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Tag Archives: Media economics
Sep 25 2013
What Comes Next For The Media Business Model When We Are All Digital First?
Leave a commentJust about everyone I talk to in the business is at the point where they ‘get it’. They know that digital technologies are changing their production methods and the way their material is consumed and paid for. They don’t want … Continue reading
Posted by: September 25, 2013
Tagged with: Business Model, future of news, Media economics, newspapers
Aug 22 2013
From fee to mutual? What kind of BBC do you want to emerge from Charter Renewal?
1 CommentIf the BBC is such great value then why do we have to take 180,000 people to court every year to make them pay for it? In answering that question we soon get into a discussion about how public service … Continue reading
Posted by: August 22, 2013
Tagged with: BBC, BBC Charter, commercial, competition, creative industries, governance, innovation, Media economics, Media Policy, media politics, plurality, public service, Public Service Broadcasting, Public Service Media, Regulation
Jul 3 2013
Life’s A Media Riot (Speech to Almedalen in Sweden)
Leave a commentThis is the text of a speech I gave at the extraordinary annual Swedish political festival called ‘Almedalen’, when the whole political class of the country moves to a Baltic island for a week of debate open to the public. … Continue reading
Posted by: July 3, 2013
Tagged with: almedalen, business models, complexity, digital, Future, future of news, Journalism, Media economics, Networked journalism, reuters institute for the study of journalism, RISJ, SuperMedia, Sweden, uncertainty
Feb 13 2013
A strategic approach to the new threats and opportunities for Public Service Media
Leave a commentPublic Service Media like the rest of the industry is facing a tough time across Europe. In the Netherlands the government has ordered a wholesale restructuring as well as deep budget reductions. It’s a moment for the NPO to think … Continue reading
Posted by: February 13, 2013
Tagged with: AUdience, BSkyB, Business Model, Citizen, Hilversum, Journalism, Lectures, Media economics, Mumsnet, Netherlands, OPen Journalism, propublica, Public, public service, Public Service Broadcasting, Public Service Media, Sky News, speech, Strategy, talks
Dec 3 2012
The Business of Bling: How Hip Hop Makes American Music History (guest blog)
Leave a commentFrom the ‘ethnic minstrelsy’ of Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th century, to the bling culture of Hip Hop – American popular music has been both big business and a vital ingredient in the US cultural melting pot. Polis … Continue reading
Posted by: December 3, 2012
Tagged with: business, COlumbia University, Culture, David Hajdu, events, guest blog, Hip Hop, Media economics, tin pan alley
May 27 2011
Facebook: why shouldn’t you trust them?
Leave a commentIf Facebook was a country – so the false analogy goes – it would be the world’s third largest with 500+ million ‘inhabitants’. But what’s it like to live there? I know that Facebook isn’t a country, but I wonder … Continue reading
Posted by: May 27, 2011
Tagged with: Facebook, Globalisation, Media economics, media literacy, Polis Events, Privacy, Regulation, social media
May 22 2011
Profiting From The Web: The Ethics Of The New Media Environment
Leave a commentThese are my notes from a talk given to the Web Science Conference, ‘Profiting From the New Web’ on Monday May 23rd, 2011 at the Royal Society. You can see the slides here. I want to start by saying that … Continue reading
Posted by: May 22, 2011
Tagged with: business, Journalist ethics, Media economics, new media, organisations, web science
May 3 2011
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer at POLIS/LSE on May 25th
1 CommentI was delighted to chair a lecture by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebooks’ Chief Operating Officer. The title is ’It’s all about people’ The audio podcast is available here. You can read an excellent live blog report by @joannejacobs here. Another interesting … Continue reading
Posted by: May 3, 2011
Tagged with: Facebook, Media economics, Sheryl Sandberg, social media
Mar 25 2011
Why Is HuffPo Coming Here?
2 CommentsIs the launch of a UK Huffington Post a serious venture, or is this just a half-hearted attempt to turn AOL’s latest acquisition into a global franchise? On the face of it there isn’t much going for the idea. The … Continue reading
Posted by: March 25, 2011
Tagged with: Blogging, Globalisation, Media economics, Networked journalism, Reporting politics
Mar 3 2011
Sky News Saved: But What About The Bigger Picture?
Leave a commentThe Sky News deal is elegant in its ingenuity, but I doubt it will do enough to satisfy the critics of the full merger between Newscorp and BSkyB. Their fears were always about what Murdoch would go on to do … Continue reading
Posted by: March 3, 2011
Tagged with: broadcasting, governance and journalism, Media economics, News International, Regulation, Sky News
