Journalism

03.18.10

One tiny, little milesone on the streets of Lichfield this evening; perhaps we don’t all need to bow to our former masters, pay rent to our lords… Advertising, General, Journalism | (5)
It has always been the little victories that mean so much more around here. One happened tonight in the City of Lichfield. Here it is... http://thelichfieldblog.co.uk/2010/03/18/council-leader-concerned-by-plans-for-new-rail-line-through-lichfield/ You have to scroll down to see it. But it's the banner ad. For these boys... http://www.lichfieldpc.co.uk/ A computer shop in Lichfield. Run, I believe, by a lad called Nick Brickett. Who, I suspect, is a pal of Philip John, who helps run http://thelichfieldblog.co.uk/ In one sense, that's by the by. Because to my mind, for a lad who is flogging digital gear-stroke-PCs, it makes perfect sense to be placing brand 'lichfieldpc' in front of the 11,000-plus uniques that the ...
03.13.10

A belated welcome to MyFootballWriter ‘Lite’ and a few more lessons learned en route to over-throwing the bureaucrats. General, Journalism, MFW | (0)
Apologies in advance; there may be several strands of thinking afoot here that might not actually contribute to a coherent whole. Part of this post is designed to explain what we've done with www.myfootballwriter.com of late; part of it is designed to publicly thank both Neil Mason (@Neil_Mason) and Philip John (@PhilipJohn) for their invaluable role therein; and a part of it is designed to try and put our on-going experiences with MFW into a wider media setting as bureaucrats the world over continue to flounder... http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/05/24/at-what-point-in-schumpeter-time-does-newmarks-original-heresy-become-network-orthodoxy-in-the-bureaucrats-boardroom/ That remains a lovely line from Bill Thompson's pal Will Davies... 'He [Bill's friend, Will Davies..] points ...
01.13.10

As has been said before, events in the North-East make for compelling viewing this spring. Is the JP pay-wall about to succumb to the bigger picture in those wild and disputed border lands? Advertising, General, Journalism | (0)
It is not exactly rocket science to figure that we might have an interest in all things North-East this spring. As has been muttered before in these parts, there is much to keep an eye on in and around the valleys of Tyne, Tees and Wear. The arrival of the impressive-looking http://www.hohound.co.uk/ over the forthcoming days merely re-inforces the impression that there is much good a-foot in them there parts... much that is worthy of comment and inspection. http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/11/26/if-anyone-wants-to-know-where-the-future-of-the-uks-new-media-landscape-will-be-forged-and-decided-itll-be-in-the-north-east-of-england-starting-on-monday/ ... at which point Johnston Press were about to build a paywall around the Northumberland Gazette and test to see just how many folk thereabouts ...
01.08.10

Can we join the dots in Digital Britain; mine a small pot of gold at the end of the local rainbow? Well, maybe. Look above you… Advertising, General, Journalism | (6)
Keen observers of this particular blog - and we use the plural cautiously - may have noted a subtle change of late. We now boast a banner ad. Gone are the five Addiply text boxes that used to adorn the top of this page; never one to practice what he preaches, I'd been a bit tardy on the sales front... Now, however, we have a nice, new shiny banner sitting in their stead; one that promotes next week's Journalism.co.uk gig at City; ie a 'message' that - in theory - should be perfectly targetted for OutWithABang's decidedly niche audience. And it is gratis ...
01.04.10

If the world is, indeed, turning upside down then what was once our audience have Mr Jobs to thank for creating ‘a common treasury for all…’ General, Journalism | (0)
This was interesting; kind of made me wish I'd made more of an effort to hook up with Paul Carr before Christmas... http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/nsfw-apple-tablet-kindle-and-furbies-oh-my/ As was this; from the ever-illuminating Mark Potts... http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2010/01/apples-tabula-rasa.html Both men are clearly singing off the say hymn-sheet... Or rather, tablet. Of slate, apparently. Why both posts appealed isn't too hard to fathom; particularly if we return to this idea that there is a revolution afoot the like of which we haven't seen since 1649 when the Diggers came to town... http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/12/30/as-2010-looms-perhaps-we-need-to-party-like-its-1649-not-1499-and-to-recognise-that-maybe-the-world-is-indeed-turning-upside-down/ Because if you return to Christopher Hill's work and re-read his introduction - written, remember, in 1972 - there is a line ...
12.30.09

