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Yesterday Chief Inspector Mark Payne of the West Midlands Police spoke to the Isle of Man Social Media Club . Following the Third Thursday meeting, he and I had a fascinating conversation about [...]
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Johnston Press, parent company to the Isle of Man Newspapers, is introducing subscriptions fees on their websites in a pilot scheme starting next week.
The Worksop Guardian, Ripley & Heanor News, Northumberland Gazette, Whitby Gazette (all in England), and the Southern Reporter and Carrick Gazette (in Scotland) will restrict access to non-subscribers, in an [...]
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It seems that journalists hate when PRs ring to follow up on an email according to a survey conducted by Iain Fleming as part of his CIPR (Chatered Institute of Public Relations Diploma) course at Queen Margaret University (thanks to Neville Hobson for pointing the story out).
The key finding: “The project also reveals that the [...]
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Time was, when asked this questions, I’d start to recite deadlines, copy guidelines and descriptions of newsroom teams. But that was before the Internet changed everything.
Now print journalists are producing video reports and podcasts. Radio and TV journalists are blogging. And then there are bloggers, who many say are a law unto themselves.
So [...]
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Most newspapers have moved online either wholly or within a mixed publishing model. There is a myriad of benefits to both the publisher and the reader, but there is one downside that comes up time and again.
People like to read the newspaper. They like to spread it out on the table and take [...]
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BusinessWeek is running an excellent article by BL Ochman entitled ‘Debunking six social media myths’. This is a must read for any organisations thinking of dipping their toes into the Web 2.0 water. Popular misconceptions include:
Social media is cheap, if not free
Anyone can do it
You can make a big splash in a short time
You can [...]
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January was a particularly busy month for me, what with one week’s hols, one week in London at a trade show and one week caught up with family business, I’m still trying to grasp that it’s February already.
So I was probably the last one in the Isle of Man to know [...]
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1. Stephen Davies must have spent a lot of time in compiling this list of UK jounalists on Twitter.
2. Christopher Howse asks if we should abandon the use of the apostrophe. I vote no!
3. Look who made the UK top 50 PR people by Twitter influence!
4. Chris Brogan has a case study of an individual [...]
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I’ve been to dozens of awards dinners over the years and on the whole they are generally either very tedious affairs or very boozy parties, depending on whether you’ve won an award.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Awards for Excellence gala in Douglas, Isle of Man. This was not your run of [...]
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Tonight the the BCS Isle of Man section is hosting an event about the ManxWiki.
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. Our [...]
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We’ve recently welcomed a new voice in social media to the Isle of Man. Derek ‘The Bandit’ Richardson has just relocated from South Africa and you’ll soon be hearing him at weekends on 3FM. But when he’s not entertaining Island residents with his take on dance music, he’s pretty busy online. He’s got two podcasts: [...]
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The third Thursday of each month, the Isle of Man Social Media Club meets. This month, Third Thursday is tomorrow, 18 September, 12.30 at Paparazzi, Douglas Promenade. Everyone is welcome. But should you come?
Anyone who is interested in journalism, publishing, communication, art, media, teaching, learning, Internet, marketing. In short, anyone who is curious about how [...]
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Every once in a while a journalist, a blogger or commenter will push things just a little too far. I’ve been accused of it myself once or twice. Usually I’m happy to make things right.
Today the Independent on Sunday teaches us all a lesson on how to write an apology for publication [...]
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Last evening, after a pretty trying day, I spoiled myself by sitting down in a quiet room and reading the newspaper. For someone who usually only finds time to scan a website, it was a real treat. The Isle of Man Examiner is still published as a broadsheet, and I [...]
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Media Week is reporting that Johnston Press, owners of Isle of Man Newspapers, has seen advertising revenues plummet by 21.0% year on year in the first seven weeks of the second half of the year.
Total revenue fell 6.3% to £293m for the first six months of 2008, year on year, while operating profit fell 15.6% [...]
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It seems a whole bunch of people have their knickers in a twist about a split second view of a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley in a Visit London promotional video shown in Beijing.
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said the use of the image is ‘deeply disturbing’.
