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# Why I Won't Miss Press Gazette
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/04/why_i_wont_miss_press_gazette/
- Published: 2009-04-08T14:15:06.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:28:55.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: community, Journalism, journalist blogs, press gazette

Because for all its “impact and authority”, \*Press Gazette \*was  
never really like that for me. For one reason or another, I’ve found  
myself working in the trade magazine niche of specialish magazines, and  
the [whole specialist magazine sector was never well covered by *Press Gazette*](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/05/press%5Fgazette%5Frelaunches%5Fstill%5Fexcludes%5Ftrade%5Fpres.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).  
Journalism is a broad church, if you’ll excuse the cliche. Print  
publications aren’t great at covering sucha range of activity – but  
the internet excells at it.

I think the lack of centralisation of the discussion about digital  
journalism is one of its strengths: it’s dozens of over-lapping niche  
discussions. The fact that ideas and debates move between journalism  
educators, and local hacks, and trade journalists, and national press  
hacks is one of the joys of the new way of talking about journalism,  
and any new site has to acknowledge and be part of that.  
Journalism.co.uk has done that very successfully, I think, which is why  
I have far more affection for it than for the *Media Guardian*, which is  
still more of the “we are the centre” model.

Pushing for one centralised hub for discussion feels, to me, like  
another example of harking back to the pre-internet days when there  
could be one or two dominant players.

What Martin is calling for already exists.Genuine debate and discussion is happening now, in this  
blog post, in hundreds like it, in forums and on Twitter and in  
ever-increasing numbers of places across the web. There are probably  
more words being published about journalism *right now* than at \*any \*other  
time in its history. And if we don’t learn the lesson of that, and  
realise that that is happening to every industry, hobby and interest,  
then many, many more journalistic jobs will be lost.