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 [...]
Tweet December’s ABC figures show nothing, but nothing but newspaper sales decline. Only one national title, buoyed by advertising campaign spend, managed a positive growth rate in the last four weeks of 2010. Here is the headline data in case you haven’t seen it (taken from Press Gazette’s table) but seeing as no one else [...]
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tweet What happens when your local newspaper leaves town? The people of Ashton-Under-Lyne in Greater Manchester found out 18 months ago when the Tameside Advertiser office (right) shut and its journalists were either sacked or moved seven miles west to Manchester city centre, home of the paper’s parent company MEN Media, now part of Trinity [...]
Tweet Journalists now invariably have to take part in web journalism and an increasing number of them only write for the web. But despite that, not all of them use hyperlinks - one of the main things that elevate digital journalism above and beyond its print counterpart by adding relevance, context, facts, proof and sometimes wit to an otherwise [...]
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Tweet Regional newspapers are either in – or just exiting – an economic crisis. The rules have changed, the ad revenue is disappearing to free online alternatives, news habits have changed and the audience is getting older. It shouldn’t be this hard, in theory: if the current thinking among intelligent journalists is that you need [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tweet The week’s big news in the media biz is Trinity Mirror’s audacious bid for Guardian Media Group’s GMG Regional Division – an eyebrow-raising throwback to the days when newspaper groups had lots of money and acquired rival groups’ titles on a more regular basis. This is what I make of it, but here’s a [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tweet The biggest deal in regional newspaper so far this decade, is all systems go. Confirming the completion of earlier talks (via PCUK), Trinity Mirror this morning announced it has bought GMG Regional from Guardian Media Group for £44.8 million. Here’s the release. The deal includes a £37.4 fee to cancel a long-term printing contract [...]
Tweet I’m a fan of Blunt, the pseudonymous author of the Playing the Game: Real Adventures in Journalism blog on life inside a regional newspaper. He (She?) consistently tells it like it is and gives a valuable glimpse into how the endless staff and resource cuts have affected papers’ quality. On the raping and pillaging [...]
