Posted by Grey Cardigan on 19 August 2010 at 16:51
Tags: Journalism
Having just suffered the guilt of taking on an Evening Beast trainee on a salary of £15k (and that’s out in the sticks), I was most interested in the pay on offer for this London-based job advertised by arch-blogger Iain Dale. And it’s not as if they don’t want much!
Staff/Online Writer. Total Politics:
Total Politics is the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 19 August 2010 at 14:28
Tags: Journalism
Remember the A-level triplets? While we’re unlikely to see their ilk again, newspapers across the country have been taking advantage of happy 18-year-old girls today.
Now there is a blog “exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive white girls in low cut tops do A-Levels.”
Enjoy.
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 16 August 2010 at 12:53
Tags: Journalism
YOU NEVER forget your first door knock – and certainly not your first death knock. They are fraught with uncertainty. You never know if you’re going to be punched in the chops by a porn merchant’s minder, or invited in for tea so the grieving family can ‘pay tribute’ to the deceased before departing with [...]
Continue ReadingPosted by Grey Cardigan on 7 August 2010 at 18:18
Tags: Journalism
I’ve not been able to corroborate this, but it does come from an impeccable source so I’ll share it with you.
My snout tells me that Newsquest are closing their final salary pension scheme for existing staff. No doubt more will follow come Monday.
Have a good weekend, y’all.
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 31 July 2010 at 12:24
Tags: Journalism
The two ladies who drove 20-odd miles to deliver emergency dog food supplies to Liz-fucking-Jones after she complained about her utter poverty must have been a little surprised at what met them. Where was the mud-floored hovel in which their heroine sat sobbing and shivering in the corner? Where was the dog-eaten furniture and where [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 31 July 2010 at 10:30
Tags: Journalism
The film re-make of cult Eighties TV series The A-Team has been universally panned by the critics … except in today’s Sun.
They sent an original A-Team fan and a lad of 12 to see the film and guess what? They both loved the movie, scoring it 8/10 and 9/10 respectively.
Surprised? Well The A-Team was made [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 20 July 2010 at 14:28
Tags: Journalism
You bet it does!
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 17 July 2010 at 11:32
Tags: Journalism
The Daily Mail’s reader offers are the envy of the newspaper world. They always look good; they always capture the zeitgeist. So the thought of giving away a ‘free’ DAB radio worth £35, just days after scare stories about the cost of the digital switchover, must have seemed like a spiffing wheeze.
But sadly, all is not [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 7 July 2010 at 14:49
Tags: Journalism
It’s a flanelette frenzy as the Media Guardian website reports at length on an ASA ruling against the Daily Mail for offering readers pairs of men’s pyjamas (only £19.99) purporting to be “manufactured by a leading British manufacturer, Tootal” when they were in fact made in South Korea.
One small problem. The Guardian’s reader offer site unfortunately [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 1 July 2010 at 14:37
Tags: Journalism
EVEN IN these turbulent times, I thought I’d seen everything when it comes to the crass stupidity of management, but the latest Johnston Press edict, issued by a suit called Paul Bentham, is simply beyond belief.
In a memo sent to journalists on the group’s South Yorkshire newspapers, Mr Bentham insists that: “The best practice [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 19 June 2010 at 12:40
Tags: Journalism
The Daily Telegraph today unveils Matthew Norman as its new restaurant critic, according him the customary front page slot on the Weekend section.
But wither his piss-poor predecessor, Jasper Gerrard, mate of departed editor Will Lewis? Any sightings gratefully received.
PS: Matthew, stop referring to your wife as ‘the boss’. That’s the kind of thing you see [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 17 June 2010 at 14:05
Tags: Journalism
Those plans for the development of an Oldham headquarters for the Manchester Evening News might have been a bit indistinct, but they certainly inspired blogger Jon Slattery to make a telling comparison.
Splendid stuff!
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 6 June 2010 at 14:40
Tags: Journalism
We gather just after lunch at a city centre Plastilodge, to be addressed by our Chief Exec whose pockets are still bulging from last year’s bonus. He shamelessly lectures us on “matching resources against ongoing business requirements”, which I think means not spending any money that could instead go towards his pension pot.
Next up is [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 30 May 2010 at 09:27
Tags: Journalism
Taken from the blog of Peter Sands but worthy of a wider audience, a classic example of the headline writer not bothering to look at the picture.
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 26 May 2010 at 16:50
Tags: Journalism
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 25 May 2010 at 13:20
Tags: Journalism
We shouldn’t allow the passing of George and Lynne from the pages of The Sun to go unmarked. The cartoon strip (and never was the word more appropriate) had run since 1976 until it was unceremoniously ousted by Wallace and Gromit a couple of weeks ago.
And perhaps that was the problem. The relatively prosperous middle-class couple [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 17 May 2010 at 11:36
Tags: Journalism
Shamelessly stolen from elsewhere.
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 16 May 2010 at 10:10
Tags: Journalism
LISTENING to David Cameron this morning talking about reining in public sector pay and bonuses makes me wish for once that such regulation would extend to the private sector. Why? Step forward John Fry and Sly Bailey, whose snouts are firmly ensconced in the corporate trough.
At Trinity Mirror, chief executive Sly Bailey received a ‘package’ of £1.68 million [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 8 May 2010 at 13:15
Tags: Journalism
I USED to love election nights. You’d pick your top boys (and girls), let them have a lie-in on Thursday morning and then despatch them to town halls far and wide for the count.
The planning was brilliant; a real buzz. You’d know from the returning officers what time a result was expected, you’d have snappers [...]
Posted by Grey Cardigan on 22 April 2010 at 19:36
Tags: Journalism
IN THESE difficult times, when we’re engaged in a debilitating war with an Orc-like army of beancounters, we have to take our small victories where we can. Which brings us to the Evening Beast’s oleaginous managing director, the Eminence Grease.
Now when you’re constantly cost-cutting and making people redundant, you do tend to try to reign [...]
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