News UK chief executive Mike Darcey said this week that the strategies of The Guardian and Mail Online were irrelevant to discussions about how to make professional journalism sustainable in a digital world.
Mail Online was not based on professional journalism, under his definition, and The Guardian was systematically loss-making – he said.
Does News UK really hold the key to journalism's future with its all or nothing subscription policy? This is the topic I discuss in this week's video blog.
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