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• 08.30.08
  Put the Northern Echo, Hartlepool United, Clay Shirky and Jeff Jarvis in the same thought process. And the conclusion is? General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  Johnny Plunkett - like Lewis Wiltshire, see below - is ex-Archant; ex-Evening News in Mr P's case; ex-news reporter with my Mrs; the 'bigger paper' that he mentioned to Mr Scully was the thundering organ that once was the Norwich Evening News... http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2008/08/northern_echo_scores_with_real.html Hence the fact that I always tend to keep an eye on what he's thinking and writing on MediaGuardian... And the above piece is interesting; very interesting - in that it starts to drive towards where we were getting too with the 'Being the best of the seconds...' post upon which Lewis kindly commented on. http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=131#comments Because, start to put the two ...

  Tagged: Clay Shirky, Hartlepool Mail, Hartlepool United, Jeff Jarvis, Northern Echo
  
• 08.27.08
  Alas the days of being ‘first’ are long gone; now the challenge is to be the best of the seconds. General, Journalism | (3)

  It's something that's been niggling away at me for a while now; in part, it came about via a new mid-week arrangement for the local footballing Press here in Norwich. In part, it has also been lurking at the back of my thoughts re whether or not the former imperatives have changed for digital journalists. Particularly for me and my sports brethren. Is the be all and end all, to be first? In the good old days - certainly before football clubs became media institutions of their own - a good 'exclusive' was everything. Particularly to an 'evening' paper man when his own ...

  Tagged: MyFootballWriter.com
  
• 08.27.08
  No, had a good rummage. Can’t for the life of me see what Johnston are talking about… General | (1)

  OK, give up. No idea. http://www.easyjet.com/en/book/index.asp I was kind of expecting an 'Advertise here...' button; can't see one. So if EasyJet are, indeed, up to something on the self-service advertising front as the man from Johnston suggests they're keeping it very well hidden. Traditionally, it's one of those where you'd sign off with 'Answers on a postcard, please...' Us being new media luvvies, just drop us a comment if you can spot what EasyJet are doing... �

  Tagged: EasyJet, Johnston Press
  
• 08.27.08
  Johnston giving it large on the potential of a self-service advertising system riding to their rescue. Mmm… now there’s a thought… Advertising, General, MFW | (0)

  This was, of course, very interesting. And once again, big thumbs up for Mr Kirwan... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2008/08/27/johnston-press-1h08-results-the-conference-call/ One line stood out; that and their latest ad returns... "9.22: Danny Cammiade, chief operating officer, is winding himself up for a Big ‘Un. He starts out with a pleas for the “power of the regional press” based on research. (”One in three adults in our catchment areas read one of papers every week.”) In the background, I can hear analysts snoring. "He quotes some positive research from Google suggesting that newspaper advertising “works”, is “trusted” and “generates a response”. Better tell that to Eric Schmidt. "9.25: Now he’s ...

  Tagged: addiply.com, EasyJet, Johnston Press
  
• 08.22.08
  Thoughts on the food chain proposed by Mr Potts and Co; on how we might be the plankton for Whoville suburbia to thrive on… General, Journalism | (1)

  I'm a big fan of Mark Potts - even if his 'We were on the right track, just ran out of track...' line still haunts my every move. His latest blog post on the fate of the 'Whoville Bugle' is excellent; and the likely media eco-system that might replace it... http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2008/08/what-will-happen-when-the-presses-go-silent.html#comments The comment from WorkingReporter is even better; it gets right to the heart of where we need to get to - working out how to reward the content creators; where is the value in what we do... "Forget about newspaper vs blog vs web site vs citizen media. These labels are irrelevant. The ...

