New Australian news site Global Mail launches
One of the world’s best funded independent journalism projects today launched in Australia.
The Global Mail is the brainchild of former ABC journalist and Media Watch presenter Monica Attard.
It has been funded at around $3m-$4m per year by philanthropist Graeme Wood.
Also on the senior team is former Time Inc editor Jane Nicholls as CEO.
Fingers crossed.
How refreshing. Lovely design too.
Good luck, hope it goes well
I’ll give it a go.
Continues the trend of australian online news ventures started by established media types making technology and design decisions that are limiting and do more to restrict the success of these ventures than just about anything else they do.
Seems to be something to do with old media’s veneration of words and story on the page over new media’s veneration of internet technology.
And iPadism is great on an iPad but not really anywhere else.
A Twitter and Facebook feed wouldn’t go astray. Good luck with it all!
$3-4m a year is a lot for a media business without salespeople. With that cost base they must have 25-35 above average salary full timers on board.
Oh it is such a good idea, but I can’t seem to scroll sideways it just goes wacky.
Wow! This site is a sensation. Takes a few minutes to get used to the format so be patient with it. Fabulous images (as big as Gillard’s ego) and knockout takes on all kinds of happenings. Above all it’s engaging, and dare I say it…entertaining! Yes!
Would like to read this site every day!.
Would like to tread this site every day!.
I heard Monica interviewed on Tripple J’s Hack programme yesterday, she was great and anyone part of her team would be privileged. Good luck and looking forward to following the stories.
Great site, layout is difficult though
That layout isn’t going to last long: confusing and trendy just for the sake of it.
A little bit more browser testing!! – Great concept!
Hey Logic, your logic would be fine if 100% of the funding went as salaries to the writers, and they didn’t have management, legal, finance, rent, IT, programming, bandwidth costs etc.
OK try but … Mike Seccombe is a well performed hack as are one or two others they have on their list but does anyone care what he thinks about the Super Bowl? He’s not even known as a sports writer. And the mainstream media has already done over electricity prices, the social problems in WA mining towns etc. And what’s happening in Mongolia? Who gives a you know what! Like Crikey, they’ll start out high-minded but as the seed money dries up they’ll have to find themslves a niche audience, as in going to the left as Crikey has done. All the aggregation stuff is just that – raking together other media’s work. Wasn’t Drudge doing that a decade ago?