Comments on: NUJ’s Journalist magazine to go online-only

By: NUJ’s Journalist magazine to launch website? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:39:54 +0000

[...] Union of Journalists (NUJ) magazine the Journalist is available only as a downloadable pdf – a decision criticised by some, who argue that a dedicated website for the publication is [...]

By: Joanna Geary

Joanna Geary — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:16:48 +0000

I agree with Laura. Why make it a pdf? Why not just have an online edition and let members choose if they want a print edition or not (and perhaps pay more if they do)?

By: Nick Booth

Nick Booth — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:34:18 +0000

Sorry – its not you. Doh

By: Nick Booth

Nick Booth — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:33:48 +0000

Would’t it be simpler and better to write the edition as a blog, putting the stories up as you finish them?

Then you could send members a link and perhaps even encourage them to start using feedreaders?

By: Laura Oliver

Laura Oliver — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:57:01 +0000

I agree – I think this move will have a negative impact on membership rather than positive, because of the pdf format rather than committing wholeheartedly to an online edition.

The union suffered a net loss of 226 members last year, according to the NUJ’s annual report – the first decline in 7 years.

By: Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:28:17 +0000

Good for trees. Bad for postmen and pretty likely to be a disaster for circulation.

The Journalist has a print circulation around four times that of the Press Gazette and has been wasting a major opportunity to fund itself with advertising for years.

Does the NUJ honestly expect 20,000+ people to visit its website, download a PDF and read it on their computers? With this move the NUJ will decimate readership and seriously undermine its main communication channel to its members.

Well done NUJ, you’ve shot yourselves in the foot yet again.