30 August 2008 – 12:41 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
27 August 2008 – 11:46 am
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 [...]
22 August 2008 – 12:31 am
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; [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
14 August 2008 – 10:18 pm
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 [...]