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Press Gazette's double standards

Noted in an otherwise positive story about Matt Hill crowdfunding a rebooted Media Talk podcast: Asked by Press Gazette last month whether The Guardian’s decision to axe Media Talk was an indication that podcasts have had their day, Hill said: “Actually I think

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digital journalism

Nostalgia is not a viable approach to journalism (part 267)

Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training appeared on the Press Gazette site. It wasn’t depressing because of the headline finding: The top four most important skills cited by editors were: writing, finding news stories, interviewing and legal knowledge As Joanna Geary

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humour

A Note to Prospective NUJ Members

We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things happening amongst the membership. It’s not all hard-Left

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Why I Won't Miss 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

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B2B

More Evidence for the Death of Print

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.

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blogging

Another Drop in the Media Ocean

Patrick Smith of Press Gazette (which may be about to go web-only), has finally dipped his toes into the bloggy waters of journalistic blogging with his own blog, Another Drop in the Ocean. And, like the good hack that he is, he’s kicked

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journalism

Journos Tweet Their 2007 Lessons

Martin Stabe has used Twitter to gather lessons learnt in 2007 from various new media hacks. I appear to be the only one who sent in a really flippant answer. Ah, well. Be true to your own voice is the first rule of blogging…

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awards

Tony Collins: Award-Winning Digital Journalist

One of our blogging journalists, Tony Collins, has bagged the digital journalist award in the Magazine Journalism Awards, for his work exposing the failure, mismanagement and waste of the NHS IT project. According to the judges: “More of us should read this. Staggering sums

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community

Left Hand, Meet Right Hand…

My, my. Information moves so smoothly around big businesses… I learn from Munir that Isabel, the community editor of one of our titles, Farmers Weekly, features in Press Gazette‘s My Week column a week back. It has some useful insight into what we’

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journalism

Press Gazette Covers RBI Sale

To be fair, a trade press story popped up on the *Press Gazette *Twitter feed this morning Centaur in 300k directory buy-up: Centaur has acquired the Creative Handbook from Reed Business Information for £300,000.The purchase of the annual directory for the creative

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journalism

Press Gazette relaunches, still excludes trade press

So, Press Gazette relaunched last week. I actually saw the website in the first few hours, thanks to Martin Stabe’s tweet, but I’ve been far too busy to write about it. My first impression was generally positive. I liked the “classic yet