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Journalism Online
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Journalism Online

by Mike Ward
August 2013
Beginner
224 pages
5h 12m
English
Routledge
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1 What is online journalism?

‘Online Media may have come of age. But has online journalism?’

Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist1

Dot coms, dot bombs, dot rot and roll

Bob Eggington was sitting in a bar with some US online publishers. Talk, as it has a habit of doing, got round to money; in particular, how to make the Web pay. At that time, Bob was the project director of BBC News Online. The journalists wanted to know the BBC’s business model for its online news operation.

I looked at them and said, ‘Well here’s my business model. We spend a lot of money to collect a lot of data. Then we make it free on the Web, for anybody to consume, and we don’t make any money out of it.

At this point they started grinning and said, ‘Hey, that’s ...

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