paidContent:UK: Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity
Monday, 6 December 2010, 14:06
Robert Andrews: "Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers … Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. "
New Media Age: AND’s Local People rolls out iPhone app of local news
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 13:45
"Local People, Associated Northcliffe Digital’s network of hyperlocal sites, has launched an iPhone app to provide communities with news while on the move. … A Top Places Nearby feature allows users to search for popular attractions by area."
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Publisher begins roll-out of new story links
Monday, 30 November 2009, 13:16
Northcliffe begins rollout of semantic-search based topic pages at thisisbristol.co.uk.
Adam Westbrook: 5 reasons why UK newspapers still don’t get multimedia
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 22:52
Adam Westbrook: "as well as lacking style, originality, interactivity, some UK papers still have a worrying lack of quality."
Observer: Small earthquake in Bideford
Monday, 6 July 2009, 07:58
Peter Preston: "Can you have a hyperlocal news site without anything you could call news on it, just local bits and blogs about the weather and links to butchers, bakers and estate agents? If you want Bideford news, go to the North Devon Gazette and find at least 97 chunks of it (including 'North Devon Rotarians in conference with Archbishop Tutu and UN Secretary-General')." Huh?!
Press Gazette: Northcliffe ultra-local web pilot launches in south-west
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 14:03
"Each site will have a community publisher, whose role is to oversee what is published and contribute some content, but their primary role is to encourage other local people to get involved, write articles and upload content."
New Media Age: Associated Northcliffe Digital launches hyperlocal social sites
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 13:13
"Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has launched the first phase of its hyperlocal sites, rolling out 23 local community sites in South West England."
Journalism.co.uk: New Northcliffe hyperlocal sites will combine ‘social networking and news’
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 22:32
"Seamus McCauley, strategic analyst at Associated Northcliffe Digital [said] the company is developing a series of hyperlocal websites that 'combine social networking with news'. The first 30 sites will go live next month. … McCauley insisted the new hyperlocal sites would not be in competition with its existing network of regional websites under the ‘thisis’ brand. The publisher also publishes a series of postcode sites, automatically fed by content from a local title, for example the Nottingham Evening Post's websites."
Adrian Monck: The real world of British local newspapers
Monday, 24 November 2008, 14:30
Bloggers in Kent are refusing to continue writing for the Kent Courier. One writes: "they sent out a general letter to all us community correspondents saying that they are no longer going to pay us but that they wanted us to carry on writing the column anyway in the form of a blog and then they would choose the best bits for the weekly bit in the paper. Well guess what Courier? I’m already blogging and I beat you to it by two and a half years."
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Northcliffe Media to publish more websites than newspapers with launch of 45 new sites
Monday, 15 September 2008, 06:44
Northcliffe is launching the sites that subdivide some of its existing papers' sites into more local propositions. But not all of its strategy is hyperlocal – there are also regaional business sites pooling regional content…
CounterValue: The Thanet Gazette – will the last journalist to leave, please turn out the lights?
Saturday, 9 August 2008, 15:46
"The Isle of Thanet Gazette – a Northcliffe-owned title … [have] got a absolutely cracking splash this week … But there are two things that are wrong with it. … It was broken on a series of amazing local blogs days ago after the local papers had wrung their hands about what to do with it."
Friday, 27 June 2008, 15:16
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Student journalist rips Northcliffe’s (older) regional newspaper sites…
Friday, 19 October 2007, 11:18
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"We’ve got a new website as of today, although rather confusingly the old one is still sitting there as well. … I’d ignore that and log onto www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk instead."
Digital highlights from Northcliffe presentation
Friday, 12 October 2007, 10:00
Northcliffe Media’s investor briefing to the Cityearlier this week made for some very interesting reading.
NMG managing director Michael Pelosi said: “We must deliver local audiences if we are to achieve profitable revenue growth. Digital publishing has a key role to play here.”
Meanwhile, the company also announced this week that Associated Northcliffe Digital is being [...]
