What's happened at H&H?

Found this on their webiste.....

There's disorder in the stables at Horse & Hound, the 130-year-old magazine catering for bucolic tastes but based in insalubrious, inner-city Southwark, South London.

‘The editor has been made redundant and others have been invited to re-apply for their jobs,’ reports my jodhpur-wearing source.

‘I think the idea is for the magazine to go more online, though not many of we horsey types are computer literate.
 
They've had a big internal reshuffle to place more importance on digital media and several of the existing editorial team have decided that it's time to move on. Very sad, but with ABC figures circling the drain, it's not exactly unexpected.

It's not just IPC though, just think of the magazines that have disappeared or gone to online only over the past few years - Horse, Horse Deals, Horsemart, Horse & Pony..... I wonder if Eventing will be next to go?
 
I didn't like Lucy's tone on several matters recently and last years " Hi-Viz is being over done to the extent of riders looking like Bertie Basset " was an epic fail
 
Sounds like the end of civilisation as we know it .
All the silly corporate double speak in that link above yuk yuk yuk .
 
L&M said:
What's 'cross - platform brand communicating' when it is at home?!!!

Good luck to them using jargon like that....
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I consider myself to be quite literate but that was like reading another language.
Corporate crap-spouting makes me shudder.

Iownayetti said:
I didn't like Lucy's tone on several matters recently and last years " Hi-Viz is being over done to the extent of riders looking like Bertie Basset " was an epic fail
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popsdosh said:
But true!!!!
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Let's not start all that again...!!
 
Sounds like a sensible response to the rapidly changing demands of the digital age to me! Hopefully H&H will survive as a brand for years to come, even if not in the form of the traditional printed magazine we know at present. I know, personally, I spend more time on the Internet H&H site than I do reading the printed one, even though we buy the printed mag every week.
 
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Let's not start all that again...!![/QUOTE]Totally agree but just shows how some people reacted to some of Lucy's views when others fully support her ,she will be a loss to H&H that they will live to regret ,not everybody wants a dumbed down version,at least she was not afraid to say it as it was.
 
I'm not interested in who the editor is, however I do know I look forward to my copy of H&H. Nothing could replace it and if it were to become only available on line it would lose my subscription. I might spend all day on a computer and sometime in the evening but I will never read H&H online regularly
 
I liked Lucy. If it's true and she's gone, then I'm sorry and H&H will be the worse for it. Good luck for the future, Lucy.

And if you think THAT was corporate bullhooks, read this ... It's a recent ad for a 70k NHS job for an 'Equalities and Diversity Manager'. Part of the job description was:

'In this newly created role, you will help to build and develop the required culture by influencing decision-making and increasing organisational and individual awareness of the value of diversity through the introduction, development and maintenance of leading-edge organisational development interventions'.
 
jules9203 said:
I'm not interested in who the editor is, however I do know I look forward to my copy of H&H. Nothing could replace it and if it were to become only available on line it would lose my subscription. I might spend all day on a computer and sometime in the evening but I will never read H&H online regularly
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Totally agree jules9203. I spend all day every day pretty much at my computer but I like my paper copies and will stop getting it if it goes purely online. Theres something nice about having paper, I also don't like ebooks.
 
Mrs B said:
I liked Lucy. If it's true and she's gone, then I'm sorry and H&H will be the worse for it. Good luck for the future, Lucy.

And if you think THAT was corporate bullhooks, read this ... It's a recent ad for a 70k NHS job for an 'Equalities and Diversity Manager'. Part of the job description was:

'In this newly created role, you will help to build and develop the required culture by influencing decision-making and increasing organisational and individual awareness of the value of diversity through the introduction, development and maintenance of leading-edge organisational development interventions'.
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Wtf does that mean?!

Be interested see what the future of H&H will be now...
 
jules9203 said:
I'm not interested in who the editor is, however I do know I look forward to my copy of H&H. Nothing could replace it and if it were to become only available on line it would lose my subscription. I might spend all day on a computer and sometime in the evening but I will never read H&H online regularly
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Too true. I don't really read email magazines, etc. like the BHS news or TRACKS. I like to sit down and read things at my leisure and I read ALL of H & H, even all the adverts. If H & H was only on-line I wouldn't bother to subscribe.
 
Agree, Orangehorse, I like to sit down and read my H&H - can't do with "reading" stuff on line, it's just not the same. If it goes purely on line, I doubt I would continue to subscribe. I hope that Lucy hasn't disappeared in to the ether - sad loss!!
 
From the latest stuff it sounds like Lucy and some others left of their own accord due to the changes. No idea if that's the truth or just nice marketing
 
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