Tag Archives: content
A tidy $315m for Huffington Post in AOL deal – reactions
The big news of the week has been the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL for US$315 million. That’s a nice sum of money for Arianna Huffington et al and must be giving hope to a few other media entrepreneurs out there. The deal, according to the press release, will see the creation of [...]
How to make money from content: ‘You can’t.’
Paul Bradshaw does a very nice job here making a couple of simple points, simply. Making Money from content online View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw.
Journalists should ‘think more about context than content’
Thought for the day (from Amy Gahran on MediaShift IdeaLab: Today's journalists can -- and probably should -- consciously shift away from jobs that revolve around content creation (producing packaged "stories") and toward providing layers of journalistic insight and context on top of content created by others (including public information). Finding ways to help people sort through info overload is far more valuable than providing more information.
Should online news be free? Yes, but the debate grinds on
The 'Are newspapers cutting their own throats by not charging for their product online?' debate grinds on. Inside most media companies the battle lines are drawn: on one side are those in favour of charging for premium services - 'we're mad to give away this great content we've made' - and on the other are those against - 'if we charge, our audience will go somewhere else'.
#One liners – the heroically uninformed, comic strips & NZ’s broadband problem