There's no doubt that the Media Guardian dwarfs competitors in the UK. If you take a RSS feed of their service, weekday story rate is often in the fifties and higher (it tails off, understandably at weekends, and Sundays see feeds of distinctly non-media stories from The Observer).
Things are apparently going to be different under new editor Dan Sabbagh. According to a piece by Dominic Ponsford in Press Gazette, there'll less dressing up "found" copy, which may have started in the so-called Business-To-Business press. He quotes Dan thus "We don’t want to compete with you – where we do compete with you, we want to back out of it. We want to showcase your stuff.... we want to become more like a media portal, so that you find everything you want to find through us."
Shades of Gawker ?
Monday, November 1, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment