Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson has announced some headline-grabbing start-up plans. Her new media venture will be offering writers $100,000 advances, in return for the most explosive and engrossing long-form investigative journalism.
PaperLater: a personalised paper to read at your leisure
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8 Jul 2014
In an average day over 92,000 articles are posted online - the sheer volume of content is just unmanageable and impossible to consume. Combating this, UK-based PaperLater lets you save articles from the web, and in three days a customised printed paper is delivered to your door.
According to a survey by Pew, 70% of people get their news links from Facebook friends rather than news sources. News has gone social and newspapers are having to adapt to survive. The latest isThe Independent, whose little sister site i100 is like Reddit for current affairs.
While printed newspapers may be losing out to online news and apps, a Mexican newspaper- Más Por Más- has found an innovative way to grab people’s attention. It rigged paper towel dispensers to print breaking news every time someone tore off a sheet to dry their hands.
As cable news viewership shrinks, and YouTube formalises its battle plan to become a television network in its own right, how does theThe Young Turksreflect the new ideals and demands of its progressive young viewers?