  Tagged: David Cushman, Mark Potts, Sir Tim Berners Lee, WorkingReporter
  
• 08.20.08
  A word for the NUJ. You can fight yesterday’s wars and lose… Or you can fight tomorrow’s battles and help us all win. General, Journalism | (1)

  Cards on the table first. I'm not an NUJ member. My Mrs, however, is. And as a part-time sub-editor at Archant (Norfolk), given events at Archant (Suffolk) she - along with 100s of others across the UK and the US - is firmly on the endangered species list. As, of course, are 65 souls across Trinity Mirror's Midlands stables... http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/08/trinity_mirror_leads_the_way_t.html Where the axe will exactly fall remains to be seen; but having been through a one-in-three redundancy process on the sports and subs desks at Archant two years ago, I would suspect that is where the brunt of the 'action' will be. But as the ...

  Tagged: NESTA, NUJ, OfCom, TrinityMirror
  
• 08.19.08
  TrinityMirror head for the hills and plant their final flag atop Fort Dunlop; in their fleeing wake lie 65 jobs and a weekly wasteland… General, Journalism, MFW | (8)

  An hour after writing the post below and out of the darkness that is the UK provincial newspaper industry comes this... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/19/trinitymirror.pressandpublishing ...65 jobs to go; and more to follow if they can't find a buyer for their clutch of weekly titles... Several lines stand out... not least this one: Trinity Mirror's three Birmingham titles will be served by a single sports desk at the new multimedia facility... Bang go the seperate title football writers that used to follow the Blues and the Baggies; one man from the Mail, the other from the Post. One man will be left to do the job of ...

  Tagged: Lord Fowler, MyLocalWriter, Project Stamford, TrinityMirror
  
• 08.19.08
  All credit to TrinityMirror; they said they would roll-out Banter… and here they come. Now to tackle the geography question… General, Journalism, MFW | (0)

  Given that we're all trying to fight the good fight out here in the digital wilderness - and as such the mood seems to be one of being eachother's 'critical friend' - it is interesting, and wholly commendable, to see TrinityMirror holding true to their promise of rolling out their ****banter.co.uk 'brand'. We've mentioned it before; it does - clearly - follow someone else's lead in offering premium quality local football content that endeavours to be both deadline-free and geography-lite... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=80 So, sure enough, to coincide with the start of the new Premiership season, here's comes www.newcastlebanter.co.uk www.sunderlandbanter.co.uk and, indeed, www.birminghambanter.co.uk Each proves true ...

  Tagged: Banter, Daily Mirror, East Anglian Daily Times, Eastern Daily Press, TrinityMirror
  
• 08.18.08
  If you want to see how scarce traditional media is becoming, park yourself in a Carrow Road Press box this season – or in Berlin this autumn General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  Apologies. For those of you who aren't big fans of the Football League Championship, what follows may be of scant interest. It may, however, be worth hanging in there - if only for an insight into just how scarce traditional media is becoming. As we've long maintained, that - in theory - is where the value remains; where media is scarce; beyond the 'gatekeeper'; to those places where not 'everybody' of Clay Shirky's fame can get to. http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=53 This Saturday and it was Norwich's first home game of the new season. They haven't, in fairness, been pulling up too many trees of late; they are ...

  Tagged: Berlin, Blackpool Gazette, Daily Telegraph, Eastern Daily Press, Frontline Club, Lancashire Evening Post, MyFootballWriter, Norwich Evening News, The Guardian
  
• 08.14.08
  Here’s an idea… Why not, for once, view the BBC as a potential partner not your mortal enemy. That particular title belongs to the Web. General, Journalism | (0)

  Here we go again... round the same block again with the dastardly BBC and its local video plans and the provincial Press industry, aka the Newspaper Society... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/13/bbc.pressandpublishing Just to recap where we've been before on this, try this one for size... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=97 But the more you read on this vexed subject - and the regional radio groups were joining giving the BBC a kicking the other week - the more you can't help thinking: 'Move on...' It's the BBC. And having been there, seen them and talked to them over content share, etc, etc... if it ever happens, it'll happen in 2011; it'll take them ...

  Tagged: Barnsley, BBC, Johnston Press, Rotherham, Sheffield Star, TrinityMirror
  

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