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Re: New weekly Birmingham Post launched today - Press Gazette

oliverluft — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:15:06 -0000

Tell me more about that Roger - which dailies? Can email me if you like.

Re: New weekly Birmingham Post launched today - Press Gazette

Roger Jones — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:58:35 -0000

They just haven't got it right. I hear Newsquest is looking to turn its dailies into weeklies. Worth Press Gazette following that up.

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journo1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:48:14 -0000

As if Clarkson beat Brooker to the top spot?! There's no justice in this world.

Re: New weekly Birmingham Post launched today - Press Gazette

rmcgeddon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:47:15 -0000

If anyone can point me in the direction of a local newspaper that has managed to make enough money out of its website to justify its existence and setting up costs, I'll buy them a packet of chocolate hob-nobs.

Re: MEP jailed after Sunday Telegraph expenses expose - Press Gazette

DaveMurray — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:45:18 -0000

This case amply demonstates the absolute importance of complete transparency in public life. Although MPs & MEPs etc have long shouted about privacy and wave the Data Protection Act about, we know full well that the Telegraph revelations were just the tip of the iceberg. For every Tom Wise, there are at least 100 others who have got away with tens of thousands of taxpayers money. Money that many of us hand over each May when the tax demand comes in

Re: John Humphrys’ shorthand. Any cop?

jimdale — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:31:48 -0000

Of course it's Pitman's - it must be because I can read it,

Re: John Humphrys’ shorthand. Any cop?

oliverluft — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:11:05 -0000

I thought it looked like Teeline, too. As I don't know what Pitman looks like I didn't feel that I could question it. Doesn't Pitman have more dots? Perhaps you have just unearthed a new BBC fakery scandal.

Re: Archant’s Norfolk papers move into new editorial HQ - Press Gazette

zedbooksman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:28:14 -0000

What a 'proud" record for a newspaper company that used to be famed for its committment to editorial quality. How long before its flagship London paper, the once-great Ham 'n High - now read by fewer than 6,000 readers in its core circulation area - can no longer justify its advertising costs will become a give-away? They have already done this in Maida Vale where they deliver 12,000 free copies to households in a desperate attempt to keep the numbers up. What a sad reflection on second rate magament and third rate editorial leadership!

Re: John Humphrys’ shorthand. Any cop?

Shortand Man — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:56 -0000

Um, isn't that Teeline? I thought Humphrys was a staunch Pitman advocate?

Re: New weekly Birmingham Post launched today - Press Gazette

Roger Jones — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:59:51 -0000

If that's the case then doesn't ITV and other commercial stations give its content away for nothing? The free-to-read model can be highly lucrative if done correctly. A mix of advertising, paid for services such as dating and a charge for premium content could well work.

Re: McCann lawyers seek to shut website - Press Gazette

Jonti — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:28:47 -0000

There needs to be a full investgation of the Madeleine Foundation in light of the recent news of Bank accounts being frozen.

Re: London Lite may be dead, but free distribution has a big future

Name — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:04:00 -0000

I'm a free magazine publisher, and our core title has grown to become the third largest audited (ABC) entertainment and listings magazine in the UK. Rather than hand to hand, we have built a network of public venues who agree to make our magazines available for pick up by patrons. The monitoring of supply levels to over 600 venues allows us to trim print levels to within less than 5% of our audited figure, and analysis of our distribution network allows us to target the audience our advertisers want to reach the most. It works.

Re: New weekly Birmingham Post launched today - Press Gazette

rmcgeddon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:10:33 -0000

Congratulations to the Post for completely missing the point and continuing to give expensively gathered news away for nothing, when everybody else in the business realised it was a dead-loss months, if not years, ago.

Genius.

Re: London Lite may be dead, but free distribution has a big future

peterbainbridge — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:41:03 -0000

There's only so much on the same footpath I'd imagine.? will it be back to the future for the gang wars of distribution.? still, there is room at the inn for a ''truly great free mag'' whoever starts giving away ''the killer mag'' quality paper and brilliant content, thats a first to market component. we wait with baited breath and wagging tongues.!

