THE UK PRESS GAZETTE CRISIS

Let me start saying that I have been a regular subscriber of this old fashion trade magazine.

And always I had the impression that was as bad andf soft as the US Editor&Publisher.

Like E&P, as soon as the UKPG started to do independent reporting... media companies and advertisers did not like the approach.

Well, nothing new for trade publications as their audiences are their advertisers.

So, now the new owners of the UKPG want to create and independent Trust in order to survive.

I am sorry, but I don't see why they are going to fund a publication that they are not going to be able to control.

But more important that that.

Like many other ex-readers of these publications, I don't subscribe anymore to these print magazines.

Internet and the media blogs provide today a lot of information on real time.

E&P is now a monthly print magazine.

Perhaps UKPG must do the same.

But the era of media gatekeepers is gone.