Leeds Media Thread

[Val Verde]

Originally Posted by STOPGO

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...scraps-editors

Also the Halifax Courier is being reduced to once weekly publication with apparently improvements made to online content although why would anyone want to buy a newspaper that comes out once weekly with internet alternatives available although it must surely be bad news for newsagents in the Halifax area. I wonder if a merger with the Huddersfield Examiner was considered in a bid to retain daily publication (Pennine Courier and Examiner perhaps anyone).

Also I wonder how much of a future there is for street sellers of the Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds City Centre considering I hardly ever see any one buy the YEP from someone on street as opposed to a shop. Still the decline of newspapers is inevitable with the internets growth, as I personally never buy newspapers anymore preferring to read articles online.

[Shiny_Dave]

LOL! aka Leedsonline is now well err online

[STOPGO]

Good find Shiny Dave, like the look of the website might make up in a small way for the loss of The Leeds Guide.

[Leeds No.1]

It's run by Hebe Media, and has been going for quite a long time, just via Facebook rather than on a standalone website. I think it'll fill the place of GuardianLeeds more than The Leeds Guide though.

[STOPGO]

Actually, the Guardian Leeds blog is still going under the Guardian Northerner title the latest update feature a rather nice in depth look at the career of John Thorp.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-nor...e-city-council

[Leeds No.1]

Not quite- the Northerner was going before GuardianLeeds.

The main thing filling its place has been BGL- Beyond Guardian Leeds, which is essentially the same product.

[STOPGO]

Originally Posted by Leeds No.1

Not quite- the Northerner was going before GuardianLeeds.

The main thing filling its place has been BGL- Beyond Guardian Leeds, which is essentially the same product.

The Northerner is the Guardian Leeds in that it under the Guardian banner with the Leeds news edited by Martin Wainwright. Beyond Guardian is independent of any sponsorship and thus as nothing to with the Guardian newspaper.

[Leeds No.1]

yeah but I mean BGL is written by some of the editors that wrote Guardian Leeds. Martin Wainwright always wrote for Northerner not GuardianLeeds. John Baron now does Leeds Online.

[STOPGO]

Originally Posted by Leeds No.1

yeah but I mean BGL is written by some of the editors that wrote Guardian Leeds. Martin Wainwright always wrote for Northerner not GuardianLeeds. John Baron now does Leeds Online.

I posted the link to the Guardian Northerner because I thought that the article on John Thorpe might be of interest to you and other contributors to this forum. Sadly this doesn't seen to be the case where you are concerned has all your following posts are more concerned with point scoring and nit picking. I don't know why you always seem to have this attitude and why you can't be positive about other peoples posts instead of picking them apart.

[oyster]

You're a loose cannon sometimes, STOPGO.

[Leeds No.1]

Mmhmm, just pointing out it's not Guardian Leeds.

[STOPGO]

Originally Posted by Leeds No.1

Mmhmm, just pointing out it's not Guardian Leeds.

What makes that so important for you in your view to keep pointing that point out ? why not post something about the John Thorpe interview or if you have read it or have been to the actual event ether add something about it or make no comment at all.

[Suburban Knight]

Looks like somebody got up on the wrong side of bed this morning....

[Val Verde]

Publishers of newspapers The Johnston Press who publish local newspapers including the Yorkshire Post, the Yorkshire Evening Post and the Halifax Evening Courier reported a loss of £143.8m in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...iness-17836535

Certainly a huge loss and it makes you wonder what the long term future for local newspapers will be considering the long term decline in readers and move to reading online. It also makes me wonder how a single company in this day and age can viably single handedly own 300 different newspapers up and down the UK.

Wonder if further cuts as seen recently with the Halifax Evening Courier (which is being reduced to once weekly publication) could occur? Would certainly be a big loss for Leeds if it is to loose it's daily newspapers.

[mike okane]

Quote:Looks like somebody got up on the wrong side of bed this morning...

The weather's not helping is it?, all this dull depressing rain. Must be like living in...
hell!

[di Livio]

Brace yourselves for The Secret Millionaire on Monday, where a guy from Alwoodley is carjacked in Beeston/Hunslet.

Also, read about a Seacroft woman who abandoned her two dogs (a mother and daughter) in Harehills, leaving them to wallow in their own excrement while drinking their own urine to survive. The dogs were imaginateviely named 'Tequila' and 'Stella'.

This is why I'm trying to get out of Leeds.

[LeedsLad]

Which Utopia you escaping to?

[Aaronj09]

Yes, please tell us which city you have discovered that lacks any social issues and deprivation at all whatsoever, I think we'd all join you in moving there!

[oyster]

You'd certainly struggle to find another large city, but you could move to somewhere more rural, decent outer suburbs or a nice town...

[di Livio]

Getting stuck in Harehills traffic during Monday to Friday is bad for the soul.

Telling line from the Secret Millionaire - "any sign of weakness and they'll 'ave you".
But at least the programme makers made a distinction between affluent suburbs and deprived inner city areas.