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Dear unions and Twitterati – get a grip over #Clarkson strike comments

I’m going to start with a pre-emptive caveat. What Jeremy Clarkson said was silly and insensitive. Obviously. What is even more obvious is that the unions and the Twitterati need to get a grip. It surely must be apparent to … Continue reading

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Why Newsquest’s ‘social networking policy’ is a retrograde step

**UPDATE ON 12/8/11, 12.15pm** The blog post below questions the wisdom of Newsquest’s new ‘social networking policy’, which rules out many of the productive online practices of its journalists. I have just heard that Newsquest has SHELVED the policy in … Continue reading

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Has Louise Mensch just killed off the right of reply?

Louise Mensch [UPDATE at 5.20pm 29/7/2011 – The New Statesman’s Guy Walters tells me the David Jones who wrote to Mensch is not the David Jones who writes for the Daily Mail. Apols to the latter but the point below stands … Continue reading

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The Social Network: a defamatory revisionist fantasy

Old media sets the entry bar high. To partake in, say, the Hollywood film industry, you’ll need equipment – cameras, mobile cabins, mirrors with lights around the edges and hotdogs. You’ll need an international film production and distribution company – … Continue reading

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Can we save local newspapers?

I’m not going to answer that question. Yet. But politicians of all persuasions are certainly queuing up to tell us that we should try. The demise of the local rag would be a tragedy, they say. We’d be losing a … Continue reading

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The rise and rise of the grey-haired social surfers

Many local newspaper editors hope their core readers will protect them from the threat of the internet. In almost every region, these readers are Baby Boomers and their older brothers and sisters. Advertising rate cards proudly boast their publications are … Continue reading

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Why we no longer need paper

They say it’s not a crime to make a mistake. Clearly that’s not always the case and so I prefer the faithful bed fellow of that phrase: “The real crime is the failure to learn from ones mistakes”. Thus it … Continue reading

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