VentnorBlog, the well-established Isle of Wight news blog, found itself thrown out of a coroner’s court on Tuesday.
Coroner officer Richard Leedham told Simon Perry of the VentnorBlog, who is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and who has been writing VB for over four years, that the coroner did not wish him to be in the court â€" as a journalist or as a member of the public.
Continue reading Local news blogger refused entry to coroner’s court at Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog.
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As an ex-NUJ member and hyperlocal blogger myself, I understand the reluctance of Dickensian agencies with civil service structural inertia, such as Coroners’ Offices, to trust anything that isn’t in their mainstream horizon. Question is; are they happy to shut down on broadcasting (as traditional news sources falter and fold), or will they embrace the digital reality and all the opportunities that it brings?