January 27, 2011
We live in this increasingly interconnected world: investments don’t pause at our increasingly porous borders, and we’re personally connected through international freight and travel and social media. The relentless efficiency measures wherever you work mean that when someone gets sick, there’s noone left to cover. In that kind of world, failure is proof we’re trying new things, it’s a way of coming up with non-incremental solutions, increasingly it’s just part of what we do.
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January 24, 2011
When New Matilda closed its doors at the end of June, 2010, a lot of people sighed. Others shook their heads (“Someone should do something about this!”). A few people said they had a bad business model (“What, paying writers!”) and a few hard heads just thought it was part and parcel of running a media business in this day and age (“Fail fast!”). But with the indefatigable Marni Cordell at the helm and Catriona Menzies-Pike as associate editor, we should have known to expect more.
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