Looking to accentuate the positive
Business Desk has recognised there is only so much doom and business reporting gloom you can take. To be fair a number of NW business publications are looking for positive stories, realising that there are many businesses that are still thriving. Indeed, I work with two that do especially well in these economic times.
Chris Barry says in his article today on Business Desk there are “plenty of business people striving to grow their firms despite the downturn and we will look to highlight their stories.” A much welcomed approach. Newspapers are there to report and have no obligation to be positive, but there has been a lack of balance across much of the press recently.
In November I placed a story in the Salford Advertiser (below) in response to insolvency practice Begbies Traynor’s apocalyptic assessment of Salford businesses looking into the abyss.
On the nationals’ side I am not so sure. One contact that receives a lot of media requests at his work has told me that the calls they receive want redundancies, redundancies, redundancies.
Tags: newspapers, Recession