The news that that our regional ITV news coverage could be further eroded due to a shortage of advertising prompts fears of quality of output being compromised - particularly as it was not that long ago that a television news team in our region underwent the trauma of re-applying for their own positions and cutting jobs. As a former regional TV journalist with organisations including the BBC TV news in Manchester and  HTV, the announcement [...]

Having spent a delightful weekend in Paris, it gave me the opportunity to catch up on reading (tip: Small Island by Andrea Levy). Devouring this week’s Media Guardian highlighted several interesting articles – two covered the rise (and rise) in importance of PR versus advertising, which Richard Bailey has written about, and the falling circulations [...]