Romenesko didn't do anything wrong

Twelve years ago, the Poynter Institute hired Jim Romenesko to aggregate interesting and important stories about the world of journalism. Yesterday, he was pressured into premature retirement for leaving out a few quotation marks while doing it.What the hell was Poynter thinking? The priggish and self-righteous individuals who hustled Romenesko out the door for this flimsy technical infraction

Publishers need to focus on Facebook

Facebook is perhaps the most disruptive of the many powerful forces to rock the traditional media since the Internet burst into the common consciousness in the mid-1990s.So, stop thinking about Facebook as one of the many projects on your endlessly expanding digital to-do list and start focusing single-mindedly on ways you can turn this captivating new medium to your advantage. The addictive

A Baby Boy!

I have let people know on Facebook and Twitter about the safe arrival of our latest addition - but until now have not found the time to provide a proper blog update - and after a prod in the week - here it is.

My third son made his appearance at 9.09am on Friday 7th October weighing a kilo less than both his brothers at 3520 grams but making up for it in his length of 52cm.

The weeks since have been quite 'pittig' (as the Dutch say) with a re-admittance to hospital for me (nothing like being taken away in an ambulance to get the street's attention and freak your children out) and reflux diagnosed for the little one. Sleepless nights are certainly no stranger to me and his dad.....and I can honestly say I have gained a good understanding of the ins and outs of the Dutch medical system for later blog posts.......

However, things are getting back on track for us all.

Thanks for all the congratulations and well wishes over the last few weeks.

Paid news potential limited on tablets: study

The potential for selling news through applications on iPads and other tablets appears to be “limited,” according to a study released today.Although consuming news on a tablet is one of the most popular activities discovered in a survey of 1,200 tablet users, only 14% of them had subscribed to a paid news app, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism

Can investors get News Corp. under control?

At long last, some of the public shareholders of News Corp. this week will try to put some discipline into the management of the scandal-ridden company that Rupert Murdoch built. Regardless of what the investors achieve – if they get anywhere at all – a lot of damage already has been done by the slipshod way Murdoch runs his sprawling media empire. The California Public Employees Retirement

Engagement: The new digital metric

Everyone knows you have to measure things correctly to manage a business well. But the converse of this axiom is that you can get into a lot of trouble if you measure the wrong things. Unfortunately, this has happened in the newspaper industry with respect to the digital media. Now, it has got to stop. In a misguided effort to apply the historically successful print business model to the

How newspapers are losing next-gen readers

A new study shows the dramatic degree to which consumers under the age of 40 have repudiated newspapers.The must-read report, which was released Monday by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, found an alarming disconnect between younger and older consumers in the value they put on newspapers as sources of information about their communities. Pew split the 2,251