David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 22 June, 2010 at 12:25 pm. It's been filed in the business + journalism + manchester category . {2 Comments}
Here are a few instantaneous thoughts on the sad closure of Crain’s Manchester Business, which was announced today. As a local business journalist who was very occasionally (ahem) scooped by the paper, it goes without saying that I have lots of respect for their journalists. But here’s a few quick thoughts on what went wrong:
1. They didn’t [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 16 May, 2010 at 6:29 pm. It's been filed in the business + food + journalism category . {3 Comments}
I don’t really get the point – journalistically, poetically, metaphorically or otherwise – of the Observer’s 3,000-word Miranda Sawyer-authored feature on the joy of Nando’s today. The feelgood piece, with the headline How Nando’s conquered Britain, is the type of advertising money can’t by, as Sawyer mooches around a couple of branches of the restaurant chain [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 19 September, 2009 at 10:05 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + journalism category . {Comment}
Apologies for not getting back to you. I’m here now, it’s OK.
I’ve been thinking a lot about newspapers recently. About how I never buy one anymore except when I’m going on a long train journey, about the supposed closure of the Observer (which isn’t now happening), about what I can’t help thinking is gross mismanagement [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 11 August, 2009 at 6:24 pm. It's been filed in the blogging + business + pr category . {Comment}
Look at this picture I captured from the news earlier. I’m surprised the BBC allowed Michael O’Leary, boss of “low-cost” airline Ryanair, on air in this get-up. The point is to publicise some new routes from Leeds to fifty miles outside a number of European cities. In the most shameless and embarrassing way possible.
I actually [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 24 July, 2009 at 9:03 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + pr category . {1 Comment}
There’s something a tiny bit contemptuous about Asda’s response to the recent story that its £70 flat-pack bike is only slightly less dangerous than an un-earthed electric chair standing in a puddle downwind from Niagara Falls on a moderately blustery day.
Mark Brown, director of the Association of Cycle Traders, noticed that in the TV advert, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 27 April, 2009 at 9:53 pm. It's been filed in the business + journalism + manchester + television category . {Comment}
When Guardian Media Group’s MEN Media announced last month that it was cutting a load of jobs at the Manchester Evening News and closing several local newspaper offices, there was a feeling from the NUJ and some staff that one of the reasons for the severity of the cuts was to protect Channel M. As [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 24 April, 2009 at 8:29 pm. It's been filed in the business + journalism + politics category . {Comment}
I keep reading that the new 50% income tax rate unveiled in the Budget on Wednesday is going to lead to a “brain drain” of which we should all be dreadfully afraid. Apparently, all the clever people who earn more than £150,000 a year are threatening to leave the country, with catastrophic consequences.
The Telegraph reports [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 29 March, 2009 at 8:34 pm. It's been filed in the business + journalism category . {Comment}
Interesting to see the Sunday Express has focused specifically on “adult films” in its story today about Jacqui Smith’s abuse of her expense account. Amid a wealth of details about what the Home Secretary has spent public money on, late-night pay-per-view porn has presumably been flagged up for the headline on the basis that it [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 26 January, 2009 at 6:25 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + journalism + manchester category . {Comment}
Crain’s this week has a nice story about “council and quango chiefs” spending “hundreds of thousands of pounds” of public money travelling by first class train. The editor’s comment bemoans
the first-class gravy train
and
free gin and tonic for fat cats.
It’s a nice story that’s bound to cause a justified outbreak of tutting among the Manchester accountants and lawyers whose travel [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 20 January, 2009 at 9:40 pm. It's been filed in the business + football + sport category . {1 Comment}
I can’t help but find the whole situation with Man City and Kaka deeply amusing, especially following today’s foot-stamping session from City chief executive Garry Cook.
As a Liverpool fan, I’ve never had any particular grudge against City. In fact, the air of genial nuttiness that seems to surround the club and its fans is rather [...]