i for ingenious
Wednesday, 06 April 2011 12:01
JACKIE KEMP from online publication "Journalist's Handbook" April 4 2011.
The i – a concise version of the Independent newspaper priced at a very reasonable 20 pence a day or £35 a year – appears to be doing rather well. ABC sales figures at the start of this year were around 130,000 and are reportedly heading for 160,000 now. That is double the number of people who subscribe to the Times website and, at a time when in many newspaper groups resources have been migrating from print to online editions, it presents an interesting idea.
Could it be that there is still some mileage in the hoary old newspaper? Could there be something too in this new, sexy concept of concision?
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Ultrasound, a Scots invention that emigrated
Monday, 07 February 2011 13:48
From the Herald 28 Dec 1995
Scots pioneered the technology and techniques for one of the most amazing pieces of medical equipment in hospitals today.
Yet, as Jackie Kemp discovers, lack of insight and investment meant that their innovation was ignored here and taken over by other countries.
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Pressure mounts on Scots
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 09:10
Media Guardian
Scotland's national newspapers are in crisis as readership falls, jobs are cut and London-based titles muscle in.
Scots, once the biggest consumers of newsprint in the world, are losing the habit, with the slump hitting home-grown titles the hardest. The writing could now be on the wall for one or all of the three daily Scotland-wide titles, the Scotsman, the Herald and the Daily Record.
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Last-ditch battle for the future of Edinburgh's historic waterfront
Sunday, 20 April 2008 11:16
As developers plan to make Scotland's capital's 15 per cent bigger, city architects draw up their own bid to save its cultural soul
A massive redevelopment of Edinburgh's waterfront which will increase the size of the city by almost 15 per cent is attracting widespread opposition.
The last and biggest phase of the project, turning almost 300 acres of docks into 16,000 homes, is expected to get outline planning permission in July. But critics are mounting a last-ditch attempt to get the project 'called in' for scrutiny by the Scottish government.
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The bar is half-empty
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:02
"Don't head off into town and spend a fortune on weekend-priced drinks, when you can come to your very own union instead. New this term: fantastic, better-than-ever drinks promotions - trebles+mixer (incl Red Bull) for £2.50 - new DJ line-up, stilt-walking, stage dancers and fire performers."
This rather desperate promotion for the Newcastle student union bar tells a story. Those who look back fondly on an old-style university education may remember passing long hours in a union bar offering perhaps little more in-house entertainment than hard chairs, cheap beer and intense conversation.
Fire dancers forsooth, older readers may shriek, surprised at the efforts that have to be made to lure students into the bars that are provided for them nowadays.
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