Posted by Grey Cardigan on 3 December 2008 at 18:07
Tags: Journalism
A day after the appointment of Donald Martin as editor-in-chief of Newsquest’s Glasgow titles, all but a handful of editorial staff have been handed redundancy notices and told to re-apply for jobs in a new, merged, multimedia newsroom.
Apparently Newsquest Glasgow managing director Tim Blott said the need for these changes was made “more urgent” by [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 3 December 2008 at 13:17
Tags: Journalism
Piers Morgan’s piss-poor sports column in the Mail on Sunday has all the intellectual rigour of a GMTV phone-in quiz.
Perhaps that’s why, in a toddler-style tantrum after his ‘beloved’ Arsenal’s defeat by Manchester City, he called for the head of manager Arsene Wenger - the same manager who has brought the club countless trophies in [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 3 December 2008 at 13:17
Tags: Journalism
Piers Morgan’s piss-poor sports column in the Mail on Sunday has all the intellectual rigour of a GMTV phone-in quiz.
Perhaps that’s why, in a toddler-style tantrum after his ‘beloved’ Arsenal’s defeat by Manchester City, he called for the head of manager Arsene Wenger - the same manager who has brought the club countless trophies in [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 2 December 2008 at 18:07
Tags: Journalism
This is an abbreviated version of the Grey Cardigan column that appears in the December issue of Press Gazette magazine. For the full version of the column, subscribe now by going to the home page.
IT’S BEEN a funny old month at the Evening Beast. Our dear editor and deputy, Crystal Tits and Alistair, appear to be [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 29 November 2008 at 11:02
Tags: Journalism
It doesn’t happen very often in these days of one-edition, overnight newspapers, but nothing on earth matches the buzz of re-jigging pages against the clock to accommodatea big breaking story. And woe betide the management flunky or tetchy printer who gets in the way during those precious minutes.
It’s a bit different though when the interfering [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 26 November 2008 at 17:20
Tags: Journalism
In these extraordinary times, I suppose we should expect the unthinkable: that within a few weeks we will have a daily regional newspaper without its own dedicated editor.
That will be the situation in York, where Press editor Kevin Booth, weekly editor Chris Buxton and managing director Steve Hughes have been made redundant and must now [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 22 November 2008 at 13:48
Tags: Journalism
Those nasty internet bloggers have been upsetting our old friend Tanya ‘Big Foot’ Gold. Writing in today’s Daily Mail, in a lengthy essay defending fat people, Tanya - 4ft 11in, size 16 and 14 stones - complains that one feminist website calls her “Fat Tan” and refers unkindly to her “hauling her vast arse out speed [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 21 November 2008 at 21:46
Tags: Journalism
The Daily Mail is pushing its latest DVD giveaway series - The Chronicles of Narnia - with a page one flash declaring it “The perfect stocking filler”.
Are they really suggesting that the grasping children of the middle classes, used to ponies and computer games, will be satisfied on Christmas morning with gifts that came free in [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 19 November 2008 at 19:17
Tags: Journalism
So Trinity Mirror, despite sacking 1,200 staff and still making decent profits, have imposed a pay freeze on the few remaining poor sods manning their newsrooms?
Stand back as the rest of the big regional groups gallop to follow suit. These greedy fools are wrecking our industry and inflicting misery on thousands of loyal employees, and all [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 19 November 2008 at 15:34
Tags: Journalism
A couple of months ago I mentioned the new internet-based phone system installed at the Evening Beast, remarking that it was sure to break down and we wouldn’t even be able to call IT for help.
How art mirrors life. I am told that Newsquest offfices on the Wirral and in Warrington lost their similar telephone system yesterday [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 5 November 2008 at 22:46
Tags: Journalism
Never let it be said that The Sun goes easy on those cheese-eating surrender monkeys from across the Channel.
Today’s story about an agency worker who was asked to remove her poppy while working on a Dior perfume counter in the new Westfield mall contains a par of essential context: “During the Second World War, French fashion designer [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 31 October 2008 at 18:39
Tags: Journalism
This is an abbreviated version of the Grey Cardigan column that appeared in the October issue of Press Gazette magazine. For the full version of November’s column, subscribe now by going to the home page.
IN TIMES of trouble, it’s always best to seek out the advice of the people who really know what’s happening in [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 31 October 2008 at 13:26
Tags: Journalism
I could blather on all day about the rights and wrongs of Manuelgate, but I think this picture, from the excellent B3TA website, probably says it all.
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 28 October 2008 at 21:34
Tags: Journalism
The Liverpool Echo has relaunched its print edition with a new emphasis on being positive and telling readers the truth. (One might wonder what the fuck they’ve been doing for the past 130 years, but there we go.)
According to a statement, “following extensive reader research”, two assistant editors have been given the job of making sure that the Echo [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 26 October 2008 at 11:54
Tags: Journalism
According to the heading in the once-mighty Thunderer, Lord Mandelson and Oleg Deripaska dined together ‘a year before they met’.
How did they manage that then? I know that all sorts of black arts are attributed to the Baron of Hartlepool, but the ability to travel through time wasn’t thought to be one of them … unless the [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 22 October 2008 at 22:39
Tags: Journalism
I sometimes feel that my only role in blogging life is to take the piss out of The Guardian (and the undischarged debtor Piers Morgan, of course). It’s not deliberate; it’s just that the newspaper, its contributors and its website offer up such a rich vein of material every day that it’s difficult to resist.
Take [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 21 October 2008 at 21:51
Tags: Journalism
It won’t surprise you to learn that I don’t think that subs get enough credit for their sterling work, so let’s take a minute to celebrate a belting heading on today’s Daily Mail column by Des Kelly, which ruminated on the curiously stilted reaction of the British people to the success stories of Lewis Hamilton and Andy [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 18 October 2008 at 10:59
Tags: Journalism
Apologies for not posting for a while but it’s been a week of leaving dos, with half a dozen loyal Evening Beast employees heading prematurely for the scrap heap thanks to the ineptitude of successive managements.
This has resulted in a number of hangovers, which in turn have led to a complete lack of desire to do any work. [...]
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 [...]
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