http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/01/27/rebekah-wades-first-public-speech-in-full/ Online journalism news Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/01/27/rebekah-wades-first-public-speech-in-full/comment-page-1/#comment-9647 Unrequired Reading {27.1.09 to 29.1.09} Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:01:25 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=7380#comment-9647 [...] Rebekah Wade’s first public speech in full | Journalism.co.uk - "Last year, we gave away over 163 million copies in bulks to maintain these levels. We listed 270 million foreign sales. We gave away 120 million free CD’s and DVDs - of questionable quality and at enormous cost - just to rent readers. We paid our retailers and wholesalers over 800 million pounds in margins that have outstripped RPI. And while 1,400 corner shops closed, it’s been years since we developed alternative new routes to market. We saw another increase in the number of free newspapers. In 2008 we distributed 639 million copies. The huge growth in digital still doesn’t pay for high quality journalism. We give away our expensive editorial content free online without an economic model that compensates for the loss in traditional revenues. The rising cost of news and magazine print is in double figures and there is the small matter of the recession." [...] [...] Rebekah Wade’s first public speech in full | Journalism.co.uk – "Last year, we gave away over 163 million copies in bulks to maintain these levels. We listed 270 million foreign sales. We gave away 120 million free CD’s and DVDs – of questionable quality and at enormous cost – just to rent readers. We paid our retailers and wholesalers over 800 million pounds in margins that have outstripped RPI. And while 1,400 corner shops closed, it’s been years since we developed alternative new routes to market. We saw another increase in the number of free newspapers. In 2008 we distributed 639 million copies. The huge growth in digital still doesn’t pay for high quality journalism. We give away our expensive editorial content free online without an economic model that compensates for the loss in traditional revenues. The rising cost of news and magazine print is in double figures and there is the small matter of the recession." [...]

]]> http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/01/27/rebekah-wades-first-public-speech-in-full/comment-page-1/#comment-9611 Sun editor Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Wordle | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:50:01 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=7380#comment-9611 [...] Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp lecture, courtesy of Wordle (hat tip to Jason Cobb). Or read the speech in full [...] [...] Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp lecture, courtesy of Wordle (hat tip to Jason Cobb). Or read the speech in full [...]

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