Hello to Felix

Welcome to Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, a new blog about, well, let's here what 'Felix' says:

"I thought it would be interesting to get lots of informed people talking about the future of news reporting in Bristol, so I’ve started this blog. In coming weeks I plan to post a series of short articles addressing various questions and hopefully will get some debate going. It might be a complete waste of time, or it could fire some really interesting ideas. We might even create some wonderful new media models for other cities to emulate.

"I am a Bristol-based freelance journalist, working for local and national organisations, mostly in print. I am not an employee of any media firm and have no ulterior or financial motives in doing this. It’s simply that the future of news is something that colleagues and I discuss constantly in the pub and something which we all assume, rightly or wrongly, is an important issue. So let's open the debate up beyond the pub."

Can't argue with that - let the debate begin.

And perhaps we can look a little beyond Bristol to take in the hinterlands of Bath, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset as we're all suffering the same problems. However, while Bristol is supplemented by a healthy blogging community, the same cannot be said for my local area of Bath and Wiltshire.