Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:01
Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management – and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. … The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."
Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t
Friday, 1 January 2010, 12:01
Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management – and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. … The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."
New York Times: For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts
Monday, 24 November 2008, 14:42
"The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program."
Times Online: Journalists cry foul as politicians put the boot in
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:11
"[A] a charity football match between Scottish politicians and sports journalists which had to be abandoned after descending into a brawl…"
AFP: News Blind Frenchman fined for drunk driving
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:04
"A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined €500 by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license." (HT: Craig McGinty)
Monday, 14 April 2008, 15:27
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"[M]y basic goal when I talk with the staff at a newspaper is to try to identify — or bring out of the woodwork — one early adopter."
Monday, 31 December 2007, 09:05
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The bit done without Twitter — virtually all of the comments, gathered from people across the UK news industry, have some interesting web-related element.
Monday, 24 December 2007, 11:04
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"[G]enealogical research revealed that he can count bankrupts, outlaws and even a man charged with being a murderer among his Aberdeenshire ancestors…"
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 09:29
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"An ex-newsreader who lost everything through credit card debt and alcohol abuse was arrested at a £130-a-night hotel for allegedly hitting a woman. … before being released without charge."
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 09:19
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The orginal Brighton Argus story on former BBC, Reuters, ITN, Sky, and CNBC newsreader Ed Mitchell: "The smartly dressed and clean-shaven former journalist now sleeps on benches behind the Babylon Lounge which he jokingly calls the Hotel Babylon."
Friday, 14 December 2007, 08:29
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“My only assets now are a rucksack, a sleeping bag and my clothes, but I am a lot more self reliant,” … said [former ITN News at Ten presenter Ed Mitchell, who is reported to be sleeping rough in Hove].
Friday, 9 November 2007, 09:43
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"The NUJ may think that Web 2.0 is "rubbish ", but B2B journalists are increasingly turning to blogs and other forms of online media for information and ideas, according to a new survey."
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 22:02
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"Originally the proposed shield law gave a broad immunization to journalists, including bloggers who acted as journalists. But eventually it morphed into a far less protective form…"
Saturday, 18 August 2007, 11:22
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"Lord Deedes, who has died aged 94, was a Cabinet minister from 1962 to 1964, and editor of the The Daily Telegraph from 1974 to 1986"
