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New-look Liverpool Daily Post launches on Monday
Posted by Mark Thomas on February 5, 2010 3:43 PM
Busy times in the newsroom today, as we put the finishing touches to the new-look Liverpool Daily Post, which launches on Monday.
We are changing the masthead, giving our pages a stylish makeover, building the prominence of some key elements of the newspaper and introducing some exciting new writers.
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Crystal ball-gazing into an uncertain media future
Posted by Mark Thomas on November 20, 2009 5:56 PM
Many of you will be aware of the kind of challenges that are besetting the newspaper and broadcasting industries at the moment.
The digital revolution has seen a large scale migration of a lot of the advertising revenue that would once have found its way into newspapers into new online platforms. Meanwhile reading patterns have changed, with less people, particularly among the young, finding the time or inclination to buy and read a paper.
Add to that the economic crisis the world tumbled into last year, leading to drastic cut-backs in advertising revenues, and you had what was more or less a perfect storm.
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Penguins, Superlambananas - and a stunning setting
Posted by Mark Thomas on July 6, 2009 7:14 PM
Just back in the office after attending the launch of the Go Penguins event, Liverpool's next big public art project to follow on from the Go Superlambananas extravaganza last summer.
It looks like it is going to be something special, and will be a big attraction to keep children entertained in the Christmas holidays.
To hear more from the artistic team behind it, check it out for yourself
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Death of Michael Jackson
Posted by Mark Thomas on June 26, 2009 4:30 PM
When the office rang me last night to break the news that Michael Jackson was being rushed to hospital, the first instinct, I'm afraid, was to suspect a publicity stunt.
Within the hour, of course, it was clear that this was a very genuine, and terribly sad, story, and that one of the true icons of the pop music industry was dead.
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Tweeting from Shanghai
Posted by Mark Thomas on May 29, 2009 4:17 PM
Liverpool is one of only two UK cities, the other being London, to exhibit at the Shanghai Expo in 2010, which is expected to attract 70m visitors and could generate £50m for the city in the next 10 years.
I'm currently in Shanghai on a fact-gathering trip ahead of the Expo and I'll be blogging in detail on what I've discovered when I return.
In the meantime, you can follow the live blog below, which I will be tweeting to from the Far East as I'm able, along with Martyn Best from Paver Smith.
You can find out more about the Expo here.
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Good luck to Everton in the FA Cup Final at Wembley
Posted by Mark Thomas on May 28, 2009 9:01 PM
Well, the great exodus of Evertonians to London for the FA Cup Final is starting. Between now and Saturday, tens of thousands of football fans will be heading for London to watch the big match at Wembley.
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Welcome to our brave new editorial world...
Posted by Mark Thomas on February 24, 2009 4:00 PM
I am sitting surrounded by a quite remarkable blur of activity, in our new-look newsroom, on day three of our new editorial structure.
We have been producing the Liverpool Daily Post, our sister title the Liverpool Echo, and a host of weekly newspapers using a radical new system since Sunday.
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Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Statement - will it help?
Posted by Mark Thomas on November 24, 2008 5:53 PM
The big headlines in today's pre-budget statement had been so well trailed in "leaks" to the Sunday papers and the BBC that the reduction in VAT to 15% and the planned increase in income tax for high earners to 45p in the pound came as no surprise this afternoon.
The VAT move will free up £12.5bn for consumers, always assuming that retailers are a bit fairer with their customers than the banking community and pass the reductions on in full. That has to be good news, both for the retail and manufacturing sectors.
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