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I’ve been pondering how news find us anno 2014 for a while and will blog more in-depth about this later, but I just had a very interesting experience which illustrates how things are changing: So, I catch up on the news stream from my friends on Facebook early in
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Food for thought from high profile Norwegian news presenter Odd Reider Solem (from interview with regional BT via Thor Bjarne Bore, in my hasty translation): - You were one of the first journalists to graduate from DH Volda in 1973. What is the difference between being a journalist then and
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Schibsted-owned Aftenposten raises the paywall. From 12pm today (about now) non-subscribers can only read eight online articles a week before they have to pay for online access. Digital subscribers have to pay about £20 per month (with today's exchange rate). Most comments I've seen on the
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Hyperlocal news stories, such as "New shelf at Tesco's", shared 50,000 times on Facebook in ten days - despite the news site producing them serving a muncipality of only 2000 and recording an average of 8000 daily unique users. This story on local news site
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Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the twin terror attack that killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utöya in 2011. The terror of that day still feels unfathomable, surreal. To some extent, more so now than when the terrible events of the day way were unfolding. In the earlyish
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"You can’t bring about innovation with disruption," a friend of mine likes to say. Luckily, I’ve also gleamed some valuable insights on exactly how to go about changing what I myself like to call dysfunctional organisations from her, or how to disrupt them enough to bring
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After introducing a "hard" paywall in November 2011, tiny local newspaper Hallingdölen in Ål, Norway, boasts of its best financial year ever in 2012. The name of its businessmodel? "Ål inclusive" (the term refers to how only paying subscribers can access the paper on all platforms)
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A post about the recent bankruptcies of high street chains HMV, Blockbuster and Jessops - brands which holds a lot of memories with me - made me think back to a a favourite video which bears revisiting. "Where-ever there is mediation there will be disruption. This is not just
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"You don't often hear the chairman of a new British newspaper publisher begin his launch press conference by saying how inspirational things are in Norway," Peter Preston writes in today's Observer. He's writing about former Mecom-boss David Montgomery's newest media
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Given all the different European press codes and national challenges, what should a European website for recording media transgressions focus on to be most useful? That was the question at a media bloggers’ seminar in Bristol, organised by the EU-funded Media Act project, I was privileged to attend some weeks
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Modern newsagents are diversifying as quickly as they can it seems. I just came across this fascinating photo I snapped last year because I was stunned by how many different services and goods this London newsagent sold. Is there a parallel here to the media industry? Should there be more
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Last year Norway experienced the worst peacetime massacre in modern Norwegian history, these are some of the frontpages the country woke up to today - one year later to the day. I kind of think the more minimalistic ones are the strongest ones, I especially like Aftenposten and VG'