A debate about the effectiveness of journalism training and education in meeting the needs of rapidly changing and converging mainstream media is taking off in the United States. The issues are similar here.
I was alerted to the discussion by Ryan Sholin who is working on a thesis at San Jose State University about the adoption [...]
Last week while I was rambling on about the lack of really local news on the web, the New York Times was writing about “citizen bloggers and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs… creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites where the public can read and contribute items too small or too fleeting for weekly newspapers”. It has some [...]
It must be a tough time producing the Press Gazette which was closed, rescued and moved to new offices with a depleted staff. On top of that most of London seems to have been on holiday for the past fortnight.
But the headline today on my newsreader, Journalism facing massive new privacy curb, attracted attention. The [...]
The Press Gazette is to be resurected as a print publication after losing only one edition. An annoucement on the site suggests that no sale to the title has been finally agreed. It reads:
After being off the newsstand last week Press Gazette will be back this Friday following an approach from a new buyer.
The website’s [...]
It is good to see the achievements of the young team of journalists at the Press Gazette recognised in the Periodical Training Council’s New Journalist Awards, as the trade paper prepares for another week of publication under administration.
Martin Stabe picked up the award for the best new online journalists, while Zoe Smith was highly commended [...]
The Press Gazette is surviving week-by-week. Staff were told this evening that, “an industry consortium has agreed to fund the running costs of the title until next Thursday”. While there is life there is hope that some way of salvaging the weekly will be found.
I had a nightmare last night. Walking into Tesco’s I was confronted with piles of the Tesco Times — the red-top ‘value’ version and the ‘finest’ edition with a smart grey title. Fleeing to Asda I was offered Wal-Mart World.
It must have come from a conversation about “outsourcing” by newspapers of whole sections. The problem, [...]
Gracie Webster, newsagent in the village of Debenham, Suffolk, is 78 today and still going strong. She was married, moved into the High Street shop and had her birthday in November 48 years ago.
Every morning she is up and sorting papers for the delivery boys and girls hours before most bedroom alarm clocks sound. The [...]
This morning Roy Greenslade recorded in his Guardian blog that the San Jose Mercury is to cut 40 editorial jobs. In the main paper there was a report that the Freedom of Information Commissioner needs extra funds to cope with backlog of appeals against government bodies that have refused to release information.
On the face of [...]
The idea that the Press Gazette should be owned by a trust along the lines of the Scott Trust that runs the Guardian is attractive. It is important to the industry that there should be independent reporting and scrutiny in a time of rapid change, but it will not be easy to realise the dream [...]
