Regional newspapers are either in – or just exiting – an economic crisis. The rules have changed, the ad revenue is disappearing to free online alternatives, news habits have changed and the audience is getting older. It shouldn’t be this hard, in theory: if the current thinking among intelligent journalists is that you need a [...]
Update 1/7/10: See Tom Whitwell’s comment below: he points out that of course there are adverts on thetimes.co.uk, “on every page” even. “We just don’t have dozens of flashing popup/popunder ads for Albanian bingo parlours,” he says. So I admit to exaggerating slightly by saying there are “no” adverts – but one or two display [...]
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Tagged Advertising, eMarketer, newsinternational, newspapers, Online advertising, The Times, thetimes.co.uk, Times Online, Tom Whitwell
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Tagged Advertising, Journalism, News Corporation, newspapers, Times Newspapers
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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 [...]
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 – [...]
Update: Watch the whole video at this link (not embeddable, unfortunately). Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role of reporters to hold authority to account. All that’s according to George Brock, the recently-installed [...]
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Tagged B2B, businessmodels, cityuniversity, CMPi, educations, Emap, George Brock, Google, Journalism, Magazines, newspapers, paidcontent, paywalls, UBM
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One of the main take-away truisms of the news economics debate is that the two strands of news publishing, consumer and B2B, have very differing chances of succeeding in charging readers online in the same way they do in print. Generalist, too-big-by-half newspapers have one hell of a job on their hands converting its crafted [...]
Demand Media is now accepting freelance writers from the UK and Canada – the first outside the US – as part of the first step in a planned European expansion. The company had 7,000 freelance contributers in February, produces something in the order of 4,000 how-to articles and videos a day, serves two million YouTube [...]
I’ve seen a lot of dodgy reporting since I started writing about the media business, but you’d have to look long and hard to find something as quietly depressing as this. Here’s the short version: prankster Robert Popper – author of the very funny Timewaster Diaries – calls the LBC radio station to join the [...]
