Article makes it sound as if The Observer is in a unique position. It isn’t.
Examples of charging for online news,
Shifting Securities project data now available
Data from my colleague Ben O’Loughlin and colleagues’ ESRC-funded project, Shifting Securities: News Cultures Before and Beyond the 2003 Iraq War are now publicly available. This qualitative study includes approximately 145 interviews, focus groups and ethnographic reports with news publics in different UK cities, and 30 interviews and focus groups with military and government policymakers, BBC and Channel 4 newsmakers, and various security “elites”, from 2004-2007. To request access to the data, click here for the project page at the UK Data Archive (note: you need an account). This is rich data from an important period for security, legitimacy and multiculturalism in the UK.
Ben and Marie Gillespie welcome researchers making use of it. They also invite opportunities for comparative research (contact M.Gillespie@open.ac.uk or Ben.OLoughlin@rhul.ac.uk).
[via the New Political Communication Unit blog.]
"You won’t be seeing any of them going near it again, said a Labour figure."
— From Jim Pickard, FT Political Correspondent, on the Labour leadership’s likely approach to LabourList from now on. If true, it’s a pity. Parties need to use the web to connect the grassroots to the leadership.
"What we’re trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn’t just expensive and inefficient; it’s laughably so."
— Nicholas Carson discussing the failing economics underlying the New York Times.
