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Category Archives: Local newspapers

Investigating the economics of local newspapers

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Tweet There is a grim certainty that the existence of local and regional newspapers are under threat in the UK and other developed economies. There are no shortage of articles from commentators saying this is generally a bad thing. Northcliffe’s East Kent Gazette is the latest in a long line of closures. But what are [...]

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Newspapers are dying, but don’t turn off the presses yet

Monday, January 17, 2011

Tweet December’s ABC figures show nothing, but nothing but newspaper sales decline. Only one national title, buoyed by advertising campaign spend, managed a positive growth rate in the last four weeks of 2010. Here is the headline data in case you haven’t seen it (taken from Press Gazette’s table) but seeing as no one else [...]

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Merry Christmas from your local paper. Sort of…

Friday, December 24, 2010

Tweet It’s always nice to receive Christmas cards. Somewhat less nice to receive automated mailing list Christmas spam from companies you have nothing to do with. Even worse is when the message is so generic and faceless it makes you laugh into your eggnog until you can laugh no more. Ping, an email arrives (see right). The [...]

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After the news has gone: life without your local newspaper

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Tweet What happens when your local newspaper leaves town? The people of Ashton-Under-Lyne in Greater Manchester found out 18 months ago when the Tameside Advertiser office (right) shut and its journalists were either sacked or moved seven miles west to Manchester city centre, home of the paper’s parent company MEN Media, now part of Trinity [...]

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