Here I am, conjuring a payment model for online news. Not really! No, I am sitting with Peter Atkinson of Pagemasters. Here’s just one thing that’s been said of what is happening with their being employed by a large newspaper publisher. This photo is, all in all, kind of hilarious, as I was there as the semi-token young person from the digital realm. In my defense, noone told me everyone would wear suits.  I spoke a bit about the momentum gathering behind #longreads and the favours print media could maybe do itself by no longer maintaining the artifices of the glory days: instead of presenting an “everything’s great!” facade, mastheads could do well to expose the costs incurred by good journalism, forensically, and why’s it important and therefore why people should pay.


Here I am, conjuring a payment model for online news. Not really! No, I am sitting with Peter Atkinson of Pagemasters. Here’s just one thing that’s been said of what is happening with their being employed by a large newspaper publisher. This photo is, all in all, kind of hilarious, as I was there as the semi-token young person from the digital realm. In my defense, noone told me everyone would wear suits. 


I spoke a bit about the momentum gathering behind #longreads and the favours print media could maybe do itself by no longer maintaining the artifices of the glory days: instead of presenting an “everything’s great!” facade, mastheads could do well to expose the costs incurred by good journalism, forensically, and why’s it important and therefore why people should pay.

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