Tim Dawson
Summary
Tim Dawson is a reporter and feature writer whose work has appeared in the Sunday Times for the past fifteen years. He is a former Scotland correspondent for the New Statesman and has worked as a reporter for People Weekly. You can email him at: tim@timdawsn.demon.co.uk
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Eastern promise – but will Mustard serve up real meat?
East Anglian broadcasting has long been the butt of the nation’s jokes. Ask those unfamiliar with Norfolk and Suffolk, who is Norwich’s most famous son, and ‘Alan Partridge’ is dependably their reply. Steve Coogan’s hapless sports jock (BBC 1991 -, Sky) might be even be credited with putting Norwich on the map, were it not that the city’s reputation as a provincial laughing stock co-existing in the popular imagination with an inability to describe its actual location.
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Inspired union: strategies for journalism to flourish
NUJ freelances displayed an innovative range of strategies to survive and prosper at a one-day conference. A capacity audience packed the event to hear from more than twenty speakers describing initiatives including: instant-video documentary making, selling into new foreign markets, self-publishing via Kindle, and creating iPad app publications.
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Animal Magic – photo app sells in the thousands
Perusing Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols’ iPad app is to see his famed work for National Geographic come alive. There are more than 30 galleries of pictures from assignments over the past three decades, videos and expedition mementos, all are presented with the kind of slick quality that one might expect from National Geographic itself.
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Perfect pitch – publisher invites the public to vote with their wallets
“The books industry has been very poor at getting money off people who love its products”, says John Mitchinson, the founder of crowd-funded publisher Unbound. He promises to revolutionise both the financing of book production and the relationship between authors and readers; and over the past year has raised enough money from online pledges to turn 18 ideas into ‘beautifully produced volumes’.
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Status politics: could local newspapers be allowed to become charities?
With a UK Communications Bill White Paper expected in early 2013, there is a growing hope that one of its provisions might be to make it easier for local newspapers to operate as charities. A consortium of charities and trusts has already made a submission to this effect to the Department for Culture Media and Sport to this effect.
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iPad sailing magazine trims its sails
Eighteen months after launch, Justin Chisholm’s iPad magazine sailracing’s app has been downloaded 85,000 times and he is close to employing an advertising sales director. Nevertheless, he has ascended a steep learning curve since producing his launch issue.
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Martin Lewis claims journalism’s greatest reward
Martin Lewis’ sale of moneysavingexpert. com for £87m is possibly the UK’s most astonishing piece of journalism as entrepreneurialism ever.
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Video is the crowd puller of the future
Staci Perry – a knitting instructor from Austin, Texas – might not sound like the most typical new media entrepreneur. But she has used her instructional videos on YouTube to attract 10,000 subscribers, who have viewed her content more than three million times. Not only that, but the videos act as a spur to promote sales of the $8 knitting patterns that she sells via her website VeryPink.
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The places that the tablets can’t reach
Rupert Murdoch’s reputation as a media visionary might have taken a battering in recent months. His famed enthusiasm for iPads as a news deliver device, however, is beginning to look as if it might yet prove to be as shrewd as his gamble as the one that he made on subscription tv two decades ago.
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Student newspaper iPad edition blazes a trail
As many publications struggle to adapt their offer for the download era, students in Yorkshire have provided an object lesson in creating digital product. Leeds Student, the award-winning weekly tabloid serving Leeds University, has become the first student newspaper with an iPad edition.
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