24 January 2010 – 10:24 pm
I guess as very much the new boy of the party, it’s rather beholden on me to add my thoughts regarding events of last Thursday and GMG’s Oxford Media Convention 2010.
And if the thoughts that follow initially appeared somewhat at odds and unconnected, apologies; I think there’s a link there somewhere.
Just.
Given the still-fledgling state of [...]
30 December 2009 – 6:20 pm
‘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 [...]
14 October 2009 – 11:01 am
It’s been a while. Apologies. Had jobs to do; people to see.
Suffice to say that last week was ‘one for the album’; but for the likes of ‘Mr Darcy’, AJ, Yvonne, Jas and everyone else on the ITU Dept at the N&N the Old Dear wouldn’t be propping herself up in bed this morning, reading [...]
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 [...]
Tis only Thursday; so Tuesday’s gathering of the great and the media good – and me – in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons is still relatively fresh in the mind.
Given it was all conducted on Chatham House rules and given my knowledge of licence fee slicing and switch-over surplusses is sketchy at [...]
21 January 2009 – 11:21 pm
As a tiny green shoot poking up in the shadow of some mighty – albeit swaying – broadcasting oaks, I’m always slightly fearful of wandering into the great ‘top-slice’ debate. Not exactly my ‘patch’.
But having once upon a time been shared a dinner table with OfCom at an invite-only do last summer and having now [...]
2 October 2008 – 12:52 pm
We’ve been round the block with the NUJ before. And I’m under few illusions as to the monumental challenges it faces in trying to protect the interests of its members – one of whom is my Mrs.
But at some stage it has to acknowledge that there are forces at work here that are wholly beyond [...]
25 September 2008 – 3:02 pm
Having a vague knowledge of OfCom’s latest review of the future of Public Service Broadcasting, this was always going to make for interesting reading…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/25/itv.ofcom
Even if the numbers are slightly eye-watering, there was a very real sense that this was in the wind. Like everyone else, ITV can’t make the numbers add up. Their world – [...]
20 September 2008 – 11:38 am
The idea of a ‘VIP’ club made its first appearance the other night; on the back of a comment left by James of Addiply ad and Towcester local news site fame… that and a few beers post an IPC gathering at the Tate.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=138
Scroll down to the comments; you got it… VIP.
Very Independent Publishers.
It may very [...]
Cards on the table first. I’m not an NUJ member.
My Mrs, however, is. And as a part-time sub-editor at Archant (Norfolk), given events at Archant (Suffolk) she – along with 100s of others across the UK and the US – is firmly on the endangered species list.
As, of course, are 65 souls across Trinity Mirror’s [...]