26 December 2009 – 2:20 pm
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 [...]
22 September 2009 – 5:28 pm
As news emerged today that three more weekly titles were off to meet their maker…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/22/trinity-mirror-weekly-closures
.. it was re-assuring to discover that OfCom were there to be found with their finger precisely on the beating pulse of this regional media nation of ours…
This is a particularly fascinating and insightful document… one to be pondered at length [...]
If it’s a fight for the very soul of provincial journalism you’re after, then I suggest we look no further than the streets and suburbs of Greater Manchester.
It’s there in streets of Stockport, Didsbury, Wilmslow and Hale that two tribes are going to war – the NUJ summoning up the spirit of the Scott Trust [...]
I’ve long been a fan of Pete Kirwan; we did good beers together when we found ourselves on the same panel at UCLAN last year.
And so for those in need of a sobering read this morning, I can only commend this to you.
Albeit with a heavy heart and a sinking feeling for all concerned. My [...]
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 [...]
4 November 2008 – 6:38 pm
Here we go again… round the same block… this time it’s Carolyn McCall from GMG and Sly Bailey from Trinity giving anything in a BBC blazer a good kicking… this time in front of another select committee…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/bbc-pressandpublishing
Without repeating ourselves over and over again, McCall’s ‘get off our lawn…’ speech was interesting.
Because she’s quite right; in [...]