Given events that are fast befalling TrinityMirror today…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=41543&c=1
and, of course, here…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/30/trinitymirror.pressandpublishing
and here…
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/06/trinity_mirror_the_end_is_nigh.html
… you do have to wonder just how that all sits with the Newspaper Society’s ‘very upbeat’ view of the world.
The best line came from Citi Investment Research.
“The advertising environment remains volatile and there is no sign of the classified market bottoming yet,” they [...]
I was reading that line in the House Of Lords report again; the one where the Newspaper Society offered a ‘very upbeat’ assessment of the state of their nation; as opposed, of course, to the more sober, albeit slightly outsider’s line taken by Guardian editor Alan Rushbridger – a view-point that their lordships appeared to [...]
Give the walk we walk and the talk we try to talk, it would be wholly remiss not to give Lord Fowler’s epic work a mention.
The House of Lords’ report on ‘The Ownership Of The News’, Vol 1, is clearly a worthy document and for those of you with a couple of hours to spare, [...]
Interesting on many a front; reverse publishing is something that we’ve pondered with all that (potentially) MyFootballWriter.com content – what do you do with it all at the end of every week…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&storycode=41470&c=1
But for me, the killer line comes in the numbers… the fact that he attracts 72,000 uniques per month; on a site that – [...]
This is always well worth watching – the Newspaper Society versus the BBC.
Almost as good as Channel Four versus the BBC over where are they going to get their missing £150 mill from… from BBC Worldwide, says Channel Four, that’s a nice little earner…
Yes, it is. Get your grubby mits off, says the BBC.
Besides, you [...]
I guess we ought to do the introductions first; or rather, the credit.
I stumbled across a guy called Patrick Thornton last night who – from a distance – appears to be one of Jay Rosen’s ‘posse’ out in the States. In that he’s just taken over from Knight News Challenge winner David Cohn in working [...]
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We’ve already touched on the potential impact of CERN on our world twice before.
Once, of course, with regard to what CERN ‘old boy’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee is up to with his wad of Knight News Challenge cash – http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=73 – and once with regard to the mother of all operating systems that could soon be [...]
Interesting to read the Buzzmachine/Guardian take on the Huffington Post’s one-editor strong invasion of Chicago…
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/19/arianna-invades-chicago/
It’s a move that we’ve already walked once round the block.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=92
And I’m sure we’ll go round the block again with it. But, even now, I’m not sure that if I was given one word to describe it I would plump for [...]
With due apologies to The Smiths, but the fate of the Stamford Mercury is one that’s dear to my heart…
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/06/johnston_press_denies_sale_rum.html
We’ve obviously been round this block before…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=87
Because if there is any talk of a sale afoot there won’t be too many banks out there willing to grease the wheels of any sales either – unless they’re [...]