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• 01.13.10
  As has been said before, events in the North-East make for compelling viewing this spring. Is the JP pay-wall about to succumb to the bigger picture in those wild and disputed border lands? Advertising, General, Journalism | (0)

  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 re-inforces the impression that there is much good a-foot in them there parts... much that is worthy of comment and inspection. http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/11/26/if-anyone-wants-to-know-where-the-future-of-the-uks-new-media-landscape-will-be-forged-and-decided-itll-be-in-the-north-east-of-england-starting-on-monday/ ... at which point Johnston Press were about to build a paywall around the Northumberland Gazette and test to see just how many folk thereabouts ...

  Tagged: addiply.com, Johnston Press, Newsquest, SR2blog.com, Ten Alps, TrinityMirror
  
• 11.26.09
  If anyone wants to know where the future of the UK’s new media landscape will be forged and decided, it’ll be in the North-East of England. Starting on Monday. Advertising, General, Journalism | (3)

  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 to the north are the place to be... the area to which many an eye will turn come the spring. Why? Well, first there is the Northumberland Gazette which is to be one of six JP weekly newspapers to disappear behind a pay-wall come next Monday... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/nov/25/johnston-press-charging-for-content That will ...

  Tagged: Addiply, Google, Johnston Press, Ten Alps, TrinityMirror
  

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