Hot Press shut down
MUSIC MAGAZINING in Australia’s pretty tough, if the recent toll is anything to go by Hot Press - another heavily syndicated mag, this time sourcing its material from Irish mag of the same name - may have just outlasted Nylon, folding after about a year, according to The Brag. Or have they just moved?
Future of journalism is all automated . . . .
Check it.
Snarl
23 Aug 06 at 4:52 am
For finance, but surely not art. I guess the kind of music journalism that involves scouring the press release for clues, emailing a list of questions and then restructuring the release and questions into an article could probably be put together using a neural network. But can you really imagine great feature writers being replaced by algorithms?
calico
23 Aug 06 at 7:46 am
Of course ‘GREAT feature writers’ won’t be replaced by algorithms . . . . . but none of us would notice if the other 99% were.
heh heh
Snarl
24 Aug 06 at 3:02 pm
Ben Butler confirmed Hot Press’s gone, but their other mag Riot’s still around though.
matt
28 Aug 06 at 10:36 am