Economics of News: New Statesman Alan Rusbridger on paywalls and funding schemes
Knives out for the Beeb; is Facebook a threat or opportunity ?
Is there an economic model for serious news? Let's hope so - but the gales blowing through my old industry are now truly frightening. When I stepped down from the Guardian just over a year ago, my Guardian Media Group colleagues were happy to go on the record to emphasise their confidence in increasing digital revenues and a future based on growth. But something profound and alarming has been happening in recent months and all our eyes ought to be on the West Coast giants - especially, but not only, Facebook - that are cleaning up quite extraordinarily.
-- Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian and principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.