January 26, 2010
While the newspaper industry continues to debate the pros and cons of paywalls, Stewart Kirkpatrick, former editor of scotsman.com, has launched the first ever web-only daily. Named after Scotland’s oldest newspaper, The Caledonian Mercury, caledonianmercury.com challenges the perception that the internet will spell the death of the newspaper. By offering high quality journalism, it hopes ...
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September 24, 2009
Before Twitter all of our thoughts where focussed into our blog and discussions took place on both our own blogs and other people’s blogs. You referred to other’s blogs in your own posts and continued the conversation that way. Now we see a blog post that we find interesting, Tweet it and then continue the ...
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August 10, 2009
Last week Rupert Murdoch announced that his newspapers would start charging for online content. One of the main challenges News Corp will face is that the majority of their competition is offering the same product for free. All of the big UK newspapers have free content, so the only hope that Murdoch has of making ...
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