Yesterday I posted about how news wouldn’t be the selling point for the new-look Evening Standard, unless perhaps it was a real engagement with local news. Obviously, Recovering Journalist Mark Potts takes a much more incisive and in-depth look at such issues – and his latest post is particularly relevant. In it he suggests local […]
Like many Londoners – or at least near-Londoners – I picked up a gratis copy of the Evening Standard (now rebranded the London Evening Standard) out of curiosity about how it could reinvent itself as a viable paid-for paper in a world where people [a] get their news for free, and up to date, from TV, […]
I poked fun at my local Surrey & Hants News recently for its slightly random headlines, but sometimes local papers get it just right. This one made me smile – it’s punning and jokey, but tells you all you really need to know…
Interesting piece on Journalism.co.uk on the FIPP World Magazine Congress. Condé Nast International chairman (or CEO, depending on which story or paragraph you read) Jonathan Newhouse believes print has a bright future. “To those who believe that paper and print will disappear, I’ve only one word to pronounce – nonsense,” said Newhouse. It is true […]
I posted earlier about my run-in with the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent. I had commented on a blog post by professor Tim Luckhurst on the need for journalists (particularly students) always to use the phone and nothing but the phone when sourcing stories. In the comments to his blog, I argued his underlying […]
Out of curiosity, I just went back to Technorati for the first time, probably, since I registered there. Kind of gratifyingly, I find I am now ranked at 2,476,024 in the universe of blogs. Well, in the universe of Technorati-registered or otherwise noted blogs. I don’t actually know the difference, strictly speaking. Eagle-eyed readers with a […]
This fascinating piece in Slate from early this year describes how newspaper publishers were actually ahead of the curve when it came to trying to handle the impact of digital media. One publisher, Knight Ridder, even tried out its own digital distribution service in 1980, though you had to buy a pricey digital terminal to […]
Sad news from Condé Nast as it closes Portfolio magazine. I discovered Portfolio late last year when I stumbled on a dissection of the Wall Street collapse by Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis. It was riveting and very well written – as you would expect, I guess. The reason for the closure seems to be plummeting ad […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; At last, the end of the journey and a handy summary. But first, Recovering Journalist Mark Potts has a very good post on Life After Journalism that is really worth reading. A former 20-year journalist (hmm – like me), Mark Potts is now “an entrepreneur and […]
I just got into an interesting spat with Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism. Apparently he thinks only the phone is good enough for journalists to use to chase up stories. For contact with interviewees or sources of information the telephone is ALWAYS the right way to make the first […]