Category Archives: UK

allmediascotland: Subscriber Success for New News Website

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"A local news website has picked up 3000 subscribers in just a matter of months - and is making revenue despite having no online display advertising. ... [Eastwoodmercury.co.uk] caters for the middle-class Glasgow suburbs of Newton Mearns, Clarkston and Giffnock and is the brainchild of Tom McConigley, editorial manager of Clyde and Forth Media."

MurderMap: London Homicide Reported Direct from The Old Bailey

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"The Murder Map project aims to create the first ever comprehensive picture of homicide in the modern city. On its completion, our online database will contain details of every murder and manslaughter committed in London from the crimes of Jack the Ripper to the present day. It is based on our unique archive of homicide cases – the product of thousands of hours spent by skilled and dedicated crime reporters in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey."

allmediascotland: I’m Launching a New Newspaper

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Stewart Kirkpatrick: "In the next few weeks, I will be launching a new Scottish newspaper. ... there is a substantial gap in the market. There is room - in fact, a desperate need - for an online, heavyweight publication committed to quality journalism. Scotland needs an intelligent title that uses the internet, not fights against it."

Sunday Times: It’s not all bad news for Scotland’s defiant papers

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"Last month, the UK Government urged Scottish councils to go back to advertising jobs in local newspapers as well as on their own websites. Scotland Office ministers say local authorities may be excluding up to 40 per cent of the country by shifting the vast majority of their job adverts and public notices online, thereby breaching their duty to reach the whole population."

paidContent:UK: The Time Must Finally Be Now For Grassroots Media

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Patrick Smith: "The relaunched Evening Standard still offers very little on a local, district level online. In a city made up of inter-connected but often distinct boroughs, it surely makes sense to offer Londoners something relevant to the specific areas they live in. The Standard should become an umbrella for local blogs and news start-ups—a platform for local people to write news about their area."

SeattlePI.com: Former UW student shakes up British government

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"If the British tabloids knew about the sex-advice column Heather Brooke wrote for the University of Washington Daily nearly two decades ago they might run with it as a salacious news item. ... But that information hasn't reached them, it seems, and Brooke has proven to an entire nation she is a journalist of another ilk. In doing so, the former Seattleite has shaken up the British parliamentary leadership and perhaps changed forever the relationship between the British press and the House of Commons."

Your Right To Know: The latest ruse from Speaker Martin and his cronies

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Heather Brooke: "I’ve noticed a new excuse being used by Speaker Michael Martin and the House of Commons authorities when dealing with freedom of information requests. They are now using the section 34 exemption of ‘parliamentary privilege’ - which is an absolute exemption against which there is no public interest test."