Articles: January, 2010

Do you want to leave the law?

January 26, 2010

Fed up with the law? Dreaming of an escape from its rigours? Desperate not merely to fill out your last timesheet but, ideally, to burn it, too?
If you’re so inclined the good folk at www.leavinglaw.com might provide some solace, ideas and assistance.
Image courtesy of C.P. Storm.

Murdoch to sell papers via Twitter?

January 26, 2010

Amid rumours that Rupert Murdoch is both introducing a pay wall to his British titles and selling them, speculation is rife among the Twitterati that all negotiations for the sale will be conducted via Twitter alone.
Tweeted @barkingmadrumour: “RM says lawyers must be more concise. He insists 140 characters is more than enough for a Memorandum [...]

No Recession (as the election looms…)

January 26, 2010

It’s official. We’re out of the recession. Industry may be collapsing and people being laid off left, right and centre, but our leaders – Messrs Brown and Cameron – are united in proclaiming that we have turned a corner. We may have done so gently – in fact, we may still be on the bend, [...]

Losing the will to pay through the wall

January 25, 2010

It’s a tricky business, the art of securing reader loyalty – and cash. Whether pay walls will work is the hot topic among media folk at present, with all eyes on the Murdoch empire and its reported implementation of pay walls in May. If there is a consensus, it appears to be one of doubt. [...]

Breakingviews sets the pace

January 25, 2010

Interesting piece in the Guardian about Hugo Dixon, pay walls and Breakingviews. What’s the secret of Dixon’s paid-content success? “Distinctive, value-added content,” says the former Eton King’s Scholar and Oxford graduate.
For the uninitiated, Breakingviews, which was recently acquired by Thomson Reuters, provides around 20 bite-sized pieces of insight a day to a specialist community. Each [...]