Chris Jones

I am the digital managing editor at News Queensland, and I reckon it's a great time to be in newspapers!
The views expressed here are my own, however.

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

@butchward closes #futureforum with a rallying cry to not forget our primary role is to produce journalism that matters. Amen. Let's drink.

[Reportage Online @ReportageACIJ]

3 necessary Journalistic Promises: We will listen, we will respond, we will provide journalism that matters. - Butch Ward #futureforum

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

#futureforum begins and ends with the news business paradox: audience growing on the non-monetised platform; declining on the monetised one.

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

Fewer "copy touches" at bostonglobe not only leads to efficiencies but also better journalism #futureforum

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

Good paywall insight at #futureforum ... that what convinces subscribers to sign up is getting "something special", not news

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

"Your brand is your consumers' story": great insight and so true for newspaper brands #thinkaboutit #futureforum

[Dani Bevins-Sundvall @DaniBevins]

So far: Kim Williams: "Australians don't need dangerous new laws to give them media diversity. They just need a mobile phone." #futureforum

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

My #futureforum aha moment so far? The insight from @kdoctor to use smartphones as an "on-ramp" to other, easier-to-monetise screens

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

14pc of Oz newspaper ad revenues to be digital by 2016; 4pc of circ revenues: "No magic bullet," says Megan Brownlow #futureforum

[Steele Tallon @SteeleTallon]

Sweden's Schibsted, leaders in digital publishing @ profit, are "nice, will buy you a drink, but NOT NORMAL" says Jim Chisholm #futureforum

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

Audience intensity and serendipity the key to digital news success. @nytimes overrated: Jim Chisholm #futureforum

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

"The problem is not one of audience. It's finding successful business models for the digital age." http://t.co/N1hCyg8A

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

RT “@OffStreetTweet: "The media should be unafraid to interrogate" -- Chris Jones #WalkleyMediaTalks” Let's never forget it

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

@LisaYallamas I'll show you the stats: AVERAGE daily session duration now between 9 and 11 mins on http://t.co/9X60jLLX.

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@earljwilkinson on why being relevant to the audience is not a sin for journalism. #itisabouttheaudiencestupid http://t.co/EZs2oqrF

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

"A lot of young people will (soon) be amazed that trees were actually cut down to produce a daily newspaper" http://t.co/e0oDB9HB

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There is a future after all! via @earljwilkinson ... Regional language newspapers in India grew 12% in 2011: http://t.co/hQtidxcm

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Best use of front page puff box this year ... http://t.co/SThxlbFf

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What The Daily maybe should have looked like? Al Trivino's prototypes via @DrMarioRGarcia http://t.co/aXtKKzsf

[Chris Jones @ChrisJonesCM]

Question for the panel: what's more powerful? Mass or niche? #BAA