Comments on: Journalists’ micropubs vs. big publishing http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/ Signposts to journalism's future from Press Gazette Wed, 16 May 2012 23:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Press Gazette Blogs - Fleet Street 2.0 » Norwich journalist relaunches self-published football site http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-59350 Press Gazette Blogs - Fleet Street 2.0 » Norwich journalist relaunches self-published football site Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:09:00 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blog/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-59350 [...] year, Waghorn used a redundancy payout to set up a web site to cover Norwich City FC, the same patch he had covered for the Evening [...] [...] year, Waghorn used a redundancy payout to set up a web site to cover Norwich City FC, the same patch he had covered for the Evening [...]

]]> By: Martin Stabe » One site, two issues in online journalism http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-28489 Martin Stabe » One site, two issues in online journalism Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:02:41 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blog/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-28489 [...] This nicely sums up both the posts I wrote yesterday. Online journalism is being shaped by entrepreneurial journalists like Rick, who have recognised that their fate is no longer inextricably tied up with the fate of big print publishing companies. The Internet is disrupting publishing, not journalism. Journalism students should be paying close attention to journalists like Rick Waghorn But the flip side is that the economics don’t quite add up yet. Rick Waghorn’s site may be excellent editorially, but the commercial side is difficult. He may eventually get it to work as a sustainable micro-publication — as several bloggers have already demonstrated that it can be done. [...] [...] This nicely sums up both the posts I wrote yesterday. Online journalism is being shaped by entrepreneurial journalists like Rick, who have recognised that their fate is no longer inextricably tied up with the fate of big print publishing companies. The Internet is disrupting publishing, not journalism. Journalism students should be paying close attention to journalists like Rick Waghorn But the flip side is that the economics don’t quite add up yet. Rick Waghorn’s site may be excellent editorially, but the commercial side is difficult. He may eventually get it to work as a sustainable micro-publication — as several bloggers have already demonstrated that it can be done. [...]

]]> By: Martin Stabe » Note to journalism schools: give us new heroes http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-28291 Martin Stabe » Note to journalism schools: give us new heroes Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:51:47 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blog/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-28291 [...] Teach some new heroes: You know, the people out there doing impressive stuff with new technologies right now. The war reporters traveling the world doing solo multimedia reporting; the investigative reporters using sophisticated software to take on the CIA, the laid-off print hacks going it alone to build successful online publications, the people bringing software development skills into journalism. [...] [...] Teach some new heroes: You know, the people out there doing impressive stuff with new technologies right now. The war reporters traveling the world doing solo multimedia reporting; the investigative reporters using sophisticated software to take on the CIA, the laid-off print hacks going it alone to build successful online publications, the people bringing software development skills into journalism. [...]

]]> By: Paul Sutherland http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-22788 Paul Sutherland Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:35:17 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blog/2006/10/12/journalists-micropubs-vs-big-publishing/#comment-22788 I was interested to read this as I am a traditional journalist who has chosen to go down the blogging road. After many years as a Fleet Street sub, I gave it all up last year to become a freelance writer about space news for the popular market. A vital part of the new life has been the blog, http://skymania.blogspot.com which ensures stories get published even when they don't appear in print. Ironically, I see my posts appearing on the website of the Houston Chronicle, the local for Nasa mission control, but I'm still working on making any real money from the blog side of things. The Houston deal is part of an experiment with BlogBurst, a US operation that seeks to get noteworthy blogs wider coverage. They even highlight my work on their own blog: http://www.burstblog.com/2006/10/13/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-british-blogosphere/ Unfortunately the BlogBurst operation is still "in Beta" and no money yet reaches the blogger! Paul I was interested to read this as I am a traditional journalist who has chosen to go down the blogging road. After many years as a Fleet Street sub, I gave it all up last year to become a freelance writer about space news for the popular market. A vital part of the new life has been the blog, http://skymania.blogspot.com which ensures stories get published even when they don’t appear in print.
Ironically, I see my posts appearing on the website of the Houston Chronicle, the local for Nasa mission control, but I’m still working on making any real money from the blog side of things. The Houston deal is part of an experiment with BlogBurst, a US operation that seeks to get noteworthy blogs wider coverage. They even highlight my work on their own blog: http://www.burstblog.com/2006/10/13/the-sun-never-sets-on-the-british-blogosphere/
Unfortunately the BlogBurst operation is still “in Beta” and no money yet reaches the blogger!

Paul

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