« Doom and gloom | Adrian Seal Blog : Editor - Uxbridge Gazette Homepage | Annoyed and angry »
August 7, 2007
Competition headache
It's been a bit of a mad dash to the finishing line today for this week's Gazette - but we got there in the end.
For early August it has been a surprisingly busy news week with a number of big topics for the newsdesk to tackle.
These have included the impact locally of the foot and mouth outbreak, BAA's court challenge to prevent protest around Heathrow Airport during Camp Climate and Mayor Ken Livnigstone's decision to kill of the tramlink for West London.
The end product is a strong paper with some hard hitting news stories and, in my opinion, one of the best issues we have produced for several weeks.
However, I am slightly concerned that the recent fine weather might have driven a lot of people to take last minute breaks in this country and this could be reflected in the sales figures.
I have been proved wrong on several recent occasions with my predictions for sales of the paper so I will be interested to see the figures in a couple of weeks time.
Having finally seen the paper away I have now got caught up with someone who wants to run a competition in the paper for readers to win Barbie Girls consoles - what ever they might be.
I have got involved because we currently don't have anyone to look after our competitions and promotions. It's a task I would love to delegate but somehow I don't think there will be any takers and I just know that it's going to cause me a headache one way or other.
Who says that an editor's life isn't varied!
Posted by aseal at August 7, 2007 2:40 PM