Johnston Press plc is the second largest publisher of local newspapers in the UK with about 80 titles. Unsurprisingly, it has not been doing well over the last few years. In mid 2007 its share price started to collapse from around £4 and has recently been around 25p (giving it a market cap of around [...]
There is a lengthy article in The Atlantic about the possible demise of the New York Times. The basic storyline is familiar, although the detail may not be: there has been a massive shift in advertising away from print media and TV and onto the web.
I admit that it takes a story like this [...]
I am finding it hard to know what to make of youtube. Leave aside for the moment the squabbles about copyright and just consider videos which have been made from scratch for youtube. There is a considerable variety. Here is an example of vlogging from an Australian student of Vietnamese extraction, Nathalie Tran, who vlogs [...]
