The Guardian asked for my take on the death of The Daily. Here it is (with links that fell out on the way to London):
Jeff Jarvis. Photo: Buzz Machine
On Twitter, I’ve already been accused of schadenfreude over the death of News Corp.’s soon-to-die,
pay-walled, tablet-only, once-a-day news venture called The Daily.
Not so. I’d have loved to have seen an online-only news service make it. But The Daily was, in my view, doomed from the start because of all the adjectival modifiers listed above.
First, the pay wall: News Corp. proprietor Rupert Murdoch has elevated charging for content to a religion. He says people should pay for his products (though I’ve never seen a successful business plan in a competitive market built on the verb “should”). He turned his Times from an internet presence of note into a footnote because he insisted upon putting it behind a wall…
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About Zoran Opalic
Around the World: 1997. NY, USA - Design Workshop at the New York School of Visual Arts // 2003. Hamburg, Germany - Mario Garcia Studio - media design,future of print media.// 2004. Innsbruck, Austria - News Desk, News Desk work shop// 2007. NY, USA - Future of Media and New Technology, New York // 2007. Miami, USA - "React to the news in the short term - in the newsroom work flow".
More info:
January 1st, 2008:
madeIN magazine.
Occupation or position held: Publisher/Owner
Name and address of employer: Dobro Slovo
Brace Domany 8, 10000 Zagreb (Croatia)
Type of business or sector Publishing (Magazine) Web
January 1st, 2001 - December 31st, 2007
Vecernji list daily.
Occupation or position held: Art Director
Type of business or sector Publishing, Daily Newspaper.
Early Years:
I have worked on a different creative media projects — Jutarnji list daily (at the time - 1998. new daily newspapers in Croatia), Globus, Studio, HAK, Nova Vjencanja, Auto Plus...
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