A senior government official told Sky [...]
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Title: Managing Editor/Director/Broadcaster
Employer: Pear Publishing
Beat: Worldwide celebrity music, culture and business.
Career highlight: Oh god, I have a few! The first one was when I launched my first celeb mag back in 1997. I was still at university in Swansea. Basically, I was a typical student and I wanted to get into nightclubs/gigs for free and [...]
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Some readers might say that boobs and chips are two of their favourite things. And that’s exactly what Canadian franchise New York Fries is hoping people think when they see this advert. You might think I’m about to climb up on my feminist soapbox over this one, but no. I’m just saluting great Canadian ingenuity.
Thanks [...]
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According to the Social Media Club blog there are nine get togethers organised before the end of the month. All of them are in American cities, plus there is one other taking place right here in the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man Social Media Club meets the Third Thursday of each [...]
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Take a bit of racism, add a smidgen of sexism and mix well with one male ego. Yield: Internationally acclaimed journalist Martin Bashir.
Ok, I know I’m a bit late on this one, but I wanted add my two pennies on the incident where journalist Martin Bashir’s attempt at humour managed to offend his audience and [...]
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Isle of Man journalists are leaving the profession in droves. ITV Border recently lost journalist Joanne Clague, 3FM said goodbye to news director Merita Taylor, Isle of Man Newspapers have lost both editor John Sherrocks and business reporter Julie Taylor. Now Dan Davies is leaving Manx Radio to take on a government position.
Why the exodus? [...]
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Every weekend I look forward to sipping a cup of java and reading the UK public relations profession’s trade mag, PR Week. I love it; I really do. It’s chock full of interesting stories about the business I’m so passionate about. There is news, campaign case studies, media profiles and collection of columnists worth reading. [...]
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Welcome to the third installment of THE Journo, Strive Notes’s…modern day ‘meet the press’. Today I’m very pleased to feature the hard man of news from Manx Radio….Sir Stuart Peters.
Name: Stuart Peters
Title: Senior Broadcast Journalist. Producer and presenter of ‘Mandate’ – our early morning news and current affairs hour
Employer: Manx Radio
Beat: Isle of Man [...]
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The Apprentice is over, long live the queen (Lee Mc that is). Of course he won because, despite lying about his university credentials on his CV and misspelling ‘tomorrow’, he reminded Sir Alan of himself, and who better to promote than someone in Sir Alan’s own image?
Sorry, Lee didn’t ‘lie’ but said he ‘misconstrued information’which [...]
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With the news that JK Rowling’s 800 word short story was sold at a charity auction for £25k and that London Mayor Boris Johnson will pocket £250k a year for a weekly column in the Telegraph, I do believe it’s time I should have a chat with my editor at [...]
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Britain’s brightest lie and they can’t spell either. That’s the conclusion you can draw from The Apprentice that speeds to its conclusion next week with four, rather than two candidates who are, the programme makers tell us, the tycoons of tomorrow.
They include Lee McQueen who’s a likeable chap, tall, good looking, [...]
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I know we’ve been reading a lot about bad pitches from PRs these days. How about letting some bad behaviour from journos get some air time too?! If they want us to help them do their jobs, they should show a little respect.
Dos and don’ts for jounros if you want to get the [...]
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This morning I had a note from local publisher Keith Uren about the launch of new magazine for the Isle of Man. It’s called Here & There and will be published monthly as the in-flight magazine for Manx2.com airlines.
Here & There will be an A5 glossy magazine published on the 1st of every month and [...]
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Imagine your spokesperson is hauled over the coals in a hostile interview for something that he never said. He holds his own in the interview but comes across looking defensive. What can you do, after the fact, to salvage the situation?
This is the exactly the challenge faced earlier this week by the PRs [...]
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THE Journo is a recurring feature on Strive Notes…a kind of modern day ‘meet the press’. With this installment I am very happy to welcome tech and biz freelancer and entrepreneur…Sally Whittle.
Name: Sally Whittle
Title: Freelance journalist
Employer: I write for a mixture of magazines, newspapers, trade mags,
websites and commercial clients. I also run pitching workshops [...]
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