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Commercial interests vs editorial independence in changing Times

Image via Wikipedia There are no shortage of autobiographies, memoirs and tales from Fleet Street’s pomp, when hacks would gossip the day long and could navigate its countless boozers without getting wet in a rainstorm. Mostly, they describe a rapidly disappearing world of mass circulations, huge staff rosters and a narrow media culture compared to [...]

The Times’s paywall hopes under the microscope at the Frontline

This is cross-posted from the Frontline Club’s Forum blog, which I write for and look after as part of my work there. It’s relevent to things I generally write about here so I thought I’d share. The pic is by talented Frontline member Chris King One way to boost newspaper revenues as print circulation and [...]

Independent sell-off proves every old media business is for sale

Image via Wikipedia It was the title they’d never sell. Despite everything – INM’s massive debt and pending bond repayments, the falling revenue, the potentially rebellious staff – Independent News & Media‘s goal over the last two years has been: maintain and protect The Independent at all costs. But now sell is exactly what INM [...]

Wishful thinking as News International hopes mass print audience and scarcity survive

Image via CrunchBase The latest accounts to be released from Rupert Murdoch‘s News International, covering the 52 weeks to June 28 2009, say much about the company’s content propaganda. News Group Newspapers, the division that publishes market leading red-tops The Sun and News of the World, made pre-tax profits of £40.3m for the year – [...]