Comments on: Technology is huge. Why only one page a week?

By: Fraser

Fraser — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:30:34 +0000

There is no shortage of technology news in NZ. So many blogs, and written by people who are in the industry and know what they are talking about. Why would I even bother with a newspaper?

Newspapers need specialist reporters if they are going to survive.

By: Julie Starr

Julie Starr — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:33:07 +0000

Thanks Bill. Wow, 20 pages, them were the days! I know there are specialist mags and trade mags that have taken over these areas – at least the computers/gadgets side of Technology. But I’d still like to see more science and technology (not just computer) coverage in daily news and if necessary a bit less crime and tragedy and ‘he said she said’ politics to make room for it. That’s not a matter of finding advertisers, although I think there aresome new advertisers out there, but more a matter of challenging existing daily news values.

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:00:27 +0000

When I used to run the Computer Pages in The Dominion back in the late 1980s we usually published 16 pages and on at least one occasion had 20. But there was a lot of advertising.

Today the Dominion-Post usually makes two pages on a Monday – but there’s not a huge amount of advertising.

The real action is at Computerworld, which switched from weekly to fortnightly at the start of the year. It’s a 32 page tabloid. Reseller News is the trade title, also fortnightly, with roughly the same number of pages.