Where’s Boorman’s coat?

Posted by Martin Stabe on 12 April 2006 at 15:19
Tags: Journalism, Kent Messenger

Edwin Boorman appears to have picked up a fellow passenger’s overcoat when he alighted at Staplehurt on the train from London on Monday.

Luckily the president of the Kent Messenger Group president has a newspaper to advertise for a coat-swap.

This week in Press Gazette

Posted by Martin Stabe on 23 February 2006 at 13:14
Tags: Awards, BBC, Economist, Five, Kent Messenger, Magazines, News of the World, Newspapers, Northcliffe, Online, Relaunches

This week’s Press Gazette magazine is out now. Some highlights:

• BBC News 24 have just won News Channel of the Year from Royal Television Society Journalism Awards — and that’s before the Beeb added high-profile presenters Huw Edwards, Emily Maitlis, and Ben Brown to the rolling news channel’s presenting team.
• The News of the World is still in the running to defend its title as Newspaper of the Year, but is losing its picture editor.
• “Relaunch man” Roger Borrell questions the value of relaunches.
• Former lads’ mags editor James Brown talks about newspapers, publishing and being single.
• Northcliffe journalists are still on a knife edge after Dail Mail and General Trust pulled the plug on the proposed sale of the regional group.
• The Kent Messenger launches a video bulletin on its web site.
• The European Commission plans to set up its own television station because it is unhappy with TV coverage of European issues and .
• A journalist may be crucified as part of a documentary he is making to rediscover his faith.
• Bill Emmott talks to us after resigning as editor of the Economist.

The ABC consumer magazine circulation figures are out. We have all the stories about How free titles, including supermarket magazines dominate the top of the consumer circulation league tables, plus the state of competition among current affairs magazines, home magazines, “real life” magazines, listings titles, celebrity magazines, teen mags, music rags, lads’ mags and the glossies.