Tag: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

07:21 Friday 25th May 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: It was first published in 1961 at the Advertiser’s offices in Cumbergate, and it’s no more. The Peterborough Evening Telegraph weekly from tomorrow. It’s the last ever daily paper tomorrow. The changes mean readers will be able to subscribe to daily news via the internet, as well as get their weekly bumper edition on a Thursday. Well Roger Parry is the former Chairman of the Johnston Press, which owns the ET. He says, with the service going weekly and on-line, it’s meant people have lost their jobs. (TAPE)
ROGER PARRY: Very significant job cuts, unfortunately, both in terms of journalists and obviously in terms of advertising sales people and printers. Those jobs are probably never coming back, simply because the advertising that used to be there for the daily paper is never coming back. (LIVE)
PAUL STAINTON: Exciting times ahead for the new paper and the on-line version. Mark Edwards is the Editor of the ET. He’s with us now. Morning Mark.
MARK EDWARDS: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: As I said, exciting times ahead, but sad day as well, not just for the loss of the ET, but also some people are losing their jobs today. Continue reading “Weekly Edition and App. for the Peterborough Telegraph”

10:10 Tuesday 17th April 2012
Andy Harper Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

ANDY HARPER: We’re talking about local newspapers, after the proposed changes to the Evening Telegraph in Peterborough, no longer a daily paper at the end of next month, but will become a weekly. But there will be various ways of looking at it on-line. .. Let’s talk now to Barry Fitzpatrick, Deputy General Secretary of the NUJ. Barry, good morning to you.
BARRY FITZPATRICK: Good morning.
ANDY HARPER: Well I’ll put my cards on the table. I’m a newspaper fanatic, and I regard this as sad news, but it’s the way of the world isn’t it? Continue reading “The Biggest Threat to Newspapers is the Current Ownership Model”

08:08 Thursday 7th July 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: There’s no doubt what the top story is, the story that’s dominating all news agendas, all newspapers, and every media outlet. It’s the hacking story. .. Earlier we spoke to Ian Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigate Journalism. He said he would never condone the practices, if they are proven to be true. (TAPE)
IAN OVERTON: Certainly there is a fine boundary of what do you cross to get the story. Now nobody has gone as far as phone-tapping something that affects the judicial process, and I think that’s one of the problems here. In the Milly Dowler case, there was an ongoing investigation, and phone-tapping occurred, and messages purportedly were deleted. Now that is obviously a significant issue, if it turns out to be true.(LIVE)
PAUL STAINTON: Well yesterday the Prime Minister called the allegations of phone-hacking “absolutely disgusting”, and promised a full public inquiry. Let’s speak to Mark Edwards. He’s the editor of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Morning Mark
MARK EDWARDS: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: Newspapers under increasing pressure. We heard from Ian earlier this morning saying that part of the problem in his opinion is young people coming through, not learning the trade, thrust into the limelight, doing their work under extreme presure from espacially national newspaper editors to get the story. And they’re cutting corners. Continue reading “Mark Edwards Peterborough Evening Telegraph Editor on Journalistic Integrity”