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Johnston Press And Observer Prolong Respective Death Rattles

Johnston Press And Observer Prolong Respective Death Rattles

Two stories to faintly warm the cockles of the old-school print journalist today – firstly the Observer isn’t getting canned as previously mooted,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 11, 2009 12:24PM | 1 Comment »


Rupert Murdoch Blocks Google, Stalls Paywalls, Dodges Hacking Charges, Beefs Rudd

Rupert Murdoch Blocks Google, Stalls Paywalls, Dodges Hacking Charges, Beefs Rudd

There’s been a flurry of activity across the Rupert Murdoch media empire recently as the Digger hatches his plans to get people to pay for…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 9, 2009 12:23PM | 3 Comments »


Armistice Day Of The Freesheet War: London Lite Folds

Armistice Day Of The Freesheet War: London Lite Folds

It’s the least surprising media news this month, but the London Lite, the freesheet that has clogged many a tube aisle over the last few…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 28, 2009 11:58AM | No Comments »


Changes at BAD IDEA: Creative Economy

Changes at BAD IDEA: Creative Economy

While we continue to hone our new website, here’s the third of the subject areas that we’re going to be covering, following Hot Money and…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Creative Economy | October 12, 2009 2:32PM | No Comments »


Amazon Kindle's Shaky UK Launch Proof Of Their Apple Tablet Fears

Amazon Kindle’s Shaky UK Launch Proof Of Their Apple Tablet Fears

What with Christmas books like “Here’s My Annual Cash Cow” by Peter Kay and “Socialnomics: You’ll Buy This Because It Has ‘nomics’ In The Title”…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 8, 2009 12:37PM | 4 Comments »


The Sun Drops Support For Labour, Now Only Believes In The Individual

The Sun Drops Support For Labour, Now Only Believes In The Individual

The Sun’s late show of support for Tony Blair six weeks before the 1997 general election sealed, maybe even swelled Labour’s landslide victory,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | September 30, 2009 11:45AM | No Comments »


How Will Media Change With The London Paper Gone?

How Will Media Change With The London Paper Gone?

It only seems like yesterday that News International was crowing over the sale of the Evening Standard to Alexander Lebedev for a pound, with

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 24, 2009 12:14PM | 2 Comments »


CBS Video Advertising Experiment Decidedly Unfuturistic

American TV network CBS has teamed up with Pepsi to bring video advertising into print, with an upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly featuring

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 20, 2009 2:09PM | 7 Comments »


Don Imus To Add Extra Echo To Fox's Chamber

Don Imus To Add Extra Echo To Fox’s Chamber

Newsnight’s all well and good with its even-handed approach, but sometimes you want something different from your news analysis show, like incendiary personal opinions backed…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 17, 2009 1:52PM | 5 Comments »


RIAA Continues Crushing The Little Guys, But Music Industry Needs To Be Winning Them Back

RIAA Continues Crushing The Little Guys, But Music Industry Needs To Be Winning Them Back

The Recording Industry Association of America has continued its random financial assassination of hapless American file-sharers in their campaign to “protect intellectual property

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Posted by Chris Baraniuk in Creative Economy | August 4, 2009 11:24AM | 5 Comments »


Is The Observer Getting Canned?

Is The Observer Getting Canned?

The Observer, the Sunday broadsheet bought by the Guardian back in 1993, could get sent to the big liberal breakfast table in the sky in…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 3, 2009 11:19AM | No Comments »


Independent Still Can't Pay Its Debts, Gets Eyed Up By Lebedev

Independent Still Can’t Pay Its Debts, Gets Eyed Up By Lebedev

Like some panicked shop owner pleading with a mafia head, the Independent has been getting out of paying the interest on one of its loans…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 28, 2009 1:45PM | 1 Comment »