Legacy

The battle over payment for news content is ratcheting up. After a decade of delivering online content almost entirely for free, a hardy band of news executives are growing steadily bullish – or reckless, depending on your point of view – as they look to ways of reinvigorating their revenue streams. Take the Times of… Read more »

In England, the defense of one’s reputation can be a costly and protracted pursuit, particularly for those at the sharp end of a lawsuit. London has long been described as the libel capital of the world where wealthy foreign magnates are free to sue without restraint. Woe betide the journalist or blogger who falls foul… Read more »

Every action has a reaction, the Newtonian dictum goes. So it is with news. Journalists create interesting and relevant content in hopes of a ready audience. But everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone, at some point, has to pay. The previous decade witnessed the emergence of an online audience… Read more »

The Associated Press has seen sense, and is advocating the use of "website" rather than "Web site." The AP construction was increasingly an anachronism that failed to recognize how the concept of a website had entered the language as a thing in and of itself. The two-part, half-capitalized spelling appealed more to sticklers than those… Read more »

It’s too easy to predict the slow demise of journalism. We’ve heard the concerns before. The advent of the internet opened the floodgates, diluting editorial standards. The blogosphere ushered in an era where opinion is king and accuracy counts for little. The dwindling of the traditional newsroom leaves politicians from all sides devoid of the… Read more »