Much excitement and pontification has greeted the surprise news that the London Evening Standard is going to become a freesheet and double its print run in 10 days’ time. So what the hell, why not add to it… One thing that has surprised me is that there hasn’t been an immediate announcement that the London […]
So – spending on online advertising has just outstripped spending on TV advertising in the UK. Figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (one of the most irritating company names in consultancy, by the way), show online advertising now makes up 23.5% of UK ad spend, as opposed to TV’s 21.9%. TV has been top dog for half a […]
Bit mixed really, it seems, if our poll results are to be believed. In the end the votes were split pretty evenly among my slightly unscientific poll questions. Here they are: How’s your media recession? Fine, thanks. I have plenty of work (21%) It was a bit rough 9 months ago, but things have picked […]
I posted a while ago about the graduate journalism show at UCA in Farnham. I was impressed by several of the final year projects, and mentioned the F1-focused piece by Adam Leveridge. As it happens, a little while after the show Adam landed a nice internship with a web content company called Adfero. It’s the […]
This week sees the undergraduate journalism timetable crank back into gear – and this year I’m getting more involved. As luck would have it, I get to be lead tutor on a second-year online journalism unit at UCA, and I’m also having quite a bit of input into the third-year unit. The big change has […]
I think one or two votes have trickled in over the past week or so, but it’s pretty much time to wind up my informal recession poll. I’m going to take it down on Wednesday night – at the end of the month. If anyone fancies adding their tuppenyworth before then, please do. I’ll pontificate […]
I have been asking readers about how their media recession has been going. From the Big Apple, NYBlues writes in (anonymously, so I can’t link, but he or she does exist) to sketch the ghastly reality of media life across the Atlantic. Not sure about UK market, but over here all that’s left are specializations which are […]
For some reason the poll on the right has lost its questions – at least in Safari. No idea why – maybe it’s a WordPress glitch. I planned to keep it running to the end of the month, but if I can’t get it fixed I’ll have to close it early… UPDATE: Must just have […]
Moving to my own hosting space and unleashing me on the world of WordPress has been a bit like letting a small, excitable dog loose in a butcher’s shop. For my world is suddenly chock full of plugins. Plugins to do virtually everything, it seems, bar the washing up. (And I understand someone somewhere is […]