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Tim Bradshaw of the FT has just tweeted to say the Manchester United press office is refuting claims in today’s blogs that players have been banned from Twitter. Tim quotes the Man U press office sa saying; “Entirely up to them.” Paid Content has a good write up which asks “Is Manchester United the next [...]

It’s known as “door stepping” – and easy to imagine as a journalist or three turning up on your door step to ask awkward questions about an upsetting issue. Does that happen anymore? Well, the PCC has just found The Sunday Times of doing just that when a reporter used Facebook to make contact with [...]

Regional newspaper powerhouse Northcliffe Media has created Northcliffe Digital to – as you can guess – concentrate on digital. The new MD will be Mike Rowley and the new Content Strategy Director is none other than Robert Hardie. I’ve met them both and know they’re clued up in this space. Rowley told Journalism.co.uk, “One of [...]

The New York Times Company has abannoned their attempts to sell the loss-making Boston Globe. The company had been looking for a buyer over the last few months but had only ever managed to provoke a lukewarm response from possible buyers. Arthur Sulzberger Jr, chairman of The New York Times Company, told staff via email [...]

We’ve written about the NLA and their money making plans before on this blog. As a result of that post NLA’s PR agency started to interact with us and answered some questions. Speed’s Managing Director, Stepehn Waddington, has done a far better job at keeping the industry connected to the ‘debate’ with the NLA. His [...]

Following on from complaints against Google News from the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers the Italian Competition Authority has begun to investigate. The ICA searched Google’s Milan offices on Thursday morning. This led to a blog post from Google in their European Public Policy Blog in which Google points out they drive and take traffic [...]

Johnson Press are busy denying they’ll sell The Scotsman newspaper. The rebuttal follows an article in The Sunday Times by Iain Dey and James Ashton which headlined “Bid to buy The Scotsman from troubled Johnston Press”. Dey and Ashton put forward a piece in which Martin Gilbert, the CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management, Ben Thomson [...]

Chris Barnyard at Liberal Conspiracy asks “Will you miss it?” Perhaps the impending paywalls made the freesheet a difficult fit within the Murdoch empire. Or perhaps Rupert Murdoch has just given up on throwing money away. Either way, it marks another recent media failure, especially after the bad investment that myspace turned out to be. [...]

The Public Relations Consultants Association (that’s the PRCA to you and I) has started to take action against the Newspaper Licensing Agency. It has created a petition calling http://act.ly/d1 on the NLA to abandon their plan to charge organisations which forward snippets of newspaper articles or the URL to the article. If you’re not familiar [...]

In a post well worth reading Adam Westbrook as he shares intelligent thoughts on what the journalist of the future will look like. He talks about the invasion of PR guff and the failure to reject it. Most of all he cites the lack of time journalists have to do proper journalism these days. So [...]