Can quality journalism and reporting work online? Is it sustainable? Both questions make this week’s quality journalism expert, Marni Cordell from New Matilda, particularly relevant.
New Matilda
HuffPo setting its sites on Oz? Let’s wait and see
Last week the founder of the Huffington Post said, in what may or may not have been a throwaway line, that it would soon open sites to serve several countries, including Australia.
Media briefs: W-O-eful Oprah coverage … kid-sized paywall
New Matilda saved! Sort of. With 10 minutes to go and $25,000 remaining in the New Matilda subscriberthon, things were looking a little desperate for the opinion and analysis website. Plus, Oprah-fever and other media tidbits of the day.
New New Matilda attempts old old media strategy
If online commentary website New Matilda doesn’t raise more than $60,000 in the last week of its last-ditch subscriberthon, its virtual doors will be shut permanently.
New Matilda: $80,000 in two weeks?
Online commentary and opinion website New Matilda has only two weeks left of its fund-raising drive, otherwise it’s the end for the publication. Perhaps if some more $20,000 donations appear, it’ll stay open…
New New Matilda has lift-off
It’s the re-launch of online commentary website New Matilda! Back up and publishing every day until Christmas, to see if the publication can prove financially viable. It’s going for a community radio station subscriber model, rather than paywalls.
The new New Matilda
Online commentary website New Matilda is reopening its virtual doors once more, after a well-publicised closure in June. It’ll return as a paid subscriber site, and expects to be back to full publishing capacity in 2011.
R.I.P. New Matilda
Australian online journal New Matilda shut up shop last week. It was a classy, responsible and credible website - and it suffered because of it, says Jeremy Bass.
New Matilda farewells its readers…for now
New Matilda editor Marni Cordell pens a farewell letter to readers as New Matilda published its final edition on Friday. But this isn’t the end of the New Matilda site…
No new New Matilda…yet
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fraser vs. Whitlam: the fight of last century
Crikey readers have their say on the RSPT, Rudd’s principles and the demise of New Matilda. Plus, do we judge ex-PM’s just on their actions while they’re in power?
When online media outlets pay peanuts, they get monkeys
Freelancers are increasingly waking up to realise that if their work is good enough for a commercial outlet, they deserve to be paid.
Crikey Says: The death of New Matilda is bad news for everyone
Today Australian online news and commentary site New Matilda announced it’s calling it quits. This is bad news for everyone.
What next for the Aussie blogosphere?
With news that New Matilda is folding, the tiny Aussie political blogosphere has shrunk even further. Replicating the magazine model online just doesn’t work, says Mark Bahnisch.
New media death watch: New Matilda to fold
Australian online comment website New Matilda is preparing shut its virtual doors, after funding for the venture dried up.
