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 [...]
17 November 2009 – 6:48 pm
I’ve never met Jason C Fry. Quite like to; think me and him could have a ball.
http://reinventingthenewsroom.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/this-is-broken-from-game-stories-to-well-everything/
I have met Nigel Barlow on a couple of occasions; I was slightly non-plussed to discover that, in his eyes, I was the ‘Godfather of Hyper-Local’; particularly given the fact that in oh-so many ways, we ain’t done anything [...]
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 [...]
It would be nice to think that certain people – when asked to appear before a House Of Commons select committee on the future of local media – arrived knowing what they were talking about.
Claire Enders is clearly not one of them.
She hasn’t done her homework.
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-dcms-select-cttee-hearing-draft/
Now, some of what she says is clearly very true. [...]
For a fair while now, I’ve kind of worked on the basis that this web world of ours will go one of two ways… you’ll either be hyper-national a la The Telegraph, The Guardian, et al…
… or you’ll be hyper-local. A la Linda at www.darwenreporter.com And James at www.towcesternews.co.uk
And there won’t be too much left [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
18 October 2008 – 4:26 pm
This is interesting; and not for the usual reasons.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/532538.php
Or maybe it is – to find someone of Ms Bell’s long-standing, new media repute using the terms she does. It’s the tone that gives the game away; the urgency with she uses some fairly desperate language.
‘In the UK media, Bell said she could see five national [...]
6 September 2008 – 3:28 pm
It just so happened that this weekend we were stopping with my best mate, a good Oldham lad. Or Shaw, if we want to be more precise.
Either way, he knows his Greater Manchester suburbia better than me; that said, in 16 years of following Norwich City Football Club the length and breadth of the country, [...]