This is just so sad, sad as in pathetic if you were in doubt about in which way (via Paul Bradshaw on Twitter). It's "just the latest in a series of games played by people who see you and me as numbers, notches in the social media
Acquisitions
No Polish partnership between Mecom and Axel Springer. After months of speculations the German newspaper giant was vying for both Rzeczpospolita and Mecom Poland, it emerged yesterday that Axel Springer had not submitted a bid for the Polish state's 49 pc stake in Rzeczpospolita - where Mecom is
Journalism
I was intrigued to see some of my tidbits from my reporting trip to Iceland dance into the latter part of this story in The Independent last month. Now, I'm fully aware what a confounding place the internet can be, indeed the world is full of people who
Journalism
I was astonished to read Newspapers: don't link to us yesterday, I really thought newspapers, several of those mentioned keen to come across as web-savy, had moved on from such selfdestructive policies. It's a reminder that we still need the excellent Link Manifesto penned by The
Journalism
Amid the current deluge of news about media layoffs I was deligheted to find Steve Smith back blogging, and that with some good advice to journalists and editors recently made redundant. Now, Steve - the former editor of Spokesman Review who resigned in protest against a new round of job
BusinessModel
Here's a Twanalysis that was bound to appear sooner or later, but one that I nonethesame found both timely and amusing: "What does it mean when hundreds of third party services (with questionable, if any, business models) are dependent upon a single service which itself has no
Journalism
Bente Kalsnes has an interesting post on the problems with "free" public data in Norway, which is often very far from free. She describes an environmental web project she was involved with for local newspaper group Edda Media: it stranded on a combination of lack of a coherent
Finance
I have a feeling Mecom-boss David Montgomery will have a very interesting visit to Norway next week. After selling off its operations in North-Western Norway, the pan-European newspaper group today announced it had won a further reprieve from its lenders and now has until the end of March to get
Finance
Before the clock strikes midnight, let me take a moment to contemplate how we are now exactly one month into the year of the castrated bull - and how there's rarely been a year more aptly named than this. If you're not following my logic, I&
Free speech
When the headline "High cost of UK libel cases shackling UK newspapers, says study" popped up in my RSS-reader, it gave me an immediate urge to rephrase it: We have ample evidence to conclude that this is not only a problem confined to Albion's green isle,
Acquisitions
"This is yet another sad chapter in Mecom's short and tragic history as a media owner in Norway and other countries," Kjell Johnsen, the former CEO of Mecom's Norwegian division, Edda Media, told Dagens Naeringsliv. Johnsen breaks his silence His comments in the wake
Pictures
Originally uploaded by Kristine_Lowe I have to disappoint you if you thought this post would give any insights into climbing social ladders or getting ahead in life. I'm thinking of the the more trivial, yet important matter, of getting from point A to B these days -