Posted by
Paul McNally
on 10 October 2008 at 17:05
Tags: Regional Newspapers
Regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe has appointed Keith Pirch to the new role of digital development director.
Perch is a former managing director of Associated Northcliffe Digital’s publishing division. One of his first jobs will be to oversee the the next phase in the development of Northcliffe’s ‘thisis’ sites.
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 10 October 2008 at 15:12
Tags: Journalism
Under the heading ‘A feather in their cappuccinos’ the Guardian’s Media Monkey devotes 200 words to The Sun’s splendid Starbucks exclusive, which outed one of the world’s biggest ’sustainable’ brands for wasting 23 million litres of water a day by leaving taps running in its shops.
Elsewhere on the site, Professor Greenslade called the story (actually phoned in [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 10 October 2008 at 14:44
Tags: Journalism
A reporter called Oliver Luft has got all excited about that famous Sunday Express memo berating hacks for sloppiness and has whacked a story up on the Media Guardian site.
Is it not equally sloppy, though, to fail miserably to point out the source of the leaked memo - i.e. my October Press Gazette column and this blog, where the memo has been [...]
Posted by Peter Kirwan on 10 October 2008 at 13:29
Tags: Journalism
Following my post yesterday on the melting down of web 2.0. . .
Here’s the FT’s Kenneth Li on how executives at US media companies are receiving “increasing numbers of pleas from entrepreneurs seeking funding or outright purchases, as once-plentiful capital dries up for those seeking a second or third round of investments”.
Li quotes one executive [...]
Posted by Peter Kirwan on 10 October 2008 at 13:09
Tags: Journalism
Another massive downward lurch on the markets today. Partly caused by technical issues relating to the liquidation of Lehman Brothers.
And partly caused by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Daily Mail is calling it Freefall Friday. In the media, everything has taken a hammering — except, oddly, Johnston Press.
DMGT: Down 6.7% at 304.5p
Trinity Mirror: [...]
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 10 October 2008 at 09:58
Tags: Journalism
A campaigning freelance journalist has presented a 70-page dossier of evidence to the government’s low pay commission claiming many news groups are breaking the rules by using unpaid work experience people for what should be paid casual work.
Mark Turner said he had found a number of job ads for unpaid full-time positions in roles that should be paid - such as that of editorial assistant on a title.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 October 2008 at 09:30
Tags: Journalism
Former Tory leader Michael Howard has called for the Financial Services Authority to investigate how BBC business editor Robert Peston obtained details of secret talks on Monday night between bank bosses and Chancellor Alastair Darling.
By being a good journalist, some might argue. (more…)
Posted by Axegrinder on 10 October 2008 at 09:21
Tags: Journalism
In his Daily Mirror column on Thursday, Brian Reade rightly laments that the media gave plenty of coverage to Sir Trevor McDonald’s decision to stand down from his job at ITN but barely mentioned the sacking of 429 journalists – “unsung grafters who gather the news” – at ITV’s regional operation.
“This is how screwed up [...]
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 10 October 2008 at 09:00
Tags: Magazines
American magazine giant Time Inc has quashed rumours that it is looking to offload its UK arm, IPC Media, which it bought for £1.1bn in October 2001.
In an interview with the Times, Time Inc chief executive Ann Moore praised the work of IPC chief executive Sylvia Auton, adding: “We are very pleased – three out of her last four launches have been hits.”
The group has also warned that it looks set to miss its digital revenue growth target of 53 per cent for 2008 - with print advertising also taking a hit, down nine per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2008.
Digital revenue - which makes up about 15 per cent of Time Inc’s total turnover - rose 73 per cent last year.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 October 2008 at 08:50
Tags: National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Sun has claimed a victory in its campaign to persuade Starbucks to stop keeping a tap running all day in its coffee shops in order to clean its spoons. The practice was wasting 23 million litres of water a day, the Sun reports.
The coffee giant’s 698 UK stores are now going to clean their spoons with a burst of hot water from the espresso machine, and shops worldwide are set to follow suit.
On a different, coffee related note - it’s worth picking up The Guardian today for its free Starbucks coffee promotion - this correspondent is currently enjoying a free large soya milk latte, normal price £3.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 10 October 2008 at 08:41
Tags: Journalism, New Media, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Trinity Mirror has launched an interactive guide to the North East after launching a competition for new ideas from staff.
Wikinortheast.co.uk draws on 12 years of online archives from Trinity titles in the area, reports Holdthefrontpage. It also allows readers to create and edit their own content - drawing on the idea behind the hugely successful Wikipedia website.
