Tech giants need to pay for news they use
By Tom Felle This article first appeared in the Sunday Independent The sustainability of Irish media is at a tipping point, and radical action is needed by the new Government […]
Category Archives: News and newspapers
Facebook cuts back on news to give you more time with advertisers
Tom Felle, City, University of London Dear friends, it’s not us, it’s you. You are the problem. You’ve stopped sharing every intimate detail of your lives and we can’t monetise […]
Can paywalls save journalism?
The following is an article I wrote for The Conversation about newsonomics and the future of payment models for digital news. See the original article here Journalism is in an […]
City journalism academics make submission to Independent commission on FOI
My colleagues at City University Professor Heather Brooke, Jonathan Hewett and I made a submission to the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information, the Whitehall body currently reviewing the FoI […]
Dull content, but the release of Prince Charles ‘Black Spider’ memos is a landmark moment
After a decade of legal battles, the content of the infamous ‘Black Spider Memos’ – letters sent by Prince Charles to former government ministers – turned out to be a damp squib rather than the smoking gun we had hoped for.
But even if Charles seems preoccupied with fish, badgers and herbal remedies in his missives, the fact that these letters have been made public is extremely significant. The release of the 27 documents by the UK government – 14 letters from the Prince of Wales written in 2004 and 2005, ten replies, and three exchanges of correspondence between private secretaries – shows just how powerful the Freedom of Information Act has become.
Has the UK press lost its political punch?
On the eve of the UK’s 2015 general election, I spoke with Reuters about the highly partisan and bizarre media coverage of Britain’s 2015 Westminster campaign. you can watch it […]
Did newspapers ever really influence elections?
There was a time when the first reviews of a play in a newspaper made or broke a touring company; when the exclusive first pictures were only available to newspapers and magazines; and when political coverage by the news media shaped public opinion. Or at least, we think it did. But did newspapers ever really influence elections?
JP looks set to exit Irish market
IN THE mid-2000s, the brash and bullish Johnston Press thought buying into Irish regional newspaper market was a licence to print money. It spent more than €200m building up its […]
Why the Internet won’t save Ireland’s Provincial Newspapers (but going non-profit just might)
I’ve just completed a chapter for the second edition of an important book on local journalism in the UK and Ireland, entitled What Do We Mean By Local? Grass-Roots Journalism […]
Former Times editor Brady calls for Google to fund newspapers
IT SEEMS it is not only the current crop of newspaper editors that are worried about their papers. Two former The Irish Times editors have now also taken a stand […]
