ANTON RIPPON on the vindication for a campaigning local newspaper, and a vindication for local newspapers generally…
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Category: Regional newspapers
The day Fenella’s mystery admirer went for a Burton
Life on local newspapers, especially in district offices, used to be conducted at a different pace. And sometimes from a different planet, as ANTON RI…
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Hard Times as photographers face Catch-22
"With newspapers and publishers telling sports photographers that the going rate is thruppence a week or zilch, it is of no surprise to me that our pa…
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Shooting the messengers won’t alter Millwall
"No one likes us, we don't care"? ANTON RIPPON on the dilemma for sports writers covering their local football club…
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Crawley’s Barker making headlines for wrong reasons
ANTON RIPPON adds some perspective to the dispute in Crawley that has seen the local reporter "banned" by the football club because they took a dislik…
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Club bans reporter because they didn’t like the headlines
“The Crawley News has effectively been given an ultimatum – change our reporter if we want to speak to Richie Barker and his players"…
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Locals’ cut-backs leave snappers out of pocket
ANTON RIPPON reports on the trend for local newspapers to use photographers' work without payment…
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Now paywall will rise with The Sun in the mornings
ANTON RIPPON on significant announcements about the websites at The Sun and Telegraph; plus more bad news from The Scotsman…
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For one night only … Oldham revives dying tradition
ANTON RIPPON reports on tonight's brief revival of an old sports journalism tradition…
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Barnsley sports editor arrested over exes fiddle
By Anton Rippon Times are certainly changing in our industry. When Barnsley Chronicle sports editor, Andrew Lodge, was caught claiming car mileage for…
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