Tagging too far

Some very interesting comments from Newsquest's digital MD being reported by Press Gazette.

Roger Green was non too complimentary about local paper's attempts to engage with the community using online devices.

Speaking at AOP’s Micro-local Forum, he gave a candid assessment of how he believed online technologies were inefficiently used by local newspapers.
He mocked the unnecessary geo-tagging of stories where location did not play an important factor, suggesting it wasn’t necessary for stories about "the launch of a pet insurance policy" to be plotted in this manner. "I mean honestly, what’s the point of that?"

Newsqust launches new hyperlocal sites

Nerwquest has announced plans to widen its hyperlocal community news sections across a range of its titles in the West Midlands.(ht-Jon Slattery)

The first local modules are 24 linked through the Kidderminster Shuttle and will be followed by six other titles in the Stourbridge News, Halesowen News, Dudley News, Bromsgrove Advertiser, Redditch Advertiser, and Droitwich Advertiser, in the coming months.

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Newsquest to outsource

Guardian media is reporting outsourcing at work at Newquest.

The Company

has told prepress staff at some of its titles that their jobs will be outsourced to India.
Prepress staff at papers in Sussex and Wiltshire, who design ads and check editorial pages before they are sent to the printers, have been told their positions are at risk.
Newsquest Sussex, publisher of Brighton's Argus newspaper, announced that 21 jobs will go as work is outsourced to a third-party supplier, Express KCS, an American company with operations in India.