Acquisitions
Even former Mirror boss David Montgomery, who has a reputation as a ferocious cost-cutter, admits his new pan-European newspaper group Mecom cannot cost-cut its way out of a recession. Shares in the company tumbled on the London Stock Exchange last week after the newspaper group failed to impress the market
Blogging
Adam Tinworth, the blogging supremo of Reed Business Information (RBI) England, reports how Flightblogger, one of RBIs bloggers, broke the Obama running mate story. This ties in nicely with that quote I let hang in the air Monday on how beat bloggers pose a serious threat to the newspaper industry
Blogging
Yes, it's that kind of day: just recovering from what felt like a flu on Saturday, which today is more like a really nasty cold, and trying to catch up with work as well as all the writing I planned to do over the weekend I mostly spent
Pictures
Glendalough, Ireland (April last year)
Blogging
I know I write a lot about the wonders of the web, but it does of course have its pitfalls as well, and here's one of the best parodies of web evangelism I've come across in a while. Now, even though I read the Cluetrain earlyish
Freesheets
This week's news that Bonnier's free daily City would go non-daily from next month on, and reduce its publishing days to Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursday, had many industry experts scratching their heads - not to mention competitors Metro International and Schibsted, now on the same team
Marketing and PR
In this day and age it sometimes feel like every website, product, gadget is being communitised, that community is the marketing bandwagon of our time. Still, some attempts at making "community" part of ones marketing strategy are arguably braver than others. One of the very bravest I'
Pictures
I'm imagining this guy wasn't all too happy to have photographers crawling in front of the stage. The shot is from a recent Secret Garden gig during a festival I covered. I'm going through all my photos this weekend, and this is one I
Journalism
I was reading a post by Ian Betteridge (via Joanna Geary) and thought to myself, "Well, of course: journalists need to become part of the conversation, part of the community they serve again, or history will just make them irrelevant." Then I was reminded of the term "
Acquisitions
Mecom-boss David Montgomery has denied a concrete offer for Edda Media has been put forward, and said the British company's board has no intention of selling the Norwegian newspaper group. The former Mirror-boss turned European media mogul was visiting his newspapers in north-west Norway at the start of
Journalism
I was alerted to this " handy-dandy [collaborative] guide to these curmudgeonly views and their counterpoints" by one of Mark Comerford's tweets. I can think of a few answers, but am mired in deadlines, think I've exceeded my screen rationing time for today (and tomorrow
Blogging
Sunday Herald has a really interesting piece on how some of Scotland's leading journalists are coping with reader comments, which makes for interesting and revealing reading (via Martin Stabe). Most can't abide or be bothered with them for more or less obvious reasons; it's