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• 07.23.09
  Why Michael Fabricant MP might have just begun to wake up to the challenges we all face; GMG and Mr Rusbridger very much included. Advertising, General, Journalism | (3)

  Courtesy of Martin Moore and those fine people at the Media Standards Trust, I forayed up into the big, bad Smoke yesterday afternoon to sit and listen to Alan Rusbridger's lecture on 'Why Journalism Matters...' at the British Academy. It was, as you might expect, an interesting experience. Not least for the manner in which it was reported and the emphasis that was missing from the written word. This was The Guardian's report of their illustrious leader in action... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/22/local-news-scrutiny-future-journalism The 'offending' passage is this one... "This bit of journalism is going to have to be done by somebody," Rusbridger said. "It makes me worry ...

  Tagged: Addiply, Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, www.TheLichfieldBlog.co.uk
  
• 07.20.09
  Answers on a postcard, please… but why might the blind leading the blind make better progress than those who work with a certain ‘knowledge’ to impart? General | (0)

  I will say here and now that I don't know the answer; how the following 'fits' within this world of 'collaborative individualism' as imagined by, er, Jeremy Hunt MP at the recent RebootBritain event. He and Messrs Limerick & Cunnington some 15-odd years ago... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=307 Indeed, in recounting this tale I have this fond hope that out there someone of a psychologist bent will pop up and say: 'Yes, this happens because...' and everything will fit that much neater into place. Anyway, as the more Twitter-minded of you will know, I spent the weekend in a rural Norfolk field; helping out at Little ...
• 07.17.09
  Sending a message of congratulations to Stephen and Co. But why stop there? Why the fear of becoming a player? Advertising, General, Journalism | (0)

  Clearly this is very good news... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/jul/17/investigative-journalism-cityuniversity And congratulations to all concerned. It does, however, beg one question. And it's a question that we've asked before of the J-Schools both here and abroad. For if the playing field is starting to empty, why don't they fancy being a player... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=117 Because as much as that "£2 million" figure will dominate the headlines, there was a line in that story that might deserve as wide an airing. 'According to Grey, the bureau will not be a publisher. It will operate instead as a journalism "production house". It will sell its stories on to papers and magazines...' Which, for ...

  Tagged: Addiply, Bureau of Investigative Reporting
  
• 07.09.09
  Why I suspect Christmas might have come a little earlier this year for Martin, Sir Tim and the MediaStandardsTrust… General, Journalism | (0)

  Tomorrow I'm leaving my little Norfolk fastness and making this week's foray into the Big Bad Smoke to attend this... http://newsinnovationlondon.eventbrite.com/ Hosted by Martin Moore and the MediaStandardsTrust, it promises to be an interesting afternoon - not least for the fact that the words 'media', 'standards' and 'trust' will be all the Twitter trending rage on the back of #murdochgate and the inevitable storm that is about to engulf News International. Not to mention the PCC, the Metropolitan Police, David Cameron et al... For a House of Commons that has itself just been put through the media mincer over the whole issue of MPs' ...

  Tagged: Addiply, NewsInternational, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 07.01.09
  How do we join the dots in a Digital Britain? How do we find a little pot of hyper-local revenue gold from that data mine that is the doctors surgery…? Advertising, General, Journalism | (3)

  Living next door to a newsagents does, occasionally, have its advantages. Stumbling to get a couple of pints of milk first thing in the morning, you do see what's on the billboard... what news was 'breaking' some 12 hours ago. And in the case of this morning's Eastern Daily Press, it was 'news' that Norfolk - and Suffolk - now have their very own 'medical maps'. And here's said story... http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED30%20Jun%202009%2021%3A45%3A28%3A797 So, living in south Norfolk, I was duly heartened to discover that I can expect to live at least three years longer than a bloke living in Yarmouth. 'Men in South Norfolk can expect ...

  Tagged: Addiply, Digital Britain, Loddon
  

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• It’s a simple point – one that GMG and their Leeds outpost has just started to prove. It’s always been the little victories… ;)
• The future provision of local news in the UK heads deep, deep into the long grass. Olympics first peeps, your survival later…
• Mr Schmidt is bang on the money – again. The trick may well be to let people personally organise the ‘news’ that really matters to them…
• Five slides with no story attached; for that, you’ll all just have to use your imagination…
• A live London Underground map sets the data miners’ hearts a-racing; for me, however, there are richer seams to be mined deep underground…
• Why, IMHO, 81 into MyCornwall.TV and YourNorwich.TV won’t go; whatever Messrs Parry and Shott think, the answer to local ‘TV’ will bubble up from below…
• DMGT appear curiously at ease with central Government ad spend going down the proverbial toilet; fine, in which case give those last pennies to every Josh we can find