idaventry.com – making the news on top international blog
An article featuring the Icelandic banking crisis and its effects on Daventry and currently appearing in idaventry.com, has been featured as a guest posting on the very influencial Online Journalism Blog. Writing for the website are contributors from around the world including the blogs founder, Senior Academic Paul Bradshaw (UK), Nicolas Kayser-Bril (UK and France), Alex Gamela (Portugal), Nico Luchsinger (Switzerland), Malcolm Coles (UK), Alex Lockwood (UK), Wilbert Baan (Netherlands), Sothisischristmas (UK), Pramit Singh (India), Karthika Muthukumaraswamy (US) and Dorien Aerts (Belgium), as well as a team of ‘virtual interns’.
The Online Journalism Blog is a pioneer in new technology news broadcasting attracting contributors from around the world covering important political issues.
Paul Bradshaw founder of the Oneline Journalism Blog said, “idaventry.com, proves a point about how new media can be just as questioning as (if not more than) old media and showing, how a hyperlocal blog teamed up with an Icelandic blog to cover a big story about a council investment fiasco”
UK hyperlocal blog, meet Icelandic blogger: the iDaventry council debt campaign
July 8th, 2009 by paulbradshaw
Launched in April/May 2009, idaventry is a community driven local news and features site with strong editorial comment. I invited publisher Dave Raven to write a guest post for OJB on their latest campaign regarding Daventry Council’s investments in Icelandic banks.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to be writing this guest post, since there will be few occasions when a local community website such as
iDaventry.com can speak off-topic about an international event.
The reason is Daventry District Council’s investment fiasco, locking up £8 million of ratepayer’s cash in the four Icelandic banks that crashed so spectacularly last October.
This June a Parliamentary select committee the CLG, concluded Local Governments were badly advised by external treasury management advisers. So that’s alright then – it’s not the Council’s fault. [Read more]
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