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The Mail
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:01 pm
by barrowscuba
I was told that the Mail had no reporter at Saturday's game. I can't see any match update on their website either.
The demise since they were sold is a sad tale with a fair few either taking redundancy or being pushed. The club has enjoyed unprecedented coverage over the years. Is it all about to end? Clubs at our level need all the media coverage they can get.
Re: The Mail
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:26 pm
by Jim
It’s a long time since some of us used to get the ‘Green un’ at 6 o clock on a Sat evening to read Bob Herbert’s match report
Re: The Mail
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:34 pm
by Bingo
Print media is dying.. I did see on twitter tho some guy said he was starting as the Barrow afc correspont on the mail next week
Re: The Mail
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:25 pm
by BahamasBluebird
The mail didn't have a reporter there on Saturday, but they did have a photographer and I did the report which I'm guessing will be in the paper tomorrow.
They have a new BAFC reporter who starts tomorrow, we have invited him to come up to the FBSS to have a look around etc ready for Tuesday, and hopefully it will be the continuation of some great coverage for the club.
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:29 am
by HenneysKnee
I’ve no idea how they’ve kept going as a daily paper for so long tbh
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:36 am
by Colin Appleton
I think the Mail's days as a daily are numbered most local papers are now sadly weekly. The thickness of a paper is determined by how much advertising it carries. You can always tell a paper is in trouble when it gets thinner. I think the paper is now printed would you believe in Scotland. As for Barrow reporter's am I right in thinking Mike Young who covered the club during the dark days of the early seventies now lives in the Blackpool area ?
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:56 am
by SKIPPER
Good job there was no reporter there on Saturday otherwise we would have had 'Goodygate' splashed all over the front page !
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:13 am
by Big E
Colin Appleton wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:36 am
I think the Mail's days as a daily are numbered most local papers are now sadly weekly. The thickness of a paper is determined by how much advertising it carries. You can always tell a paper is in trouble when it gets thinner. I think the paper is now printed would you believe in Scotland. As for Barrow reporter's am I right in thinking Mike Young who covered the club during the dark days of the early seventies now lives in the Blackpool area ?
Yep, and still attends regularly, stands by me on the popular side. Got to know him when he covered the northern league cricket for the blackpool gazette, lovely bloke.
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:27 am
by Colin Appleton
Thanks for that Ian such a shame he'd left by the time you were starring for Barrow Celtic and Roose Cricket ...otherwise no doubt you'd have been grabbing all the headlines..ha
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:42 pm
by JayStar
What happened to Paul Turner(?) is he one of the one's who resigned/was made redundant?
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:35 pm
by Big E
Colin Appleton wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:27 am
Thanks for that Ian such a shame he'd left by the time you were starring for Barrow Celtic and Roose Cricket ...otherwise no doubt you'd have been grabbing all the headlines..ha
hahaha, not sure some of things that happened at roose with those lads would have been fit for publication!! What goes on tour....
Re: The Mail
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:35 pm
by barrowfan
JayStar wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:42 pm
What happened to Paul Turner(?) is he one of the one's who resigned/was made redundant?
Moved on to take a media job at Lancaster University I think.
Re: The Mail
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 8:38 am
by Wintergreen
I looked at an online feature showing the results of a photographic competition; the photographs were very good but the captions were shocking; a bridge over some water, a sunset, a pretty flower, some mountains etc. Honestly, the school magazine would have thrown it out.
