Category: Mainstream Media

  • On the death of a mainstream medium

    It’s an astonishing end to a newspaper that published its first edition in 1843 and grew to become the biggest-circulation English-language weekly newspaper in the world, with a readership averaging close to 7.5 million in 2010. That newspaper is the…

  • On board with The Huffington Post UK

    In a few days time, an event takes place that marks another evolutionary milestone for the mainstream media – the launch of The Huffington Post UK edition on July 6. The Huffington Post is a US news website and content…

  • Taking link licensing to a higher level

    A new development in the ‘pay per click’ links licensing conflict in the UK is about to move things up a level, one designed to raise awareness among members of Parliament and which might influence the future of a system…

  • Everyone is trying to figure out the future of content

    I was looking again at some of the video recordings of last week’s debate at the British Library in London that I went to, organized by B2B SaaS company Meltwater, and which addressed the topic of “The Future of Content.”…

  • An apologetic tweeter

    A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. […] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on…