24 December 2008 – 12:32 am
Fair play to Patrick Smith of PaidContent for spotting this gem on the IBM website…
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-ibms-digital-restructuring-plan-saves-trinity-mirror-30-percent-on-midl/
Cos clearly when times are hard and every penny needs to be accounted for, it’s time to get the consultants in. And without the experts from IBM, who would have ever concluded that one of the travails facing the provincial newspaper [...]
18 December 2008 – 12:07 pm
As I might have mentioned before, I first cut my journalistic teeth on the wonderful weekly newspaper series that was The Wiltshire Gazette & Herald…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=44
Then owned by Westminster Press, there were six editions; each with their slip pages and four with their own district offices – Malcolm in Malmesbury, our Mickey (now of BBC Match [...]
15 December 2008 – 7:38 pm
Doesn’t need a comment; just a wider audience…
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2008/12/questions-about-decherds-140-raise.html#comments
15 December 2008 – 11:18 am
Clearly, as Jeff says, the Chatham House rules applied.
So we have no clear idea of what was actually said – or by whom.
Merely a flavour; a tone; a thrust.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/15/digitalmedia-pressandpublishing
But given the block that we walked around on Saturday night…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=196
Lines like this were interesting…
“Others, however, saw no promising models, and so some considered what is not [...]
14 December 2008 – 4:01 pm
Only cos it’s Sunday and I’m a bit bored, but if Ms Bailey and Ms McCall did wander up Whitehall, there could be a very interesting conversation to be had… particularly if they were to be met by Mr Watson, MP, and he had someone from MumsNet – or, indeed, NetMums – there beside him.
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/03/power-of-information-new-taskforce-and-speech/
Cos, [...]
14 December 2008 – 1:28 am
Earlier this year Lord Fowler and his House of Lords colleagues published a report on the future ownership of the news – a worthy and, no doubt, genuine bid by central Government to try and get a grip on where the UK media industry was heading.
Given the state of this Media Nation of ours six [...]
12 December 2008 – 1:49 pm
We have, of course, muttered much about the virtues of this new ‘link economy’; that as this great beast that is the Web chews us all up and spits us out again, who can – in all honesty – afford to be all things to all men?
Who can, hand on heart, be this all-singing, all-dancing [...]
11 December 2008 – 10:30 pm
[9pm follow up... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=192 ]
Where next… From Mr Potts…
“Sharing, clustering and consolidation. We’ve already seen competing newspapers starting to share resources, like the announcement that the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram will share arts critics, or the story-sharing among South Florida or North Carolina papers, or papers even printing and distributing their competitors.
[...]
11 December 2008 – 4:19 pm
Given the blood that appears to be splattering around the walls of Newsquest’s NW operations right now… some 80-odd Bolton printers look the next to go; six days before Christmas…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/11/downturn-pressandpublishing
… it took me back to this… http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=180
Or rather this particular line from Newsquest’s digital head…
“All I can say is that it is welcome news and [...]