When do you stp the presses?

"Killing print requires acknowledging not just that the old mode is dead but also that the future means less revenue and shrunken staffs."

Thanks to Simon Waldman for the link.

Fade to pay

First time I've seen this as a way of teasing you over the subscription wall. Not unsusceptible to a quick screengrab, though...

Typecast

Associated goes with Atex using InDesign, InCopy ... and, "initially", Notes.
(From Editor & Publisher)

NYT pay wall: a good $10m or short-termism?

Why read other newspapers? For me, it's comment and analysis firstly (and a long way ahead), then perhaps the odd interview, feature, and review. I'll only look for news on another newspaper if it deals with a part of the world not really covered by my principal news sources. So what would get me, or presumably many others, to read the New York Times regularly? Not the news: the comment.

TimesSelect now has 609,000 subscribers. On face value that's pretty impressive. Actually two-thirds of these are free logins for print subscribers. But TimesSelect is still raking in nearly $10m. This article weighs up the balance between 200,00 paying customers and a potentially much larger international audience overall.
(From Follow the Media)

Integrated Newsrooms part 1: The new Telegraph model - Editors Weblog- Analysis

(From Editors Weblog)

Jeff Jarvis's 'big Davos conclusion'

NYT online revenue up 39.2% last year

... accounting for 8.3% of total revenues in 2006, up from 6% in 2005.
(From MediaPost_

NAA marketing convention notices local search

(From SearchEngineWatch)

Google News UK rankings for January 2007

rank	source	score		average score	total stories
1	Guardian Unlimited	533.95		3.46	154
2	BBC News	314.21		2.66	118
3	Times Online	312.15		4.00	78
4	Reuters.uk	301.02		2.81	107
5	Telegraph.co.uk	284.44		3.23	88
6	Independent	236.84		4.38	54
7	Monsters & Critics	167.68		2.62	64
8	Scotsman	164.02		2.78	59
9	ITV.com	135.20		3.38	40
10	Reuters AlertNet	112.57		3.21	35
11	Bloomberg	109.06		1.91	57
12	New York Times	103.25		2.10	49
13	IHT	94.48		1.81	52
14	Los Angeles Times	93.76		2.84	33
15	Playfuls.com	87.36		1.89	46
16	Washington Post	83.62		2.03	41
17	Daily Mail	82.90		10.36	8
18	This is London	75.82		3.29	23
19	Financial Times	68.80		2.64	26
20	Reuters	63.20		1.23	51

'We think of the internet as if it were some kind of journalistic orphan'

In the space of a couple of hours I read this open letter from the editor of the LA Times about these crazy times for the newspaper industry, and came across a letter I wrote in 1999 to Alan in response to the Guardian advertising the post of "internet editor" (a post I thought should not exist). Every issue confronted in the contemporary letter was already very much to the fore over 7 years ago; every positive step cited this month was as obvious back then.

Alan's climate change metaphor holds: the number of deniers is falling. But we're still doing more fretting than acting.

Nice summary of the LA Times piece (which is terribly long) from Jemima Kiss here.

Ahem. Sorry

This has been offline for six months, and the old comments and linked files have gone.

Apols.

I'm going to be putting up some link-only entries here for a bit. I know, it's a sin - but it's mainly for my own use. I never really got into del.icio.us.

Contacting me...

My Guardian email address has been deleted before I had a chance to advise of my new primary contact address. If you need to contact me please email my firstname dot surname at gmail dot com

'Online journalism must change. Otherwise shovelware will bury it'

"Neilsen/Netratings and Comscore Media Metrix agree that the average visitor to an American daily newspaper website visits only three time per month and read less than 20 pages and spends less than 30 minutes there during that month. According to the Readership Institute at Northwestern University, the average reader of a printed newspaper reads it three times per week, and read more than 20 pages and spends nearly 30 minutes each time."
(From Digital Deliverance LLC)

Latest E Ink press releases

10-inch flexible display delivering 600x800 pixels at 100 pixels per inch. "As thin and flexible as construction paper".
12-bit colour flexible display suitable for mass production. 400x300 pixels at 83 pixels per inch.
(From E Ink)

Digital edition update: Times and NewspaperDirect

Demo here. I still find the SmartEdition user interface irritating and unpredictable.
(From Yahoo! Financial News)