Suggestions Wanted!!

Please feel free to send me any suggestions for posts on this blog.

The rules are fairly simple. It has to be relevant to Northcliffe Media Ltd. It can be radical and provocative but please….not crude or personally abusive. If you send me your ideas I will post them and await comments.

Comments are, at the moment, not moderated. Hopefully this can continue but I would ask that the language used is not extreme.

This blog could become an extremely useful way of getting your point across in a way which would not be possible otherwise. It is already being read by many people, at all levels, within NML.

My email address is nmlnews@hotmail.co.uk and I look forward to hearing from you.

The King of the Midlands

This week sees the departure of the formidable Ms Heather Wozniak from Tamworth. She is the last of the original Midland region’s centre managing directors inherited, ignored and demotivated by the mad and not so merry monarch of the Midlands, King Alex.

The king is now in total control and I, as a lowly peasant in the Midlands realm, am not the only one of the serfs who wonders what the plan is. Demotivation still seems to be the order of the day and it appears that the Emperor in Kensington, to use a popular catchphrase...... just isn't bovvered.....

Stop Press:

Rumour has it that the hottest bet in Nottingham is when the circulation figures will hit minus 15%!!

The Northcliffe Purpose

The "Northcliffe Purpose" is the new initiative intended to portray Northcliffe companies as local and friendly within their core areas, both too the public and too their own employees. Is it the latest two minute fad or will it change attitudes within what are now the mini fiefdoms of the Northcliffe Empire?

Regional managing directors now act independently of any substantive central control and the newspapers have been emasculated editorially by removing troublesome editors such as Mike Lowe of the Bristol Evening Post. Is it now possible to attain an ethos intended to revert the local centres back to all things “local” with a “family” feel when some regional MDs are so dictorial in their approach that it is well nigh impossible to retain or recruit good management teams to work with them?

Is the "slash and burn" mentality of Aim Higher truly in the past or do certain MDs still feel that quality is subservient to cost in many areas of their business?