Dominic Young

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I’ve been around the news media and the internet since the beginning. I am interested in copyright as the basis for a thriving and balanced creative sector and society. Also interested in how the failure of copyright and other laws has led to terrible outcomes for the internet and everyone who uses it. I’ve done a lot of things around these issues.

Category: Journalism

  • Blocking the blockers is a waste of a good crisis

    Back when my day job involved worrying about such things, I didn’t much like the online advertising market. As a publisher, it’s quite hard to love. Advertising works for publishers when they can charge a premium price for their ads, establish and defend a meaningful market share, turn a larger audience into higher yields and…

  • Tis but a flesh wound

    Much has been written in the last week or two about the death of newspapers. The announcement that the Independent will cease its print edition has prompted this hand-wringing and outpouring. The Independent’s hobbyist owner, Evgeny Lebedev, has offered up his own wisdom about the situation. In an interview with the Guardian he claims his…

  • Content farms: slave labour or green shoots of hope?

    Several people have drawn my attention to this article on GigaOm talking about content farms as a democratising force for journalism. Content farms have been criticised for turning content into a commodity, where quantity and optimisation matter more than quality. I think this is, to quite a large extent, right. Anyone can churn out articles…