Soulboy wrote:
Mike Barnett?
What a tosser.
Details are slightly hazy in the memory, but I thought Mike Barnett lost the City mag gig years ago. IIRC, he was critical of one or two of the players in a piece he did for the MEN about one of the Old Trafford derbies; the players were upset about it and agreed to boycott his interviews, making his position with the mag more or less untenable.
David Clayton has been the editor for ages, and still is as far as I'm aware. Barnett was a freelance, but Clayton at some point became employed by the club, I think, and he writes for the website as well. There's a whole team of them who provide content for the website and other club publications, and I noticed recently on Chris Bailey's Twitter profile that he's now billed as Head of Content.
There was talk that they were going to make an important appointment of a Head of Media this summer, who would be part of the executive team (i.e. the level of Marwood, Glick when he arrives, Wallace, Kloss et al). Presumably if such a person arrives, this will be Bailey's line manager.
Media is certainly a very, very important part of how the current ownership is seeking to drive the club forward. No doubt consolidating the club's printed publications into one is a part of the strategy. There's definitely logic to that approach, but there's no point in ditching the baby with the bathwater and getting rid of one of the best parts of the existing set up.
Gary James wrote:
Not great news for me apparently. Although I had nothing to do with MANC mag it seems from the rumours I've heard that I'm now being dropped from the match prog as MANC editorial/content will take over the prog.
So after over a decade of regular articles on history and very popular interviews with former players, fans and celebrities my time at the programme appears to be over. It's a shame as the programme has a great record of achievement at the national programme awards and has been pretty popular with fans (in comparison with those of other clubs) for a few years now.
They'll presumably continue to run articles on history, interviews with former players and celebrity fans, and so on. It would be very disappointing if they do decide to dispense with the person who's been delivering that successfully over the last few years to bring it in house. There's no one there, not Bailey or Clayton or the others, who has your qualifications to write on the historical side, so one would hope that they'd recognise that and use you where appropriate. And you deserve better than to have to listen to rumours about proposed changes. See if you can have a chat with Chris Bailey when he gets back from Austria.
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