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Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian gave this year’s prestigious Andrew Olle Lecture. He spoke about the splintering of the Fourth Estate, how the media is currently experiencing its own vicious case of “the bends”, which will be the end of the media as we know it.

Big news in the paywall or not to paywall online media world. Boston Globe will launch a subscriber-only paid site that will replica its print edition, with a second free site to focus more on breaking news.

Indie girl mag Frankie has proved to be Australia’s latest publishing success in an industry of dead titles and dropping circulation. Editor Jo Walker explains how it was done.

When Google News launched in 2002, it declared “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms”. But now a dozen major publications are running their “Editors’ Picks” on the site.

Yesterday 200 journos were made redundant at UK Trinity Mirror, home of five national papers including The Daily Mirror, meaning 1/4 of the total editorial staff. It’s all just all part of the digital age, notes Roy Greenslade.

New Matilda editor Marni Cordell discusses the precarious future of the website: yes, it is still closing, unless a knight in shining armour appears very, very soon.

As New Matilda prepares to close its virtual doors, it takes a look back at long defunct Matilda magazine. No it’s not its predecessor, but a political satire mag that received 16 defamation writs.

The mainstream media are already preparing us for their demise. But what will politicians do when mass media is no longer available to convey their messages to voters?

The coming and going of independent sites is part of new media. But what lessons, if any, are there in the death of the leftish website New Matilda?

As of a year ago, Rupert Murdoch had never even used Google — so maybe he doesn’t realise that by cutting News Corp off from it, the organisation will cease to exist, writes Michael Wolff.

These days consumers have access to a wealth of health information. So why would they listen to a journalist? Well, The Google doesn’t know everything, writes Nick Miller. Factual analysis is worthy too.

The contributor budget has been cut here at Crikey, leading some to fear the publication will be run with a harder commercial edge following recent changes in ownership and management.

Online political news site Politico is going to launch a local Washington DC edition of the site, headed up by the former editor of WashingtonPost.com. It’s a pretty direct attack on The Washington Post’s DC supremacy, and HuffPo has its hands on an internal memo that outlines the plans.

Today’s “internet native” generation are never going to give up sharing and downloading things illegally over the internet, says an editor from the UK’s Channel 4. Attempting to lock up content will always fail: the future of the media is “spreadable and shareable”.

YouTube and L McDuff have blessed the world with an appalling mangling of “American Pie” to the theme, “The year the media died” — it’s so awful it’s good.

An unemployed Melbourne journalist turns to YouTube to promote himself.