Dominic Young
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This is a version of an article originally published in the Axate blog in February 2019 The parlous state of journalism is mentioned frequently alongside such dark and contemporary issues as “fake news,” the increasing prevalence of nationalism and extremism, and electoral strangeness such as Brexit and Donald Trump. Enough people appear worried about the…
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According to a recent article, the team at LadBible were wrestling with theproblem of modern publishing — making money. So what did they do? …[We] introduced a first-party data management platform that can monitor who has clicked through on an article, when and from what source. It also stores who they are, and when they return, the…
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Have you heard about the latest exciting European shenanigans? There’s a new Copyright Directive on the way, and boy has it stirred up some passions. There’s an absolutely massive campaign going on to stop it, and air around Brussels is thick with accusations and recriminations. Their arguments are impassioned, although anyone who takes the time…
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Have you heard about the latest exciting European shenanigans? There’s a new Copyright Directive on the way, and boy has it stirred up some passions. There’s an absolutely massive campaign going on to stop it, and air around Brussels is thick with accusations and recriminations. Their arguments are impassioned, although anyone who takes the time…
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“Netflix for News”. That’s a phrase I’ve started hearing in the last month. It refers to an idea about how to save the news industry. I think most people who say it are suggesting a single subscription which users would pay, but which would give them access a wide range of news sites — a kind of…
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“Netflix for News”. That’s a phrase I’ve started hearing in the last month. It refers to an idea about how to save the news industry. I think most people who say it are suggesting a single subscription which users would pay, but which would give them access a wide range of news sites – a…
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As some people will notice, my flurries of activity on this blog and elsewhere are somewhat random. I am deeply passionate about the issues around copyright, because they impinge so heavily on so many other things – economic, cultural, political, personal. One of the reasons I have written about it is to try to explain…
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Ah hello hello hello. Long time no, um, blog. I’ve been busy going back to first principles and working out how we can adapt to a world in which the failure of copyright seems to be collapsing the media ever more quickly. I’m still obsessive about copyright, of course, but I have begun to wonder…
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Tim Berners Lee issued an epistle recently, a call to action to save the web from some dangers which concern him. One of them “misinformation” (or “fake news” as it rather more commonly and hysterically known). It’s a problem, he says. Everyone says it, and they’re right. Tim doesn’t identify the solution but he does…
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Were newspapers wrong to go digital? asks Roy Greenslade, reporting on some very interesting research from the USA. He points out that many, if not most, newspapers could be more profitable if they closed their websites and just focused on print instead. I don’t think the mistake was going digital, unless any newspaper had obsolescence…
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