Category Archives: Press Gazette

Wired.co.uk: Crunch time for British newspapers

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Peter Kirwan: "[Many] of our wilder ideas about what’s happening to British journalism have emerged, by osmosis, from the US. ... In some ways, however, the US newspaper market is different from ours. ... In terms of sheer awfulness, the numbers reported by some of America’s metro newspapers outstrip anything we’re seeing in the UK. ... In the US, debt has become a problem in ways that still seem exotic from a UK perspective. ... Locked into a US-style patchwork of local monopolies, Britain’s regional chains have spent the last six months watching their print-based ad revenues melting into thin air. ... The stakes are not quite so high – yet – for Britain’s national press."

Media Guardian: Is the Press Gazette a canary for the industry?

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Dominic Ponsford: "With Press Gazette gone, who will be left to write [stories like that of Sally Murrer]? The remaining journalism news websites aren't generally in the business of covering this sort of slow-burn news story. Web-only reporters often need to write five or six news stories a day. Spending a day out of the office chasing a story which might well be a dead-end could mean falling hopelessly behind competitors who have been glued to their computer screens watching the wires and RSS feeds."

Jon Slattery: Why Press Gazette should not die

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"Journalists of all people can keep a lively, independent website called Press Gazette going. ... We can't let some small time publisher like Wilmington kill it off. We are in a different era from print magazines. All we need is access to the web, to tap into the independent spirit of Press Gazette and connect with journalists across the country."

Jon Slattery: End in sight for Press Gazette Limited creditors

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Missed this few weeks ago: "A report to creditors of Press Gazette Limited, the company set up by Piers Morgan and Matthew Freud when they took over the magazine from Quantum Publishing, is expected to go out in the next four to five weeks from the administrators. PGL was put into administration in November 2006." Wonder how the Grey Cardigan feels about this...

Press Gazette: Doctor’s warning: ‘Poor quality of British journalism is a serious public health issue’

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"In an interview for this month’s print edition of Press Gazette, [Ben] Goldacre has condemned journalists for fueling what he calls the “MMR hoax” by giving widespread coverage to Doctor Andrew Wakefield’s claims that MMR jabs caused autism. He points out that vaccination rates have dropped from 92 per cent to 73 per cent prompting serious disease outbreaks since Wakefield’s research was first reported in 1998."

One Man and His Blog: More Evidence for the Death of Print

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Adam Tinworth: "When I heard that Press Gazette was switching to publishing once a month, with a features-led magazine, I thought it sounded like a good plan. It was exactly the sort of solution that could save a title - moving upmarket with a more analytical bent. How much to subscribe? £115. That's £7.67 per issue on the current "15 for the price of 12" offer or an eye-watering £9.58 without the offer. That's frankly insane. They're either relying on corporate subscriptions - not a good idea in the current financial climate - or they seriously over-estimate how much disposable income the average journalist has."