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Patrick Smith (UK Correspondent)

Patrick is paidContent’s UK correspondent, writing mainly for paidContent:UK on the UK and European digital economies.  He is interested in original online content, how it’s monetised and in everything from publishing and advertising to games and music.

He joined the company in November 2008 after two years at journalism trade magazine Press Gazette and has appeared as a regular media commentator on TV and BBC radio.

He was twice nominated for the PTC New Journalist of the Year award.

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psmith psmith 12 hours, 24 minutes Ago RT @suttonnick: Observer front page - "Murdoch faces fresh crisis as key Sun staff arrested" #tomorrowspaperstoday #hacking http://t.co/VQF74A94
psmith psmith 12 hours, 25 minutes Ago What gets me about handshakegate is that all 5live pundits say is 'I wish we weren't talking about it'. Guys, I can see a way out of this
psmith psmith 12 hours, 27 minutes Ago @mk1969 it's as if they're world leaders snubbing each other at a NATO conference. It's an over-rated striker and a French fullback.
psmith psmith 12 hours, 28 minutes Ago RT @mk1969: a national debate about whether not shaking someone's hand disbars you from a job is yet another sign we've disappeared up our own arses
psmith psmith 12 hours, 59 minutes Ago RT @eurocrat: Some hard data on the remaking of media business RT @JimmyTLeach The economics of the Daily Mail online http://t.co/R5RboScN
psmith psmith 12 hours, 59 minutes Ago RT @mikeorren: My old boss (prolly best I ever had), @wpollak, leaves ALM. Here's what he learned in 13 years running legal B2B co: http://t.co/OCkcmCNi
psmith psmith 13 hours Ago @PeteEllender Sweet. Never made it to Sonisphere but it sounds like my spiritual home
psmith psmith 18 hours, 9 minutes Ago RT @AussieGrit: Superb picture of Pele playing for Santos against Sheffield Wednesday, Hillsborough, 1962. Just look at the kop. http://t.co/FVueWbO4 #swfc”
psmith psmith 20 hours, 34 minutes Ago See @dansabbagh recent tweets for lowdown on The Sun arrests. NOTW closure wasn't the end, nor the worst of this crisis
psmith psmith 20 hours, 39 minutes Ago RT @Betfairpoker: As a neutral, I can't help but hope that both teams lose.
psmith psmith 20 hours, 40 minutes Ago Ooh and with confusing motivational messages on the back: 'nicety beauty life' http://t.co/cENYXpzf
psmith psmith 20 hours, 42 minutes Ago Pound shop grater in world's longest word record challenge http://t.co/LdSDft02
psmith psmith 21 hours, 53 minutes Ago Orient v Huddersfield is off at Brisbane Rd, says the #lofc Facebook page. It will be a good day for B&Q.
psmith psmith 22 hours, 14 minutes Ago Updates to 5 of my fave apps: tweetbot, Evernote, tunein radio, instagram, foursquare
psmith psmith 1 Day, 11 hours, 50 minutes Ago Wiseau: utterly unintelligible. #theroom
psmith psmith 1 Day, 12 hours, 2 minutes Ago At the Prince Charles Cinema for a screening of The Room with q&a with the one and only Tommy Wiseau. Tremendous.
psmith psmith 1 Day, 16 hours, 2 minutes Ago @edfenergycs Hi - your welcome letter tells me to call you. I've been hold for ten minutes and counting. Hos long should I persevere?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 16 hours, 11 minutes Ago Why are people putting our press releases on Friday afternoon? Only just got client sign-off?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 16 hours, 58 minutes Ago @alexsmith614 I do not think so
psmith psmith 1 Day, 17 hours, 44 minutes Ago @jamesrbuk Can they play Far Far Away? or Not At All?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 17 hours, 56 minutes Ago @johncthompson good point - but it would have to be prettayyy prettayyy good swag.
psmith psmith 1 Day, 17 hours, 57 minutes Ago RT @katefairhurst: @psmith - not without at least buying us dinner first...
psmith psmith 1 Day, 18 hours Ago So the condom thing has sexy models, "along with copious amounts of champagne, canapés, as well as a laser light show." Should I go?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 18 hours, 5 minutes Ago Received reminder for an event about the future of condom innovation. Half tempted to see what crazy changes they've developed...
psmith psmith 1 Day, 18 hours, 24 minutes Ago RT @AlexiMostrous: Indy's @TheIPaper overtakes @Guardian in sales for Jan 2012 (243,321 vs 229,753) --> after spending a lot on telly ads
psmith psmith 1 Day, 18 hours, 27 minutes Ago Very interesting: UBM Built Environment has released its first audience measurement report, carried out by PwC. More soon...
psmith psmith 1 Day, 19 hours, 21 minutes Ago Another infographic that doesn't list a source anywhere. Is the bar of fact-checking lowered when it's a pretty picture?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 19 hours, 42 minutes Ago New interview with Tomáš Bella: Piano Media, metered paywalls and lessons from TV subscriptions http://t.co/IZKgqsCK #paywalls12
psmith psmith 1 Day, 19 hours, 45 minutes Ago @milnemedia 11in!? That's immense - respect. What did you lose in terms of weight?
psmith psmith 1 Day, 19 hours, 47 minutes Ago RT @MailOnline: Victory for Daily Mail as Banker Nathaniel Rothschild loses libel action over Lord Mandelson meeting story http://t.co/i6lfQY22

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