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David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us, an investigative journalism project based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is innovating a new ‘crowdfunded’ economic…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | December 8, 2009 12:40PM | 2 Comments »
Last week we looked at Andrew Hall, the guy who made Citigroup a lot of money heading up the oil futures trading arm…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 3, 2009 1:31PM | 2 Comments »
When we were at the FIPP magazine conference a fortnight ago, there was the suggestion that publishers would have to get used to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 18, 2009 2:23PM | 1 Comment »
One of the hot topics at the FIPP conference last week was the issue of micropayments – being able to buy journalism iTunes-style in little…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | May 11, 2009 10:43AM | No Comments »
Allen Stanford, orange cricket fan, WAG molester and alleged perpetrator of a massive fraud, spent yesterday having a massive PR binge…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 21, 2009 12:01PM | No Comments »
It looks like the forecasts about advertising revenue that were out recently were chillingly prescient – Sport magazine, the prosaically-titled free weekly, Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 11:15AM | No Comments »
The Guardian, with their newly announced Open Platform, are heading into the 21st century of profitability much faster than the rest of their print-media chums.…
Posted by Mike Smith in Creative Economy | March 11, 2009 10:45AM | No Comments »
Those with a stock portfolio, a mortgage, a six-figure bonus or a job in the car industry are the high-profile victims of the recession thus…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 10, 2009 2:07PM | No Comments »
What with Madoff, B Ramalinga Raju, that Special Ops guy who tried to fake his own death, and now…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 19, 2009 1:45PM | 1 Comment »
Alexander Lebedev, the hippest oligarch in town, is closing in on the Evening Standard, and possibly the Independent as well, according to…
Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 16, 2009 5:19PM | 1 Comment »
As if you were under any illusions otherwise, the advertising and therefore media industry is getting very hurt by the recession, and now there’s some…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | January 13, 2009 10:39AM | 1 Comment »
Yes, things are that bad.
A short extract:
“Now I’m back in my own house in Dublin, uncorking some nice wine, ready for…
Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 12, 2009 7:18PM | 2 Comments »
