This morning I woke up to see a tent pitched on our village green. Any room for doubt was ended when in the newsagent I was told the telephone kiosk a little further down the green had been plastered with colourful hearts with a similarly decorated chair inside. Yes, the newspaper is dated April 1.
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Opposition among smaller publishers to calls for changes in the rules to allow for greater consolidation are detected by Roy Greenslade. He says Chris Bullivant, chairman of the family-owned Observer Standard Group, based in Worcestershire, has written to the Office of Fair Trading to register his “total objection” to the call for a relaxation of [...]
I have rather lost track of David Montgomery and debt-encumbered Mecom but Cristine Lowe has an update.
Paul Bradshaw at Birmingham City University is starting an interesting looking new MA in online journalism.
A judge in Florida has ruled that journalists can report live from the press bench says Alison Gow
Jack Shafer at Slate argues that it’s [...]
The bleak news from across the Atlantic continues today with the Chicago Sun-Times filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. A big problem for the paper seems to be a tax bill dating back to the time Conrad Black (former Daily Telegraph owner too) owned the business.
Tribune, owner of the city’s larger paper and the LA [...]
All Fools day has come early this year with The Telegraph and The Sun among those hoaxed by sightings of a bear in Rendlesham forest, Suffolk, previously best known as a landing place for aliens from another world.
The East Anglian Daily Times which ran the story yesterday, today revealed that it was all a stunt [...]
The East Anglian Daily Times has redesigned its EADT24 website. It looks really good, with much clearer navigation but I fear they are spending too much time twittering about their stories rather than getting out and covering the ground.
One of their stories today (a page lead in print) is about a pub landlord who woke [...]
Finding out where a business is making a profit or not is always difficult, especially between annual reports. Within groups of companies it is even more difficult even by examining annual reports, let alone between reports. So it is not entirely surprising that that journalists working for for Guardian Media Group in the Manchester area [...]
Wordblog us undergoing a long overdue updating. The change to Wordpress 2.7.1 has gone fairly smoothly and I am now figuring out how to use a rather different interface. There will probably be more experimenting with themes but the important job now is to update links and basic information.
I have seen some pretty silly schemes to save local newspapers but the idea trumpeted in the lead of today’s Observer Media and Business section takes the biscuit. The idea is that the publishers will ask the government to relax takeover rules so that super groups could be formed. “Let us merge or we will [...]
Thank goodness Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, has ruled out a subsidy for newspapers. It is an idea which has always worried me deeply, a cure that was worse than the disease.
But in his interview with the Scarborough Evening News he does say that he will look at other [...]