As 2010 looms, perhaps we need to party like its 1649… not 1499. And to recognise that, maybe, the world is indeed turning upside down General, Journalism | (2)
'In 1649 To St George's Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers Come to show the people's will They defied the landlords They defied the law They were the dispossessed Reclaiming what was theirs 'We come in peace' they said 'To dig and sow We come to work the land in common And to make the waste land grow This earth divided We will make whole So it can be A common treasury for all 'The sin of property We do disdain No one has any right to buy and sell The earth for private gain By theft and murder They took the land Now everywhere the walls Rise up at their command... 'The World Turned Upside Down' Billy Bragg Words by Leon Rosselson. On January ...
12.26.09

An open letter to the Media Acquisition Dept, Royal Bank Of Scotland: Case of bonus first, brain second people…? General, Journalism | (0)
Given the festive season is now firmly upon us, maybe it's time for a Xmas teaser. OK... what have the four following posts got in common? i) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44765&c=1 ii) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44792&c=1 iii) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/scottish-giant-johnston-press-close-to-refinancing-163500m-debt-1776020.html and iv) http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/02/23/chapter-11-now-filed-in-the-story-of-fred-the-shred-brian-p-tierney-and-philly-media-kiss-good-bye-to-more-of-our-millions-folks/ And the answer is...? The Royal Bank of Scotland. Us, in other words. The poor, down-trodden UK tax-payer who has been left to mop up in the wake of Fred the Shred and the Boys and upon whom the future fortunes of everyone from GMG, to Johnston, to Archant to our old friend in Philly - that chancer-cum-charmer Brian P Tierney - now appear to rest. Of course, as that media sage Pete ...
12.09.09

The trick is to understand ‘local’. Right now, some of us get it; some of us don’t. Matt Kelly does; LongStreet1980 doesn’t. General, Journalism | (0)
In amidst all the noise and thunder that surrounds Murdoch's epic struggle to get Google's nose out of his trough, this post from the WAN gathering in India last week got rather less attention than, IMHO, it deserved. It also found me, briefly, sticking little pins into LongShanks1980 for revealing a little trait that is becoming more and more apparent of late; this great divide between the way that the London mediarrati (?) view the world and the way that, say, Mike Rawlins at PitsNPots.co.uk might. It is a walk that Sarah Hartley walked the other week... and with considerable aplomb to ...
11.30.09

As I look at the new pay-wall that Johnston have erected around the Northumberland Gazette, you do begin to wonder… Advertising, General, Journalism | (4)
As one or two of you might know, we have developed something of an interest of late in events in Northumberland. There is, after all, a chance that the initial contours of the UK's new media landscape might be drawn out in the rolling vales beneath Hadrian's Wall... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=331 Today and Johnston Press boldly went where few weekly publishers have gone before by erecting a new wall around the 'Premium Content' contained within the Northumberland Gazette; from now on you will have to pay £5 a quarter to access the 'inside pages' of the Gazette. http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/sectionhome.aspx?sectionID=1117 And, sure enough, click on the canoeist and the ...
11.26.09

If anyone wants to know where the future of the UK’s new media landscape will be forged and decided, it’ll be in the North-East of England. Starting on Monday. Advertising, General, Journalism | (3)
Whether by accident or design, the North-East of England is a very interesting place to be now media-wise. That particular penny has taken a little while to drop, but events of the last 36 hours have only strengthened my feeling that over the course of the next 6-9 months, Newcastle, Sunderland and the great English-Scottish borderlands to the north are the place to be... the area to which many an eye will turn come the spring. Why? Well, first there is the Northumberland Gazette which is to be one of six JP weekly newspapers to disappear behind a pay-wall come next Monday... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/nov/25/johnston-press-charging-for-content That will ...

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