- A country goes behind a paywall
How about this for a paywall? Slovakia's media have erected one around the entire country.Nine major news organisations - including three broadsheet newspapers, a tabloid, two magazines and a television station - have banded together to charge a single subscription fee for access to their content.Launched yesterday, Project Piano will be free for the next two weeks. But after that, users will pay about 87p a week or £2.54 a month to read, view and listen to material provided by some of the country's main news organisations.They include Slovakia's oldest daily Pravda, its leading broadsheet SME, the business paper Hospodarske noviny, sports title Dennik Sport, weekly magazine Tyzden, media business site Medialne.sk, video portal MeToo.sk, and monthly IT magazine PC Revue. The paywall project - call it the new Iron Curtain - has been orchestrated by Tomáš Bella, former editor-in-chief of SME's website, and now chief executive of Piano Media.His company will take 30% of the revenue, giving the rest to the news organisations based on the amount of time that users spend on their individual sites. Users will be expected to pay to make comments, a move that is hoped to elevate the level of conversation.What can Bella expect to make? Slovakia has just over 4m internet users in a population of 5.7m. He estimates that between 0.8 and 1.5% of the population will subscribe. According to paidContent's maths, if Bella achieves the higher end of his forecast, the company's earnings would be about £1.8m a year. If the venture succeeds, he plans on exporting the idea to other countries, such as Holland and Denmark.Sources: Nieman Journalism Lab/Editors' weblog/paidContentPaywallsSlovakiaCharging for contentDigital mediaNewspapersGreenslade on EuropeRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © 方法については、この有料記事のために？スロバキアのメディアは全体country.Nine主要報道機関の周りを建立 - 三大判の新聞、タブロイド紙、2つの雑誌、テレビ局など - がcontent.Launched昨日、プロジェクトピアノにアクセスするための単一のサブスクリプション料を請求して団結している次の2週間無料で提供される
- Berlin Wall: 28 Years of Confrontation
Saturday marks 50th anniversary of day wall went up; was symbol of two worlds: one that was free, one behind 'Iron Curtain' 土曜日は壁が上昇した日の50周年を迎える、二つの世界の象徴だった：無料だったもの、一つの後ろに。。u0026quot;鉄のカーテン。。u0026quot;
- Georgian TV Beams Russian Language News to Russia
PIK, or First Caucasus News, is state-funded channel that aims to penetrate Moscow's 'iron curtain' around region PIK、またはファーストコーカサスニュースは、地域の周りにモスクワの。。u0026quot;鉄のカーテン。。u0026quot;を浸透することを目的と公設チャンネルです
- Eric Strach obituary
My father, Eric Strach, who has died aged 96, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Helens and Whiston hospitals, Merseyside. He specialised in the treatment of children with spina bifida, and designed appliances which improved their quality of life, including the Strach-Edney calliper and a shunt to drain fluid from the head, for those affected by hydrocephalus.Eric was a keen amateur astronomer and built a solar observatory in his garden. His observations and drawings of solar flares and prominences were meticulously executed and published in the journal of the British Astronomical Association.Eric was born into a close-knit Jewish family in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where his father owned an umbrella shop. After graduating in medicine from Prague University in 1938, Eric went on holiday to France. As the situation in Europe deteriorated, his parents dissuaded him from returning. Eric tried desperately to arrange a visa for his older sister, Ilse, and her children. He always thought he could have done more to save them.He arrived in the UK in 1940 with the Czech army and resumed his medical career, becoming the senior house surgeon at Wigan Infirmary. He married Margaret Forshaw in 1945. After the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia to help with the typhus epidemic in the Terezin concentration camp. He and Margaret intended to live in Czechoslovakia but, when Eric discovered that his family had perished in concentration camps, decided to settle in the UK.Until the fall of the iron curtain, Eric did not return. After the establishment of the Czech Republic in 1990, Eric set about having a memorial stone erected in the Jewish cemetery in Slavkov, near Brno, where his grandparents had lived, and renovating the synagogue there. An inaugural ceremony was held on 24 Ma 96歳で死去した父は、エリックStrach、セントヘレンズとウィストン病院、マージーサイドコンサルタント整形外科医だった
- May Europe's multicultural new generation succeed where we failed | Loretta Napoleoni
Writing to her son, Loretta Napoleoni looks forward to a continent breaking free of history's straitjacketDear Julian,Next year you're 18 and will leave secondary school, no doubt excited and at the same time worried. For the average European teenager, the future must look both bleak and exciting at the moment. Joblessness, mountains of debt, prophecies of monetary meltdown and the rare prospect of a secure professional career muddy the view.Thirty-five years ago a generation of school leavers – your parents – looked at a future equally thrilling and bleak. Coming of age in the shadow of nuclear holocaust and terrorism, this generation had to make do with double-digit inflation and unemployment.And yet it also sparked a sexual revolution, embraced communism and anti-conformism. In the 1970s, this generation also took to the streets, yelling anti-government slogans, opposing school reforms considered backward and elitist. It demanded free access to university in a continent equally on the brink of political collapse. Then the iron curtain was raised, Germany accomplished its long-lasting dream of reunification, and Europe even overcame the energy crisis. In the mid-1980s European economies had started growing again and enjoyed what appeared to be a long period of stability. But all that turned out to be one gigantic illusion.Almost everyone – politicians and bankers alike – abused what shy recovery there was, profited from deregulation and offshoring, outsourced jobs abroad while dismantling the remnants of the welfare state at home. In just one generation, income inequalities threw us back to the inter-war years, preparing the ground for a new great depression, only this time right on our doorstep.What went wrong? Our endemic desire to be part of an elite, to be differe 彼女の息子への書き込み、ロレッタNapoleoniを使用すると、18している中学校を残して歴史のstraitjacketDearジュリアンの自由を壊す大陸、来年、興奮は間違いないと心配して、同時に楽しみにしています
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