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    The crisis in local newspapers: public funding?

    WHAT next for local newspapers struggling to cope with the impact of the internet and the loss of advertising revenue due to the recession? One answer comes from politicians in Wales who are calling for public funding for new community newspapers. They believe, with some...

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    Salford students get ‘social’ – and show their entrepreneurial flair!

    STUDENTS from a Salford college came up with their own enterprising plans after being given a unique insight into social businesses. They developed a range of new ideas for social businesses locally, based around the environment, youth and sports facilities after spending the day finding...

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  • Manchester Evening News

    The worst headline of the week…

    SOUND Communication today proudly announces its (slightly intermittent) Annual Media Awards…. And already the nominations are flowing in. Step forward the Manchester Evening News, the first print publication to win a prized gong. For the most crass, offensive and distasteful contribution to the subject of...

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  • gushaynes

    The Wire – Baltimore v Liverpool v Manchester…and not forgetting the media

    SHADOW Home Secretary Chris Grayling has been rightly castigated for his intemperate remarks which compared Liverpool and Manchester with the American city of Baltimore depicted in TV’s cult series, The Wire. Grayling suggested that the level of lawlessness in the two Northern cities was comparable...

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    The BBC blunders over George Alagiah and the Fairtrade Foundation

    IS the BBC in favour of unfair trade? That’s the question after the Corporation forced newscaster George Alagiah to quit as patron of the Fairtrade Foundation, a registered charity. Seems the Beeb thought there would be some conflict of interest because Alagiah, who is unpaid...

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  • liverpool_echo

    100 jobs axed as Liverpool Echo moves printing to Oldham

    THE presses will roll for the last time at the Liverpool Echo on Saturday morning as printing is transferred 40 miles outside the city, to Oldham. More than 100 jobs have been axed in the cost-cutting move by owners Trinity Mirror, which on Thursday announced...

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    Victory for jobs and journalists!

    CONGRATULATIONS  to journalists at Trinity Mirror in the Midlands for averting threatened compulsory redundancies at their newspapers. The threat of a one-day strike by journalists this Thursday, seems to have brought Trinity bosses to their senses. The strike has now been called off after Trinity,...

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  • youtube

    YouTube insight into corporate advertising

    EVER wondered how the giant corporate Public Relations and advertising agencies win business? Now you can get a valuable comedy insight, courtesy of YouTube (or ‘MyTube’ as perhaps it should now become known). Congratulations to Jon Mason, aka Jollywise, for his hysterical take on the...

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  • edBalls

    It’s not the internet – its Balls!

    A FASCINATING insight into the workings of Government is provided by the right-wing Spectator magazine in its blog ‘Coffee House’. It tells how Cabinet Minister Ed Balls, a close confidante of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, rang up the magazine’s political editor, Fraser Nelson, to complain...

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  • Salford’s Unlimited Potential first in North West to win Social Enterprise Mark

    Salford’s Unlimited Potential first in North West to win Social Enterprise Mark

    A SALFORD social enterprise has become the first in the North West to win the prestigious Social Enterprise Mark. The fair-trade style Mark has been awarded to Unlimited Potential, after it demonstrated that its work benefitted local people, rather than anonymous shareholders or owners. Profits...

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