new media
Noted in an otherwise positive story about Matt Hill crowdfunding a rebooted Media Talk podcast [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/axed-guardian-media-talk-podcast-producer-takes-less-month-gather-year-long-funding] : > 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
digital journalism
Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47752&c=1] 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,
humour
We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/greycardigan/2009/10/grey-cardigan-october-column/] to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things [http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2009/09/
community
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.
B2B
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. So, I thought, I’d swing
Blogging
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/08/Another-Drop.png] Patrick Smith of Press Gazette (which may be about to go web-only [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/06/pressandpublishing]), has finally dipped his toes into the bloggy waters of journalistic blogging with his own
Journalism
Martin Stabe has used Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/] to gather lessons learnt in 2007 from various new media hacks [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/12/20/what-i-learned-from-2007/] . I appear to be the only one who sent in a really flippant answer. Ah, well. Be true to your
awards
One of our blogging journalists, Tony Collins [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/], has bagged the digital journalist award in the Magazine Journalism Awards [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=39196&c=1], for his work exposing the failure, mismanagement and waste of
community
My, my. Information moves so smoothly around big businesses… I learn from Munir [http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com/2007/08/how-uks-farmers.html] that Isabel, the community editor of one of our titles, Farmers Weekly, features in Press Gazette‘s My Week [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&
Journalism
To be fair, a trade press story popped up on the *Press Gazette *Twitter feed [http://twitter.com/pressgazette] this morning > Centaur in 300k directory buy-up [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37789&c=1]: Centaur has acquired the Creative Handbook from Reed
Journalism
So, Press Gazette relaunched last week [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37638&c=1]. I actually saw the website in the first few hours, thanks to Martin Stabe’s tweet [http://twitter.com/martinstabe/statuses/74541772], but I’ve been far too busy
