery explains ‘News 3.0’ – a new face-to-face consumer engagement project to help define the future of news.
The three main political parties reached a ‘historic’ agreement yesterday on a new regulatory regime for the press, however the newspaper industry is today being described as “shell shocked”. Here, Newsline has captured the reaction from both the press and major publishing groups.
A cross-party deal for a new press regulator underpinned by statute has been reached this morning after Labour said reopened talks had ended with a workable agreement that could be put to MPs.