| What is Ipswich.co.uk? 22:28 - Mar 26 with 1228 views | Mullet |
Local journos or something else?
Their piece on Ashton is worth a read https://www.ipswich.co.uk/arti
Sort of ties in with what I was musing about the City of Culture stuff and this fallout. Suspect the local community activists will be gunning for him too. |  |
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| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 00:38 - Mar 27 with 880 views | urbanpenguin |
I can't quite work it out. It appears to have been founded (according to Companies House) by Oliver Williams back in 2017, but has never turned enough money for proper accounts. All the articles seem to be written by the same guy, so not sure it's more than a glorified blog.
Not sure how they have a building on the high street, as a company rather than a charity they would normally have to pay for that.
This is not a diss, just factually trying to work them out. I think any local writing - journalism, blogging, websites - that disrupts and tests the broken local media landscape is good, and as an editor of my own publication I know what it means to "look" bigger than you are for legitimacy.
The writing on this piece was good, and useful. But not sure what the platform is, and not a lot on the URL helps explain the provenance or history. |  | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 01:13 - Mar 27 with 807 views | armchaircritic59 |
I get their local news email once every week. Very good and not owned by people thousands of miles away! |  | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:01 - Mar 27 with 534 views | thebooks |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 00:38 - Mar 27 by urbanpenguin |
I can't quite work it out. It appears to have been founded (according to Companies House) by Oliver Williams back in 2017, but has never turned enough money for proper accounts. All the articles seem to be written by the same guy, so not sure it's more than a glorified blog.
Not sure how they have a building on the high street, as a company rather than a charity they would normally have to pay for that.
This is not a diss, just factually trying to work them out. I think any local writing - journalism, blogging, websites - that disrupts and tests the broken local media landscape is good, and as an editor of my own publication I know what it means to "look" bigger than you are for legitimacy.
The writing on this piece was good, and useful. But not sure what the platform is, and not a lot on the URL helps explain the provenance or history. |
It’s a one-man operation. The guy’s a former Archant journalist.
The “angle” is a bit odd, local news that supports the town (whatever that means). I’d rather just have local news.
There is *a lot* of room for some proper journalism in the town, so maybe it’s to be applauded? But he churns out stuff using AI, unfortunately.
I know Manchester is a tiny bit different from Ipswich, but this is how you do local news these days:
https://manchestermill.co.uk/ |  | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:02 - Mar 27 with 508 views | Butterbing |
Good article that. |  | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:15 - Mar 27 with 455 views | BackToRussia |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:01 - Mar 27 by thebooks |
It’s a one-man operation. The guy’s a former Archant journalist.
The “angle” is a bit odd, local news that supports the town (whatever that means). I’d rather just have local news.
There is *a lot* of room for some proper journalism in the town, so maybe it’s to be applauded? But he churns out stuff using AI, unfortunately.
I know Manchester is a tiny bit different from Ipswich, but this is how you do local news these days:
https://manchestermill.co.uk/ |
What are the journalistic ethics of putting a real person's name on the byline of some AI slop? |  |
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| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:19 - Mar 27 with 417 views | urbanpenguin |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:15 - Mar 27 by BackToRussia |
What are the journalistic ethics of putting a real person's name on the byline of some AI slop? |
Yeah. Don't. Not a good look, but also no writer should want their name tarnished in that way. | | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:26 - Mar 27 with 369 views | thebooks |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:15 - Mar 27 by BackToRussia |
What are the journalistic ethics of putting a real person's name on the byline of some AI slop? |
I guess you could argue you're using AI to help write an article, but the final piece is checked, edited and published by a "real" journalist. It's not quite the same thing as leaving everything to AI and pumping articles out there based on prompts (which has indirectly lead to things like the Southport riots).
(I don't buy this personally: AI shouldn't be anywhere near journalism, but if it used you should explicitly state how.) | | | |
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| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:27 - Mar 27 with 349 views | Steve_M |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:01 - Mar 27 by thebooks |
It’s a one-man operation. The guy’s a former Archant journalist.
The “angle” is a bit odd, local news that supports the town (whatever that means). I’d rather just have local news.
There is *a lot* of room for some proper journalism in the town, so maybe it’s to be applauded? But he churns out stuff using AI, unfortunately.
I know Manchester is a tiny bit different from Ipswich, but this is how you do local news these days:
https://manchestermill.co.uk/ |
The paid for smallscale local news sites are interesting and a really positive development, I hope they last. Jim Watersons's London Centric has been similarly excellent:
https://www.londoncentric.medi
and the one in Sheffield has broken a big story about a dodgy solicitor called Milne (definitely not Ian!) defrauding tenants over lease renewals. |  |
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| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:31 - Mar 27 with 308 views | urbanpenguin |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:27 - Mar 27 by Steve_M |
The paid for smallscale local news sites are interesting and a really positive development, I hope they last. Jim Watersons's London Centric has been similarly excellent:
https://www.londoncentric.medi
and the one in Sheffield has broken a big story about a dodgy solicitor called Milne (definitely not Ian!) defrauding tenants over lease renewals. |
Jim is doing good things, yeah. And the Manchester Mill as mentioned is also a good example.
I think generally across media, more interesting things are done at a smaller, passionate and less pr'd level, but I would think that as I run my own small publication www.recessed.space! | | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:35 - Mar 27 with 275 views | thebooks |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:27 - Mar 27 by Steve_M |
The paid for smallscale local news sites are interesting and a really positive development, I hope they last. Jim Watersons's London Centric has been similarly excellent:
https://www.londoncentric.medi
and the one in Sheffield has broken a big story about a dodgy solicitor called Milne (definitely not Ian!) defrauding tenants over lease renewals. |
Yeah, there's some good stuff around, normally in bigger cities as it's easier to raise the user subs there. But that seems to be the model.
Eastern Bylines is OK as well.
The BBC's local democracy reporting service is useful, but of course they helped create the problem in the first place by gutting local news rooms.
I'd love to try and set something up in Ipswich that was like The Mill, but alas no time or money. | | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:38 - Mar 27 with 256 views | thebooks |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:31 - Mar 27 by urbanpenguin |
Jim is doing good things, yeah. And the Manchester Mill as mentioned is also a good example.
I think generally across media, more interesting things are done at a smaller, passionate and less pr'd level, but I would think that as I run my own small publication www.recessed.space! |
Nice. Always up for reading about Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative cartography! Subscribed to the RSS feed :-) | | | |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:47 - Mar 27 with 185 views | dryas |
| What is Ipswich.co.uk? on 08:31 - Mar 27 by urbanpenguin |
Jim is doing good things, yeah. And the Manchester Mill as mentioned is also a good example.
I think generally across media, more interesting things are done at a smaller, passionate and less pr'd level, but I would think that as I run my own small publication www.recessed.space! |
Thanks for the link - I've enjoyed reading some of the articles this morning when I should be working. I used to take geography students on a field trip to Brussels and we'd always go and take a look at Kanal. The cartography of Ursula Le Guin is a good read too, especially as I'm a geographer. |  | | |
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