Trinity Mirror web developer Louise Midgley, 28, was behind the project and has received a cash prize and will also receive a cut from any profits the site makes.
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 10 October 2008 at 08:23
Tags: Broadcast, Television
BBC political journalist Jonathan Dimleby has defended the BBC following claims made by Jeremy Paxman that it “fawns” over the Royal family.
Paxman will make the criticisms in an edition of Radio 4’s Archive Hour tomorrow evening - which is looking at the historic relationship between the BBC and the monarchy.
Dimbleby told MediaGuardian.co.uk: “I think it gets the balance broadly right. It is an important job to scrutinise institutions like the monarchy.”
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 10 October 2008 at 08:07
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines
The weekly B2B magazine for police officers, Jane’s Police Review, has celebrated the publication of its 6,000th issue this morning.
The title, which launched in 1893 as The Police Review, said it had not missed a single issue - despite a 1996 IRA bombing that destroyed the building in London’s Docklands that housed the title.
Jonathan Shephard, chief executive of the Periodical Publishers Association, said: “Any title that started in the 19th century and is still flourishing in the 21st century must have shown real must-have value, together with a remarkable ability to adapt.”
Currently edited by Chris Herbert, the magazine is owned by Jane’s Information Group - the specialist military and maritime B2B publisher.
Posted by Axegrinder on 10 October 2008 at 01:30
Tags: Journalism
For a brief moment on Thursday it appeared that Sir Paul McCartney had kissed and made up with his former publicist, Geoff Baker, whom he fired back in 2004.
The Sun ran a story by Ben Ashford about vegetarian Macca allegedly blasting McDonald’s “after accusing them of using his picture to flog hamburgers”.
The piece attributed the [...]
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 9 October 2008 at 17:04
Tags: Regional Newspapers
Online’s share of classified advertising spend looks set to overtake regional newspapers next year, according to a new report by Enders Analysis published today.
Last year, classifieds accounted for 26 per cent of total ad spend (£4.8bn). Enders predicts that could be £4.2bn by late 2008 and £3.7bn next year.
“In our view, advertisers are accelerating their shift online as a result of the economic downturn, while the property market’s steep decline depresses associated classifieds,” the report said.
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 9 October 2008 at 15:11
Tags: National Newspapers, Photography
Tributes have been paid to the award-winning Fleet Street photographer Terry Fincher, who died of a liver tumour on Monday at the age of 77.
Fincher’s photos regularly appeared in the Daily Express, spanning everything from the Vietnam war to royalty and showbiz. He won the British Press Photographer of the Year award four times between 1957 and 1967. (Guardian obit / Times obit)
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 9 October 2008 at 14:54
Tags: Agencies
The National Media Museum in Bradford is to stage a special exhibition later this month to celebrate 140 years of the Press Association.
The exhibition, which opens on 18 October, aims to give visitors an insight into how news agencies work, using interactive exhibits and archive photos and video.
PA editor Jonathan Grun said: “In the years ahead, no doubt technology will change and make today’s state-of-the-art systems seem as primitive as cave painting.”
Posted by Peter Kirwan on 9 October 2008 at 12:34
Tags: Journalism
The recession will have some positive side effects for Big Media. Among them: a massive cull of the tech-flavoured start-ups that aimed to siphon off a large portion of the media’s advertising revenues.
Already, it’s becoming obvious that the business models underpinning social media and user-generated content are in big, big trouble.
Funding is drying up. The [...]
Posted by Peter Kirwan on 9 October 2008 at 11:10
Tags: Journalism
All sorts of nasty stuff is coming out of the woodwork. Take the otherwise obscure report on shared national credits from US bank regulators, which was published yesterday.
This is an annual exercise designed to give a snapshot of the US market for big corporate loans (specificially: loans of $20m or more given to companies by [...]
Posted by
Paul McNally
on 9 October 2008 at 10:59
Tags: Magazines, Online
The founder of US blog network Gawker Media, Nick Denton, has raised doubts about how successful veteran magazine editor Tina Brown’s new web venture, The Daily Beast, will become.
Denton told the International Herald Tribune he felt the site, unveiled this week, was too cluttered and “has to be simpler to work”, and added: “I’ll definitely read [it], but I don’t think there are that many of me.”
The Daily Beast went live on Monday. One of its first exclusives was an interview with actress and singer Jennifer Lopez, which was reported to have been spiked by a magazine.
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