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Category Archives: BriefingMedia

Our new office and the importance of location in business

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tweet When I’m out and about and chatting to people I get two questions: who do you work for?, shortly followed by where is your office? The eternal obsession with the physical location of businesses has not receded with the digital age. Much like how my six-year-old cousin likes to ask everyone “where do you [...]

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Investigating the economics of local newspapers

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Tweet There is a grim certainty that the existence of local and regional newspapers are under threat in the UK and other developed economies. There are no shortage of articles from commentators saying this is generally a bad thing. Northcliffe’s East Kent Gazette is the latest in a long line of closures. But what are [...]

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What Spinal Tap can tell you about product management

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tweet One thing they certainly don’t teach in journalism schools is digital product management. But it’s one of the things that people who came through print publishing careers into the online world are increasingly being asked to get to grips with. Working on TheMediaBriefing.com has certainly been a learning curve – we’re working now with [...]

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Powerpoint, coffee and business cards: Media conference season gets underway

Monday, May 23, 2011

Tweet It’s that time of year when media hacks get up early, head to a hotel, drink too much coffee and find out what the future of the industry is. There are a few really good ones coming up – including the next from TheMediaBriefing.com – and I thought I’d mention them in the hope [...]

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We’re hiring: TheMediaBriefing is growing, do you want to join?

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Tweet We’ve got the beginnings of a successful business… we just need more people. I’m looking for a very bright digital journalist/assistant to join TheMediaBriefing – which I edit – and help us grow the site and the brand. We’re bringing in some very exciting changes soon and we’ve got a programme of reports and [...]

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Busy times: TheMediaBriefing, conferences and student blogging advice

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Tweet Hello there. Yes, it’s been a while, but I’ve been busy. TheMediaBriefing is taking up a lot of time and as I wrote here before it’s a very exciting project we’re building from the ground up. I intend to write more here about some of the interesting things we’re doing with content and technology, [...]

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Say hello to TheMediaBriefing.com: a new algorithm publishing model for the media industry

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Tweet I’ve been rather quiet in recent weeks and with good cause: I’ve been helping to build a new digital media business, Briefing Media Ltd, and its first site www.themediabriefing.com, which goes live today (Tuesday). I’m the editor and chief analyst – a title which when explained, does make sense – and I’m really excited [...]

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