Joanna Geary | If content is king, collaboration is queen.

If I were a smart journalist just making my way in the industry, I’d be trying to find a way to distinguish myself from my peers – something to give me a competitive edge.
With all this talk about journalists embracing digital media, I’d start having a look at where – up to this point – technology hadn’t much impacted on what I was being told about journalism. By finding this, and by exploiting...

Over the years I’ve read an awful lot of things about the future of newspapers in a digital age… and I mean an AWFUL lot.
Every so often though, someone utters a nugget that chimes so clearly with me that it lodges in my brain and becomes part of the structure of my own arguments and thoughts on the topic....

It chimes every time someone buys an online subscription to The Times.
It was built by Peter MacRobert from News International‘s R&D Lab. Peter explains a bit more about how it works in the video below:
“The subscription ringer is an Arduino circuit developed in the News International R&D lab. The battery-powered circuit polls an API regularly via a Wifly wireless shield. When the daily subscription count has increased it pulses a solenoid...

Achieving Sustained Cost Reduction – Brad Power – Harvard Business Review
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