A few days ago I met up with some former colleagues from my days as an online journalist which is where we all got to know each other, and have remained friends ever since. We originally met back in 1999, and had all arrived there after lengthy careers working for newspapers in all corners of the UK.

The company we worked for moved away from delivering self-generated news, which saw us all having to leave over about a 12 month period. I opted to go into public relations, while everyone else returned to newspaper world, and being more settled, they stayed in Yorkshire taking jobs with regional newspapers.

Even back in 1999 it was evident that the newspaper world was going to have come to terms with the emerging digital world, meaning it would have to adapt or die. Ten years on and it’s looking very much like many papers could go to the wall as they’ve largely ignored the warning signs. Read the rest of this entry »