links for 2006-11-28
Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 09:33
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Phil Dilks, whose libel suit against the Mail on Sunday was reported on in the last issue, comments on the demise of Press Gazette.
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At least one ex-Press Gazette reporter has hit the ground running.
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“At a time when online publishing has found a very low-cost, high impact model of publication, PG went old school and bulked up. Had it embraced the new model – looking to Nick Denton, Rafat Ali or Ashley Norris rather than to the glory days of print – it
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“I can’t help but think there is a dark, foreboding irony that the newspaper industry’s trade magazine should fold at this time, when the nerves and belief of journalists are being shredded by dramatic changes across the business.”
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“Commiserations to all the journalists now without a job – especially Jon Slattery who has been there for 22 years (we crossed paths in around 1985/86, covering many of the same press conferences and launches – I don’t think even he thought at the time he
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The Observer’s Web 2.0 feature highlights some interesting new company names from the Valley.
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Is Angela Merkel the first head of state with a video podcast?
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Is “crowdsourcing” just a euphemism for the commercial exploitation of unpaid user-generated content?
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Emily Bell: “David Cameron’s videos, blog posts, etc, never veer into the realm of the conversational. They never refer to sources outside Cameron or point to material he’s seen or read, or link to people he’s talked to. It is a one-way diatribe of not-qu
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Guy Clapperton believes journalists have changed since PG’s heyday – they no longer care deeply about regional journalism. The “silo mentality” in journalism didn’t help either.
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Nicole of the journalism jobs blog is upset about our closure, not least because we were trying to sign her up to blog for the recently-launched Jobs4Journalists classified site.
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Emma Barnett at Cardiff University got a week’s work experience at Press Gazette, but now won’t get to do it. Sorry, Emma.
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1. Paul Linford&hellip | 29 November 2006 at 1045
[IMG ]The journalists’ trade mag Press Gazette closed last Friday to general lamentation within the industry, but my sources tell me that despite officially having been made redundant, its dedicated team of scribes are still at their desks and hard at work. Whatever can it mean? Update:
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