Category Archives: Newsquest

Grey Cardigan: Extract from the November column

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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

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"[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’

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"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."

Guardian: ‘With the staff we’ve got, we do the best we can’

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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. ... "