Re: Tycon sues BBC over 'criminal conspiracy' web posts - Press Gazette

jburns73 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:37 -0000

has anyone had any more info about next alternative i see the share price has creeped up slightly but there has been no trades

Thanks
John

Re: London Lite may be dead, but free distribution has a big future

MuscleCo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:20:38 -0000

As a magazine Publisher, I can see no alternative to going free, as advertising booms and the major newsagents are becoming even more irrational and grasping. Dealing with "The Big Smug Retailer" is like banging your head against a brick wall. A very stupid brick wall, frankly. Our readers want their magazine, but the people at ***** won't let them have it. Trying to order from them is like asking for more gruel. You want to ORDER a magazine? "Doris! This 'person' wants to Order a magazine which isn't Listed! Fetch security." So, in response, we have been building free subs and started giving away more and more copies through alternative outlets. And now an on-line version of the mag is up and running.
The advertisers are happy, and our readers too. I forsee another empty store downwind of the old Woolies...

Re: Trinity Mirror to close final salary pension scheme - Press Gazette

grahamealy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:15:08 -0000

Hopefully the NUJ with the backing of other unions will call for strike action. Enough is enough - Sly Bailey and co enjoy year on year lump sum payments of arround £240,000 per year paid into their pension pots - on top of £700,000 salary. Time to get tough on a couldn't give a dam company with Dickensian principles

Re: GMG commitment to Observer's future questioned - Press Gazette

Captain sensible — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:31:51 -0000

I want mourn the passing of Observer Music Monthly. Absolutely dire.

Re: Profits dive at at Newsquest US parent company - Press Gazette

JoeAnne11 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:05:56 -0000

Well exactly for the will of making profit we designed a program like the Clickbooth one and so far I have to admit that we have been able to help a lot of people start their own business and make their own way in the society. In my opinion this is quite a big deal.

Re: Archant to close London offices and relocate nine titles - Press Gazette

JoeAnne11 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:27:47 -0000

I wrote a few editorial articles a few years ago about this kind of relocated titles and I have to admit that I sold every single piece of them. I decided after that to start working harder on this matters and I'm really glad I managed to fulfill what I planed to.

Re: Debt, Liz? You haven’t a clue.

Sam Spade — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:47:02 -0000

Haha!

Bloody whingers.

I'm skint now, I've been skint all my working life, and TM has just seen to it that I will be skint throughout my retirement and will have to toil until the day I die (as a supermarket "greeter" or some such horror), before my urchin family finally plants my emaciated corpse in an unmarked pauper's grave.

Re: Trinity Mirror to close final salary pension scheme - Press Gazette

jdale — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:44:45 -0000

This is a disgrace and not a million miles removed from the banking scandals that have blighted this year. It's a simple matter of maths. For many years the pension fund deficit was increasing alarmingly. Trinity Mirror should have been putting a bit more money towards topping it up and a little less to shareholders

Re: Trinity Mirror to close final salary pension scheme - Press Gazette

Sam Spade — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:39:42 -0000

Charming. Thank you so much.

When I retire do you think Sly might take me back on minimum wage to clean her company Jag?

Re: Total Film to cut writers fees by 40% if deadlines missed - Press Gazette

joeybboy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:08:03 -0000

Perhaps writers should put their fees up 40% when they’re paid late.

Re: US publishers may boycott UK over libel risk - Press Gazette

Harold James, ex-NYC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:39:32 -0000

Let them stop circulation in Britain if they want. Or be more careful not to libel other people.

Britain isn't loosing anything if the 200 copies are withdrawn. And expats can get their news from home online. Cheaper, better, faster anyway ...

I think many print news publishers are acting in a death wish ...

Harold James, ex-NYC
London