The Future of Journalism: a joint Media Alliance & Walkley Foundation initiative

1. Time to take your tablets
(Blog/Opinion)

... and attractive products that might provide them with a business model. And yes, that includes news content. Those people in the industry obsessing about whether you can or can’t charge for news are ...

2. Links for 17.11.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... first social media editor – is this a far-sighted move or a way of controlling its staff’s social media activities? Click here for the full story: New York Times: About half of people in the US would ...

3. What's old is new
(Blog/Opinion)

... of a curiosity – put up on the stage for the amusement and at times ridicule of the people in the auditorium. And from the reactions many of the people on the stage, about 50 per cent of them journalists, ...

4. Links for 04.11.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... than women: Click here for the full story: Paid Content: Time Inc to lay off between 500 and 600 people – cuts to start tomorrow: Click here for the full story: Guardian: Research from Paid Content ...

5. Let's get engaged (it's a love thing)
(Blog/Opinion)

... of the first things Chris Warren told me when I started working at the Alliance was that people love you more when they are doing something for you than when you are doing something for them. It’s all ...

6. Links for 30.10.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... expert bloggers who bring an audience with them. Click here for the full story: Matt Skinner: On the blogs crowdources answers to what puts people off people on Twitter: Click here for the full ...

7. On the road again
(Blog/Opinion)

... of which can be found here and here. Part of getting ready for an events such as these is briefing the various speakers we have lined up, particularly those people who have the happy task of moderating ...

8. Links for 13.10.09
(Articles/Reading List)

... Simons: Content Makers links to a new poll on where people get their foreign news: Click here for the full story:    ...

9. Links for 07.10.09
(Articles/Reading List)

Newsosaur: What content will people pay for? Alan Mutter says this will come as bad news to publishers planning to peddle the content they are already producing: Click here for the full story: Slate: ...

10. Sub text denies free speech
(Blog/Opinion)

... media. When Campbell Reid spoke out about Twitter in a recent interview, he was voicing what a lot of people in his pay grade must think: “We’re very uncomfortable with staff tweeting in a professional ...