It may be received wisdom that paywalls don’t work, but that seems to me a great reason to challenge that wisdom. Here’s the thing: the media landscape as we know it is now unsustainable. It doesn’t matter if all newspapers stopped publishing online overnight, or blocked Google, or anything else. The problem lies offline: the business model no longer supports
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Listening to news executives talk about micropayments, Kindles, public subsidies, micropayments, collusion, blocking Google and anything else that might save their businesses, it occurs to me that they may have missed some developments in, ah, well, the past ten years. For those and anyone else who is interested, I offer the following primer on how things have changed. Any attempt to
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It’s finally been announced that my project Help Me Investigate is being funded by 4iP and Screen West Midlands. Help Me Investigate (HMI) is a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism. It allows anyone to submit a question they want to investigate – “How much does my hospital make from parking charges?” “What happened to the money that was allocated to my
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