West Highland Free Press makes case for employee ownership as path to salvation for local newspapers
By Paul Wood
09 May 9:22
The demise of local newspapers is well documented.
Many have floundered in the face of competition from the internet or simply delivered insufficient profit for their corporate shareholders to view them as viable and have shut up shop.
Mrs Thatcher told him that she did not believe the British troops were winning the Falklands War until she heard him on the radio announcing a victory at Goose Green as she was on the way to Command HQ in Northwood in May 1982.
An awful lot has been written about secret arrests and secret justice over the last few weeks.
Even a cursory examination of Alison Kervin’s career credentials leaves a man consumed by inadequacy.
Copy boy grows up in Glasgow’s inky world of teleprinters and Linotypes, moves south to take his place in the vanguard of a technological revolution and rises to become editor of the most famous paper in the world. Oh yes, and on the way, he joins the Royal Marines and becomes a champion boxer.
Evil, wicked, tyrannical, depraved, twisted, stupid, boastful, manipulative, selfish, misogynist, vindictive, narcissist.
Former Labour Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw told Press Gazette this month that he thought plans to launch a network of local TV stations would be a “flop”.
Here Bill Smith – proprietor of Brighton-based local TV licensee The Latest – hits back:
Publishers – to include websites containing news-related material, as well as newspapers and magazines – will soon be regulated by a new and more powerful watchdog, to be established within the next six to eight months.
It's more than a year since I last stepped foot in the office. The thought of returning terrifies me - the questioning, the people who won't know what to say, the fact of being a stranger there after 30 years' service. Most of all, vain and shallow as it is, I'm embarrassed about my appearance.
Earlier this month, on International Women’s Day, Press Gazette asked readers to name the most inspiring female journalists.
After a huge response, ex-Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin came top.
A recent article published by Press Gazette, ‘Why journalists need to assert the importance of editorial material’, touched on several key points that hit home. While it ultimately came across as an advertorial, the observations it raised bear discussion.
An awful lot of nonsense has been written and spoken since the Guardian blew the phone-hacking scandal wide open in 2011 with its report that Milly Dowler's voicemail had been intercepted and deleted. We have had a £4m public inquiry, the closure of the country's best-selling newspaper, and seen police banging on suburban doors at dawn to arrest journalists who could more sensibly have been asked to attend the local copshop at a given time. The public money that has been spent on the demonising of the press is mind-boggling.
Here’s something. A journalist I ran into, an editor, in fact, told me about flying out of an airport in a developing country after a fact-finding trip he had been on.
There has never been a better time to be a journalist, if it’s your hobby. If you hope to make a living out of it, then I can’t remember it being worse.
Fiona Salmon is Publisher Director at Vibrant Media
If journalists wanted to be in marketing, they’d have gone into PR, advertising or content marketing.
If you have a laptop and access to the internet you could be on your way to making millions.
Peter Preston: 'Leveson sees journalism as an exercise in providing cases for the courts to examine'
By Peter Preston
25 February 15:15
Press freedom, with inexorable logic, is the right to publish stories I disapprove of just as much as stories I wholly endorse.
The Guardian has said columnist Marina Hyde was "channelling" Rupert Murdoch when she talking about Page 3 girls as 'downmarket scrubbers'. Here Sun managing editor Richard Caseby explains why he is not satisfied with this explanation and still wants an apology from the paper.
PR chief: 'The press have nothing to fear from a strong, innovative and robust regime of regulation'
By CIPR chief executive Jane Wilson
21 February 9:52
PR chief: 'The press have nothing to fear from a strong, innovative and robust regime of regulation,'
