13 January 2010 – 7:57 pm
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 [...]
30 November 2009 – 9:33 pm
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 [...]
26 November 2009 – 11:46 pm
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 [...]
One of the bigger tragedies of any impending break-up of Press Gazette would be a loss of Peter Kirwan’s Media Money column.
For me – ever since we first hooked up at a UCLAN speaking gig and in the hotel bar thereafter – he has been something of a shining light; a regular hook upon which [...]
23 February 2009 – 2:20 pm
I suspect that in the ever-lengthening rap sheet we can lay at the door of ‘Fred The Shred’ and his fellow clowns at the Royal Bank of Scotland, this particular piece of news will get lost – after all, it’s not billions we’re talking here.
Just hundreds of millions. Of our money. Going down the proverbial [...]
11 February 2009 – 1:34 pm
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 [...]
1 February 2009 – 4:43 pm
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 [...]
24 January 2009 – 3:40 pm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3fc133bc-c0b1-11dc-b0b7-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
175?
Close.
Apologies. The winter vomit thing wound its merry way up Loddon High Street this Yule and left me more in the sh*te than usual.
So, we’ve been amiss in keeping OWAB ticking over.
Fortunately, however, this popped up recently from Alan Mutter; who along with the illustrious Mark Potts is one of our top boys across the [...]
11 December 2008 – 10:30 pm
[9pm follow up... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=192 ]
Where next… From Mr Potts…
“Sharing, clustering and consolidation. We’ve already seen competing newspapers starting to share resources, like the announcement that the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram will share arts critics, or the story-sharing among South Florida or North Carolina papers, or papers even printing and distributing their competitors.
[...]