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David Amerland: Niche, SEO and the paywall debate

On Journalism.co.uk journalist and SEO expert David Amerland writes on the role of search engine optimisation (SEO) in the future of online publishing and paid-for news models.

“Newspapers and those who run them have not understood that online visitors to generalised news sites will pay not for the quality of the news, but for its convenience,” he writes…

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Iain Hepburn: Podcasting, vodcasting and mobile journalism

Iain Hepburn, digital editor of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail (and delegate at our news:rewired event in January), shared his thoughts on mobile journalism and podcasting at a recent panel discussion on digital journalism at the Edinburgh Science Festival. A great starting point for our discussion of mobile for journalism and publishing at June’s news:rewired event.

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