The internet: killing travel journalism? A while back, I weighed in with my thoughts on how the internet is supposedly killing travel journalism. At the bottom, I made a small point which I didn’t think too much of at the time, but I am increasingly coming to think may be important. Travel companies as [...]
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Is there money in travel writing? Jeremy Head has written a fascinating piece on the new travel technology news service, Tnooz.com. He goes through the fears that many travel writers are facing about the internet taking over from print. To put it in a nutshell, where will travel writers get their money from in the [...]
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The end of free news: implications for travel You could be forgiven for thinking that yesterday’s post on Rupert Murdoch’s plans to end the era of free news had nothing to do with travel. It’s a fair cop. But I also think it has implications for travel writing and travel content on newspaper websites. If [...]
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The end of free news? News International proprietor Rupert Murdoch has signalled his intention to end the era of free content on the internet. He has not yet announced how he will do this, but it is likely that his newspaper websites will be introducing some sort of charges in the next year. This means [...]
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