It would be a fine system, if every other large online newspaper wasn't completely free.Oh, I read my 20 articles? Guess I'll head over to CNN, NPR, USA Today, BBC, etc etc
― juicebox, Thursday, 17 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't they try that before and lose a ton of money
― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
No, that was a case of them thinking the world was dying to pay lots of money for the insightful wit and wisdom of Maureen O'Dowd.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
"For the next three weeks Jay Leno stands in for Jeremy Clarkson"
Well done The Sunday Times, repurposing columns from your sister US papers for a country that has no clue who Jay Leno is.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 20 March 2011 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
you know who jay leno is, i know who jay leno is, and i don't think we're so bleedin exceptional (besides, he's been on top gear so i'm guessing that's part of the reason for the substitution)
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 20 March 2011 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Suppose Clarkson's column being printed in the New York Post would make less sense.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 20 March 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Jay Leno's quite well known to Top Gear viewers, and Sunday Times readers aren't yer "no idea what goes on in other countries" types, as a rule.
― ailsa, Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Belatedly catching up with the Society of News Design's best newspaper design winner for 2010. Portugual's i launched in 2009 - phenomenal work to turn this kind of thing around daily:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmarques_/sets/72157625931753217/
― Alba, Sunday, 27 March 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
HOUSES THAT LOOK LIKE PEOPLE
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 31 March 2011 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lebedev paid too much imho
― Romford Spring (DG), Thursday, 31 March 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Daily Sport and Sunday Sport cease publication and calls in administrators
― Alba, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=46915&c=1
RIP. they would have to do this on april fool's day, confusing the boundaries of fact and fiction even in their death throes.
― joe, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
rot in piss
― black bloc bologna (blueski), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Sad for the staff and their families, but this is a great opportunity for other newspapers to pick up some of their readers. I hope the Guardian has a strategy fot this.
― Alba, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a newspaper?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Worst front page splash ever?
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week1/15965386.jpg
Terrible nonsensical headline and a photo of a 14 year-old fruity girl? Plus points for the double Roo joke, though.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 4 April 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree.
(except unsure what 'fruity' means here)
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 April 2011 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
A Private Eye term for the sort of teenager who gets her picture on the front of the Telegraph on A level results day.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 4 April 2011 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week3/15976393.jpg
Feed her some fruit.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/apr/27/guardian-local-update
Guardian kills its local project because it's "not sustainable". Where does that thinking end then, eh?
― stet, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd guess that Dave Hill's London blog is safe, though.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the guardian as a whole isn't sustainable. they should give a better reason why they picked this from among their many unprofitable activities.
― joe, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooh, a big gypsy sex cheat!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Weird how they don't explain AT ALL what the criteria for continuing it were, why those criteria weren't met, etc.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
There are still jobs for journalism majors out there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/09/daily-record-mediabusiness?CMP=twt_fd
In June 2001, the Record was selling an average of 596,000 copies a day. In April this year, the latest ABC figure, it sold just 312,000. [...]I can see that the Record, in concert with all the red-tops in Britain, has lost its way - and there is no apparent turning back.So, and I know this is going to upset the journalists who work there (plus others who don't), there is no genuine point to the Record.I have no especial brief for Trinity Mirror - as I must have made clear endless numbers of times on this blog - but its willingness to continue publishing the Record and Mail could be viewed as an act of charity.
I can see that the Record, in concert with all the red-tops in Britain, has lost its way - and there is no apparent turning back.
So, and I know this is going to upset the journalists who work there (plus others who don't), there is no genuine point to the Record.
I have no especial brief for Trinity Mirror - as I must have made clear endless numbers of times on this blog - but its willingness to continue publishing the Record and Mail could be viewed as an act of charity.
1. the guardian's circulation is 263,000, nearly 50,000 less than the daily record despite a larger target market in the whole of the uk2. what a cunt
― joe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
3. he wears stupid waistcoats
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
4. Glass houses, stones, etc.
― stet, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I think allot of industries have to adapt or die these days - ie. the music industry. I think there is still a desire for local news but not necessarily in print
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
So apparently we missed this last week? Good luck building a sustainable business model there guyz.
― Matt DC, Monday, 20 June 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
what are they supposed to do?
― blueski, Monday, 20 June 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
they've been "digital first" since 2006 or something, so i'm not really sure what they're announcing now. i think it's just the CEO trying to make it look like he's got a strategy other than merely managing decline. although - and i've bored on about this before, sorry - the guardian would be financially very healthy if they hadn't made their stupid private equity deal.
the print edition will include less 'news' and more analysis.
lol everyone says this when they realise things are going to shit because they've sacked all the reporters, cf the independent's viewspaper. comment is cheap, but facts are hard to come by.
elsewhere, they announced that their recruitment advertising had fallen by £41m, but they are giving job ads away for free at the moment. i guess if you're the sharpest business brain you're not likely to be attracted to a hippy outfit like the graun.
― joe, Monday, 20 June 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
so was the times paywall the total fucking disaster everyone predicted? haven't heard much gloating so i presume it wasn't that bad
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i want the times paywall to succeed, less because i care about the times and more because i want cory doctorow to be wrong about everything
― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone planning to see the NYT documentary? I feel I couldn't care less about it.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen it; it's not bad but it's really insular. You'd think the Times was pretty much the only paper in the world facing these things.
― stet, Monday, 20 June 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
London Times? From what I can tell it's neither abject disaster nor roaring success, but they won't break their subscription figures down (79,000, but no-one knows how many are discounted, special offers etc) so no-one can really tell how much money is coming in (like it's def not enough to turn a profit, but it could be anywhere between beggaringly little or a promising amount).
Here's the story, most things I saw were similarly hesitant.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 20 June 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Well done, the Evening Standard:
http://i.imgur.com/t5YEq.png
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a really fucking weird interview with Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz in today's Sunday Times Magazine. All about his "lifetime in public life" and the day the family feared could be his last: turns out it was 9/11. Really makes them both out to be creepy and out-of-touch.
Then in the review section of the paper Andrew Sullivan absolutely destroys him in an article entitled "Dastardly Dick, America's Worst Vice President".
It's almost like someone at News International is annoyed Cheney's book went to the competition.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 4 September 2011 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god I saw an article about that parachutist, but the paper here just showed a photo and the article which I thought was awful enough - to have video AND COMMENTS!? Thats just horrible.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2011 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
(lol "the paper here" makes it sound like the entirety of Australia has a single newspaper. Um, I sppose if you count Murdoch press as a single cthulubeast it isnt too far from true, mind you)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2011 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a thread for the prolonged death of the cheese farmer?
http://i.imgur.com/0186q.png
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
I can't work out what's worse, the fact that he was paid to write that shit or that he was prepared to put his name to someone else writing that shit.
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
Grab a slice and cook it in some leftover bacon juices. That kicks Krispy Kreme's a*** any day.
That kicks Krispy Kreme's a*** any day.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 07:27 (twelve years ago) link
god he's a cunt
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
A brilliant new-look Mirror website was launched early this morning ... and then, as is traditional in digital publishing, promptly crashed.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
This is going well:
http://i.imgur.com/qds7K.png
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 February 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
first response hall of fame
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 February 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link