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 [...]
7 September 2009 – 9:51 am
I must work on a new intro, but this is interesting…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44242&c=1
Not the fact that NewsQuest is now heading into the world we tend to call ‘hyper-local’. Every man and his NYT dog is now looking for a hyper-local ‘Patch’ to call their own.
No, what’s interesting is the range of new ’skills’ that NewsQuest appear intent [...]
The efforts of the Brighton Evening Argus’ KempTown correspondent to lead us all into a new media age have long won support in this neck of the woods.
There has been more than a whiff of revolution in his nostrils for a little while now…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=245
But more than that, he’s now walking the walk as well as [...]
Having been round one or two of these blocks before, it’s always been interesting to see which of the large provincial newspaper groups would be the first to ‘break ranks…’ and quietly forget the gentlemen’s agreements upon which their industrial fortunes were based…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=257
And today, there’s a little sign that Northcliffe/DMGT are starting to get itchy [...]
There is, as ever, much to admire in Roy’s latest piece about the state of this local newspaper nation of ours.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/mar/27/local-newspapers-trinity-mirror?commentpage=1&commentposted=1
That their distribution model, for example, is busted beyond repair.
‘…the publishers cannot seem to admit to themselves (understandably, given the logic of the economic system they serve) that the business model of newspapers is busted [...]
22 January 2009 – 2:38 pm
You learn something new every day. Like what on earth ‘antithetical’ means.
Have to admit at first I thought it was a typo in Laura’s piece…
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/533270.php
But now I know. It means ‘opposite’; ‘being in diametrical opposition…’
It also means saying ‘No!’ to a state subsidy for the UK’s ailing provincial newspaper industry.
Which comes as a certain [...]
21 January 2009 – 12:17 am
We’ve trailed this before, but it was fascinating to read the arguments being trotted out this afternoon as to why the State must intervene to save our ailing provincial newspaper industry – or rather the US’s ailing newspaper industry in the case of any Newsquest title…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42868&c=1
And there was Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland’s finest, Ashok [...]
19 January 2009 – 6:34 pm
Here comes another one. North of the border this time as the vexed state of the indigenous Scottish newspaper industrty continues to cause concern.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=184
Anyone would have thought that there was a concerted campaign afoot. But, anyway, here’s to a near-bankrupt UK Plc subsidising Gannett (Glasgow)…
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/533216.php
What makes this one particularly sweet is this glorious line from [...]
16 January 2009 – 12:49 am
It didn’t take too long, did it?
About two weeks into the new year and some tame MP is sent into the House with his cap in hand.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42828&c=1
It’s one block we’ve trod all-too many times before.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=196
OK, so it’s not the Newspaper Society with the hand out; but it might just as well be. He’s talking their [...]