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title: "Everything has already moved"
date: 2005-01-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Everything has already moved

Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, [writes](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062741/http://www.simonwaldman.net/the-changing-rules-of-access):

“Gizmodo gets[ handed an interview with Bill Gates](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062741/http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/gmoney-and-me-bill-gates-interview-029198.php). Good for them, I say – and a smart move by Microsoft. Now here’s a big challenge to traditional media: yes, anyone can run a blog and call themselves a reporter, but ‘access’ is operated almost on a cartel basis. The ability to bag the big names is one of the things that keeps big media big. If that moves, everything moves.”



I don’t call myself a reporter, yet I managed to get [an interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062741/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002434.php) with O’Reilly Media CEO [Tim O’Reilly](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062741/http://tim.oreilly.com/) last year. And either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is my next target! (I’m half kidding… actually I think I’ll approach the [Flickr](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062741/http://www.flickr.com/) founders for my next interview).

p.s. perhaps I should ask Simon for a job. 🙂

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/everything_has.php))*