Oct
5
A few more links, all of them related to the business of newspapering, which is at least as important as all this fancy new technology we get to harness.
- UK: anti-freesheet group lobbies Prime Minister. A British group, concerned with waste, is trying to stop freesheet distribution.
- AOL ‘set to slash UK editorial jobs’. It’s not just legacy media that’s using the axe. Some jobs, apparently, will be outsourced to India.
- Big media accelerate big mergers, especially online. I thought I’d noticed an awful lot more news on buyouts, buy-ups and mergers.
- News, Sports, Business, Tech Sites Win High Marks For Service, But Fail To Draw More Ads: Report. A look at leading web sites. The headline pretty much says it all.
- Study: Newspapers may lose more global ad share in next two years. Another study with some less-than-cheerful projections for the newspaper folk.
