The killing fields of digital publishing
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I’m looking forward to Scire. I have read a lot of John McDuling’s work in The Age/SMH. Will be good to have another business news and analysis competitor to Nine/News Corp Australia. Would have been a big get for them if they had have successfully recruited Zoe Samios too. She’s an absolute workhorse for media coverage at The Age/SMH. I’d also be interested to see what price point Scire charges for its paywall and whether it is implemented straight away and whether it is a hard or metered paywall.
The Future of Everything article by Tim Dunlop you shared was an excellent recommendation by the way. The article quoted someone who made a great point about how Nine/NCA never hyperlink in their articles. It’s so true and to their detriment I feel. Trying to keep readers on their websites. It’s just not the way websites are supposed to work though.
And I’m in full agreement with you on the hole Delimiter and Renai Le May has left in the Australian technology news arena. I was hooked on Delimiter. Even becoming a paying subscriber of a few different paywall iterations that were implemented for the sustainability of the site. Renai and Delimiter sparked an early interest in government policy on the NBN in me.
Keep up the great work Tim!