Comments on: Big changes for The Birmingham Post – reaction round-up

By: Its not all work, work, work, you know « Groves Media

Its not all work, work, work, you know « Groves Media — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:05:47 +0000

[...] expect, reaction from within the industry has been quite comprehensive and a pretty mixed bag – Joanna Geary, The Birmingham’s Post’s Development Editor has an excellent round-up on her own [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:56:13 +0000

Hi Joana,

Thanks for the link!

We are wondering what this means for the future of regional journalism?
Profit before quality doesn’t make sense.

I would of thought that your title would of lead on the reasons for the action in order to lead the story, be hey we understand that this subject has its “politics” (understatement of the century.)

I guess the above story time line just goes to show how quickly news breaks with the bloggers…

Matt @ PRbristol

By: joannageary

joannageary — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:37 +0000

@Paul Groves

I suppose the issue was that we were all told about this at the same time – the whole editorial floor in Birmingham, plus all the weekly editorial staff.

But yes, I see your point.

By: Paul Groves

Paul Groves — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:28:08 +0000

Point taken. But it would still be possible to write in advance and time it to appear when everyone else there is being told.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:24:30 +0000

Thanks for round up, and all your Twitter updates. My old fashioned view is it’s a sad day when news of excellent journalists potentially losing their livelihoods isn’t deemed as important for ‘industry insider’ readers as what size a paper is going to be. Good luck to everyone, and I hope they can prosper wherever they end up.

By: joannageary

joannageary — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:19:55 +0000

I guess the answer is that other news organisations didn’t have to make the presentation this morning – it was our editors!

There is stuff that will be put up in the next few hours. Keep an eye on the Post News Blog, for example.

By: Paul Groves

Paul Groves — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:13 +0000

There are loads of questions.
But one of my immediate thoughts is why is there so much more information on other sites about these radical changes than on TM’s own titles – particularly the Post – in the Midlands?
Surely this would have been a good chance to make full use of the new website, blogs etc and put a positive spin on what is a major announcement, rather than have others do it for you?

(I know I need to be asking the editor these rather than firing them at you, but still waiting for his blog to appear).