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Why you should enter the LDP Regional Business Awards, 2010
Posted by Mark Thomas on March 11, 2010 6:46 PM
On Thursday May 24, 2010, the business elite of Merseyside will gather at the Liverpool Cathedral for what promises to be a truly memorable evening.
It is of course the 18th annual LDP Regional Business Awards in association with KPMG and DLA Piper and this is your opportunity to be involved.
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We have right to know why James Bulger killer is back behind bars
Posted by Mark Thomas on March 3, 2010 9:07 AM
The most worrying aspect of the way the authorities are dealing with the latest disturbing developments in the James Bulger case isn't what they are telling us, but what they are keeping secret.
As the author of the definitive book on the murder, working as I did in close cooperation both with James's family and the police murder squad, I can probably claim with some justification to know as much as any journalist about the case itself. Yet even I have not been able to follow developments in the adult lives of the two killers, such were the draconian restrictions imposed by the courts on coverage of their lives.
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LiveRead, the Liverpool Daily Post online literary festival
Posted by Mark Thomas on February 26, 2010 11:38 AM
Have you checked out the plans for our exciting new online literary festival LiveRead yet?
See my video introduction to it, here.
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New-look Liverpool Daily Post launches on Monday
Posted by Mark Thomas on February 5, 2010 3:43 PM
Busy times in the newsroom today, as we put the finishing touches to the new-look Liverpool Daily Post, which launches on Monday.
We are changing the masthead, giving our pages a stylish makeover, building the prominence of some key elements of the newspaper and introducing some exciting new writers.
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Crystal ball-gazing into an uncertain media future
Posted by Mark Thomas on November 20, 2009 5:56 PM
Many of you will be aware of the kind of challenges that are besetting the newspaper and broadcasting industries at the moment.
The digital revolution has seen a large scale migration of a lot of the advertising revenue that would once have found its way into newspapers into new online platforms. Meanwhile reading patterns have changed, with less people, particularly among the young, finding the time or inclination to buy and read a paper.
Add to that the economic crisis the world tumbled into last year, leading to drastic cut-backs in advertising revenues, and you had what was more or less a perfect storm.
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Penguins, Superlambananas - and a stunning setting
Posted by Mark Thomas on July 6, 2009 7:14 PM
Just back in the office after attending the launch of the Go Penguins event, Liverpool's next big public art project to follow on from the Go Superlambananas extravaganza last summer.
It looks like it is going to be something special, and will be a big attraction to keep children entertained in the Christmas holidays.
To hear more from the artistic team behind it, check it out for yourself
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Death of Michael Jackson
Posted by Mark Thomas on June 26, 2009 4:30 PM
When the office rang me last night to break the news that Michael Jackson was being rushed to hospital, the first instinct, I'm afraid, was to suspect a publicity stunt.
Within the hour, of course, it was clear that this was a very genuine, and terribly sad, story, and that one of the true icons of the pop music industry was dead.
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Tweeting from Shanghai
Posted by Mark Thomas on May 29, 2009 4:17 PM
Liverpool is one of only two UK cities, the other being London, to exhibit at the Shanghai Expo in 2010, which is expected to attract 70m visitors and could generate £50m for the city in the next 10 years.
I'm currently in Shanghai on a fact-gathering trip ahead of the Expo and I'll be blogging in detail on what I've discovered when I return.
In the meantime, you can follow the live blog below, which I will be tweeting to from the Far East as I'm able, along with Martyn Best from Paver Smith.
You can find out more about the Expo here.
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