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We will not pretend to cover every story. We shall certainly avoid chasing after what has been done elsewhere. Instead we shall focus on the areas of our writers’ expertise, freed from any diktats from the Editor’s chair. And instead of following the pack we will seek out our own path. Our purpose is to provide in-depth and unique coverage of specific areas of Scottish life. Our print edition will not be daily or weekly and will celebrate the debate we hope our writing provokes.
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Two column frontpage makes standard 4 or 5 local paper template look silly.
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Do video games cause ricketts? Newspapers say yes. But why not ask the scientists that did the study: “No we really didn’t do a study to show that, or say that Gaming causes rickets. It was a classic piece of dodgy lazy journalism, taking 3 words out of PA’s hyped-up version of our press release.”
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interesting that there’s still this semantic divide between ‘news’ and ‘blogging’. I’m not sure the two things are all that different – it’s that print-obsessed traditional local paper ‘news’ style that’s dragging down the regional press.
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Monetisation of Twitter – it’s well underway.
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Whealie has a point: “I work from 6am weekdays and I may be working evenings and weekends. The web is seven days a week and often 24 hours a day. To news organisations and the journalists who report for them, there isn’t actually an out-of-hours time anymore.”
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Hi Patrick. I’m not sure it’s because there’s a difference between blogging and news, so much as because so much of regional press content is – understandably – written for print first. I think it’s much better to evolve from that position, rather than try and operate in parallel or, as I’ve seen some papers try, dress their print content up as blogs – eg columnists and so on.
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