I spent last weekend researching a piece for The Spinoff that advocates the establishment of a publicly funded national video streaming platform in New Zealand. The platform is pitched as an antidote to the global streaming wars. I have faith in Kiwis. I really believe they can do things other people can’t. The argument for “Platform NZ” […]
Category: News about news
Posts on news media, journalism and technology subjects, with a focus on Australia and New Zealand.
Around the world, democracies are waking up to a market failure in news. We’ve been talking about it for more than a decade. Now things are starting to happen. Governments are becoming involved in financing public interest journalism. This will become one of the big picture developments in news, the kind of development that marks […]
Last week I looked at paid search startup Neeva and the implications it might have for news. In the interview with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy we touched on the search engine’s use of copyrighted content within the interface and the possibility Neeva would share some of its revenue with content creators. Now Neeva has formally announced it will be allotting […]
In late 2020 the Australian government handed out over $53m in more than 100 grants as part of the Public Interest News Gathering (PING) programme. The overwhelming majority of the money (87%) went to the 10 biggest recipients. The funding distribution is pretty clear in the treemap above. For a more precise breakdown of the […]
There’s a company in California, well-financed and growing, working busily on a business that at first glance is doomed. Neeva is a subscription search engine. They want you to pay $5-$10 USD a month to use a service that at the moment we treat like air. I spoke to co-founder CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy about his […]
It’s time to tell it like it is. Today Crawford Media begins, a weekly newsletter covering news about news in Australia and New Zealand. For me, the newsletter is long overdue, but for the media environment we’re now in it couldn’t be more timely. In New Zealand, the first round of the Public Interest Journalism […]
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