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February 2009

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• 02.11.09
  Something for our next ‘VIP Club’ agenda; that maybe we need to spin the Newspaper Society’s thoughts back towards the green shoots… Advertising, General, Journalism | (1)

  Apologies. Blame AOL. Where were we? Given tragic events in Australia of late, perhaps the words 'forest' and 'fire' ought to be dropped from OWAB's book of over-used catch-phrases. But, given this weekend has brought news of Johnston Press busily hawking round the family silver newspaper-wise - or not, depending on who the source of the story is... - I still maintain, along with our Sly, that there is an urgency and desparation to our times that has yet to be fully grasped in certain quarters. Pete Kirwan nailed it with his recent post... http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2009/02/09/the-financial-reporting-season-a-moment-of-truth-at-recession-central/ That if the genie is not already out of the ...

  Tagged: Johnston Press, Newspaper Society, Northcliffe/DMGT, VIP Club
  
• 02.04.09
  Another kick in the kidneys, suggests Jeff, one that Robert C Wonderling was already administering last May. A rubicon being crossed? Advertising, General, Journalism | (0)

  Clearly a court ruling in far-away Maine has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever on these shores. So it can't be deemed a 'land-mark' moment in the history of newspaper advertising in any strict legal sense. But, neverthless, it still ought to make waves on this side of the Atlantic; if nothing else, it demonstrates the temper of the times... http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/04/one-more-kick-in-the-kidneys-for-papers-the-end-of-legal-ads/ Ms Anderson, of Newspaper Society fame, could certainly do without it after her reaction to Lord Carter's 'Digital Britain' report last week included a specific demand that local council advertising continued to be routed through local newspapers... “Among the range of measures the Newpaper Society has ...

  Tagged: Jeff Jarvis, Newspaper Society
  
• 02.03.09
  A new business model for journalism? Well, you start with Evslin’s Law and work from the bottom up… General, Journalism, MLW | (4)

  As ever these days there is much hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing to be had as to which way next for the business models for news. Down the nearest pan, is all too-often the general conclusion. Mr Shirky was at it the other day... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/10/02/aop-op-2008-todays-television-may-not-be-worth-sitting-still-for-says-us-author-clay-shirky/ Given that this was the man who launched a 1,000 hopes and dreams on my 40th birthday some three, long, long years ago, I still ponder long and hard about what he has to say... even if we have long gone our seperate ways in certain areas... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=41 But these three lines chimed. 'The problem for media professionals is that the industry still ...

  Tagged: Adrian Holovaty, Clay Shirky, EveryBlock, Jeff Jarvis
  
• 02.02.09
  Try as Lord Carter might, perhaps the problem was he just couldn’t get how newspapers might fit into a Digital Britain… General, Journalism | (1)

  Yesterday we posed a question as to whether this forest fire of our worst imaginings was actually raging with such an intensity that it could all be over before Lord Carter has barely begun... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=235 The comment that follows is well worth a read; the analogy is wonderful as it is pointed from NC... 'I see the newspaper industry as moving towards the end of middle-age, growing increasingly aware of its own mortality. 'Like someone nearing retirement, it might well expect to have a couple of decades left before it’s ready to start pushing up the daisies. 'However the reality is many groups haven’t led ...

  Tagged: Digital Britain, Newspaper Society, Sly Bailey, TrinityMirror
  
• 02.01.09
  What if this forest fire is raging with such a ferocity that the next time Lord Carter blinks, the Sheffield Star is gone? General, Journalism | (3)

  There were a couple of pieces that rolled into one, bigger thought over the weekend; that and a big, warm, over-due welcome for the first honorary bird on our blogroll, Jemima Kiss... ... who banged a couple of large nails on the head on the back of Lord Carter's first draft of his 'Digital Britain' thing last week with this... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jan/29/digitalmedia-bbc In particular... 'the report seemed fixed on pushing traditional media companies to transform for this demand. 'The future for the BBC, for Channel 4, for local newspapers and for radio - the report is focused on helping these behemoths plan for the future, ...

  Tagged: Archant, Digital Britain, Johnston Press, Lord Carter, TrinityMirror
  

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