Tag Archives: Media

Axel Springer Fights The Good Fight Against Ad Blocking

18 October 2015

Europe’s largest media group has decided to ban readers who use ad-blockers from its Bild website.

One Of The Main Arguments Of Ad-Blocking Advocates Is Inadmissible

20 September 2015

The release of iOS 9, the new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, which allows ad blocking in the Safari Internet browser, sparked yet another online debate about this technology.

Cecil The Lion’s Murder Confirms Stalin’s Perception Theory

9 August 2015

Hundreds of lions are killed by poachers and thousands of people are murdered by terrorists and dictatorships* every year in Africa. So why did Cecil’s assassination have such an impact?

Is The Media Really Becoming A Wire Service?

2 August 2015

That’s what Ezra Klein, the former Washington Post wonder boy and now editor-in-chief of Vox.com, posits in a column.

I Am Opposed To Journalists Being Paid For Clicks

19 July 2015

Slant, a new news site launched a few days ago by former employees of the Huffington Post, Bleacher Report and the New York Daily News, pays its journalists based on the traffic they generate.

Ad Blocking Is Piracy

14 June 2015

First, the digital industry explained to content producers and distributors that they had to offer their products for free on the web and monetize them through advertising. Now, it also wants to suppress this revenue stream. This is absurd from both a business and moral standpoint.

What Role For Publishers In The New Media Value Chain?

9 November 2014

On his blog, Ben Thompson devoted an article to the role of publishers in the new media value chain created by the increasing dominance of major digital platforms.