The Drum: Newsquest (Herald & Evening Times) to introduce online subscription model
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:41
"Newsquest (Herald & Times) will take a ‘quality over quantity’ approach as it moves away from targeting unique users and build on a returning online audience. … a subscription platform is expected to be introduced across online content …
Grey Cardigan: Extract from the November column
Monday, 29 November 2010, 11:55
Grey Cardigan applauds Greater Manchester Police's Twitter incident feed but asks the correct question of chief constable Peter Fahy: "Why not set up a permanent, 24-hour feed of police activity to the Oldham-based Manchester Evening News and its remaining associated weeklies? Then you might not have to stage a publicity stunt the next time the government casts a stern eye over your finances."
paidContent:UK: Hyperlocal Hopes May Be Blunted By Revenue Realities In 2010
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 09:24
"[If] you’re going to ask Newsquest to hear your hyperlocal partnership proposition, you better have a good proposition. The company’s digital managing director Roger Green spoke with refreshing honesty by saying he’s sick of upstart local businesses—or “zero-revenue publishers” as he calls them—looking for a free ride from the Gannett-owned publisher’s commercial mass."
HTFP: Court ruling ‘clarifies law on user-generated content’
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 08:50
"As soon as Newsquest received the legal claim from Mr Karim, the readers' comments were removed from the websites concerned. Mr Justice Eady concluded that Newsquest websites were acting as hosts of the reader comments for the purposes of Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 and therefore would not be liable for any damages even if the material was unlawful."
Jon Slattery: Black day in British newspaper history
Friday, 28 November 2008, 09:01
"I covered the newspaper industry for 23 years at Press Gazette and in all that time I don't remember anything remotely as bad as this."
Guardian: ‘With the staff we’ve got, we do the best we can’
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:36
Media Guardian visits the Leigh Journal, a local Newsquest weekly which is down to two staff: "When Hulme and Gomm discuss their professional pasts, they sound wistful. The job of putting the paper out means they haven't got the time to directly report on court proceedings and council meetings, or cultivate off-the-record sources. In more callow hands, their paper would surely have tumbled into the kind of hacked-out "churnalism" decried in Nick Davies's book Flat Earth News – but as they see it, what saves them is the spiderweb of sources amassed during their working lives. … "
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 07:10
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Newsquest rolls out new regional newspaper websites and now requires registration for its sites’ famously, er, robust comments sections.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:36
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"Malvern Gazette reporter Tarik Al Rasheed was among the top trainee journalists in the country in this year’s professional journalism examinations."
Monday, 12 November 2007, 12:01
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"The [NUJ] chapel at The Press in York has reached an agreement with management over how much news content journalists should upload to the website, following a four-month boycott."
Friday, 2 November 2007, 15:24
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"RUNCORNANDWIDNESWORLD has been named website of the year at the Newsquest Cheshire/Merseyside annual awards." That’s "Runcorn and Widnes World".
Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 06:24
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Newsquest’s Lancashire Telegraph has jumped on the hyperlocal bandwagon with ‘Your East Lancs’, which covers almost 20 local communities, primarily villages.
Monday, 13 August 2007, 08:08
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"On Thursday, [Gannett] filed papers with the [SEC] that included a new change-of-control plan, one that would accelerate payments to top executives in the event of a corporate takeover."
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 19:14
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Industrial dispute? What industrial dispute? We have pressing workflow management issue to resolve! Herald gets "latest database-managed cross-media content-management solution from Atex"
Monday, 9 July 2007, 07:56
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"The Competition Commission has announced it is to re-visit assurances made by Newsquest when it purchased the [Herald] group."
