OutWithABang celebrates its first birthday on Monday; we threw our very first pebble into this deep and dark pond of ours on March 16th, 2008 – two nights after me, Paul and Tim all heard we’d been bombed in the Knight News Challenge. Beaten by some bloke called Berners-Lee.
I mean, for f*ck’s sake, what did [...]
As the penny appears to be finally dropping that the world doesn’t do mid-range news – just global and hyper-local…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=56
… so The New York Times has today thrown its own hat into this particular ring; or decided to try and launch its own little life-raft into these freezing waters of ours.
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/
They are, of course, just [...]
Many, many moons ago – long before OWAB was born and whilst we still had one eye on the KnightNews Challenge funding our MyLocalWriter.com dreams – I took a deep breath and pinged over an email to Mr A Rushbridger of The Guardian fame.
As a one-time reporter on the Cambridge Evening News, I kind of [...]
3 February 2009 – 4:05 pm
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 [...]
29 January 2009 – 6:42 pm
Want to know what a www.mylocalwriter.com/norwich/nr2 story would look like?
It would be the all Videoboo-ing, all Audioboo-ing, backchat-ing version of this…
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=NewsSplash&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=NOED29%20Jan%202009%2016%3A29%3A50%3A770
Slap bang in the heart of that postcode ‘patch’, Tesco versus the Unthank Road locals – and the threat that the supermarket giant brings to the delis, the butchers, the florist and the fish shop [...]
29 January 2009 – 3:59 pm
The much-trailed ‘Digital Britain’ report thumps on everyone’s desk tomorrow and from the snippets that are already emerging it looks like the Government have decided that the future of local news provision lies in the hands of TrinityMirror, Newsquest, Johnston, etc…
Cos it ain’t going to be ITV. And it can’t only be the BBC. But [...]
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 [...]