Guardian Changes: McAlister To Head Digital, Folwell Will Lead New Ventures
New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller is making several changes he says will simplify GMG’s structure, bolster its exec team and focus… Read more »
Change Of Direction For Guardian Media Group?
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to undergo a change of strategy under plans drawn up by its new chief executive, Andrew Miller, reports today’… Read more »
Guardian Flips iPhone App To Subscription Model, Except In U.S.
We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment.
Now… Read more »
Guardian Media Group Fills CFO Gap With GroupM Finance Exec Singer
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Guardian Media Group, our parent company, has hired GroupM financial exec Darren Singer to fill its CFO gap. The position has been open sinc… Read more »
Guardian And Apax Hold Talks On Future Of Auto Trader
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@ AOP: Guardian, Mail Seeing Healthy Half-Year Digital Growth
Maybe things are looking up for news publishers who decide to stick with ad funding and eschew reader fees.
“Digital ad revenues are up ove… Read more »
An Unofficial iPad App Gives Away Guardian Stories
If you build it, they may come; but if you don’t build it yet give away the raw materials, someone may build it for you.
Such is the case w… Read more »
News Reshuffles: Trinity’s Regional Digital, Guardian Projects, Johnston MD
– Trinity Mirror: Regionals’ digital director Chris Bunyan’s role is becoming redundant in a reshuffle, replaced by two new roles – a digit… Read more »
Guardian’s U.S. CEO Caroline Little Stepping Aside
By Josh Halliday: Caroline Little, the chief executive of Guardian News & Media’s US operation, is to step down from her role with the c… Read more »
Guardian’s Mobile Biz Manager To Head CNBC’s EMEA Digital Activity
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CNBC says it’s hiring Guardian News & Media’s mobile business manager Torsten de Riese to be its digital director for Europe, Middle East an… Read more »
Of Pies And Tarts: Web Earnings Pale Against Print
Some new tidbits for metrics fiends today, from The Guardian’s optimisation and effectiveness head Tim Gentry.
Presenting to an Association… Read more »
Guardian Media Group Makes Its Finance Chief CEO
Now that its long-time CEO Carolyn McCall has flown off to run budget airline easyJet, Guardian Media Group is giving its interim replacemen… Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies On Times’ Pay Day
On the day The Times and Sunday Times start requiring payments for their new websites, The Guardian has devoted its top above-the-fold promo… Read more »
GMG Buys UBC’s MXR, Takes Its iTunes Tagging Service
By Mark Sweney: UBC Media has sold its stake in radio multiplex MXR to Guardian Media Group and struck a deal to allow listeners across the… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Guardian Figs, Telegraph Figs, SkyBet, ITV Player
– Guardian figs: The paper says its £2.39 iPhone app has been bought 156,000 times since launching in December. That’s a total £372,840 i… Read more »
Guardian Digital Income Down ‘Marginally’ In Reduced GNM Loss
Guardian Media Group said digital revenue at its Guardian News & Media division “declined only marginally” in the year to March, as it annou… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Losses Slimmed After £26.2 Million Cost Cut
By Steve Busfield: Guardian Media Group’s annual pre-tax loss has grown significantly for the financial year to the end of March, due to wri… Read more »
Guardian Looking For Money In API, New Readers Club
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It may be sceptical that readers would pay to read its news site – but Guardian News & Media is today taking the wraps off two alternative n… Read more »
Industry Moves: Skype Marketer, Tom Coates, Guardian.co.uk, Joost
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– Skype: The VOiP firm is adding game firm Mig33′s chief marketer Doug Bewsher as its own chief marketing officer, based in Luxembourg to “… Read more »
Industry Moves: IGN UK MD, GMG Board, FT Comment
– IGN UK MD: IGN and GameSpy publisher IGN Entertainment is hiring Electronic Arts’ head of digital game distribution Ian Chambers as its U… Read more »
Times Cuts Back Before The Wall, As Guardian Tries Law Site
With just a few weeks before they launch new sites behind paywalls in June, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) Times and Sunday Times are each cutting… Read more »
Guardian Media Group Digital Director Waldman Leaving For LoveFilm
By Steve Busfield: The Guardian Media Group group director of digital strategy and development, Simon Waldman, is to join LoveFilm.
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GMG Names Finance Chief Miller Interim CEO
Guardian Media Group is putting a numbers guy in charge, at least for the time being, in place of outgoing veteran Carolyn McCall.
Chief fi… Read more »
Interview: Guardian’s Bell Sees Mixed-Model Future On Way To Columbia
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They say people who can do, and people who can’t teach – but Guardian News & Media’s veteran digital content director Emily Bell, who has sp… Read more »
Guardian’s Emily Bell Leaving For Columbia University
Life would be so boring without bolts from the blue, like this one; our colleague Emily Bell is leaving The Guardian to join the journalism… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Guardian iPad, Sky News, UTV Apps
– Guardian iPad: The publisher says its free Eyewitness photojournalism app saw over 50,000 downloads in the 10 days between Apr 3 and 13.… Read more »
Murdoch’s Plan For Paywall Success: Readers Will Pay ‘When They’ve Got Nowhere Else To Go’
This Sunday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt will address the American Society of News Editors at their conference in Washington D.C. –… Read more »
UK Media Tussle: Guardian Editor Fires Back At Rivals
Facing their toughest challenge in generations, British news publishers are sniping at each other like schoolgirls in the playground…
The… Read more »
Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge?
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Suddenly, everything is new again. Underlining uncertainty and lack of consensus regarding mobile-device monetisation strategy, two newspape… Read more »
McCall’s Take-Off Confirmed: ‘Our Financial Position Is Secure’
Guardian Media Group and easyJet both confirmed GMG CEO Carolyn McCall’s departure for the budget airline Wednesday morning (see full earlie… Read more »
Guardian Media Group CEO McCall Leaving To Run easyJet
On the face of it, the only thing news publishing and aviation have in common is massive recent disruption – nevertheless, Guardian Media Gr… Read more »
GMG Mothballing Channel M, But Does An Opportunity Remain?
The writing was on the wall for Channel M when Trinity Mirror bought GMG Regional Media from Guardian Media Group but left the Manchester me… Read more »
Industry Moves Round-Up: Kevin Anderson, EMI Turnaround, T-Mobile CMO, FT’s MGA Ed, Archant Board
– Kevin Anderson: Guardian.co.uk’s blogs editor, who has been working on pre-election online planning lately and previous worked on the BBC… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Muse/Warner, AOL/FanHouse, Vodafone/Qik, Guardian
– Muse: Another band joining the app bandwagon: Muse is now offering fans an app on Apple’s App Store with music, a video archive, tour inf… Read more »
Paywall Sceptics Are Wrong: Salvation Lays In Experimentation
Evan Rudowski is CEO of subscription-content platform SubHub, a former European MD for Excite@Home and once managed online at Newsday, the N… Read more »
Trinity Mirror Buying GMG Regional Media For £44.8 Million
Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) still sees value in local newspapers, even if Guardian Media Group doesn’t. It’s buying GMG Regional Media – with… Read more »
Rusbridger: ‘iPad Could Produce Significant Revenue Streams’
It’s not exactly a great leap from publishing an iPhone app to offering one on the soon-to-be-released iPad – not only will the former run… Read more »
GMG CEO: Paywall Would Suffocate Us, But Niche Content Could Sell
The Guardian has already ruled one big paywall at the director level and the editor level. Now there’s no doubt, as Guardian Media Group CEO… Read more »
Industry Moves: Bauer Media, Guardian Local, Adconion
- Bauer: Carl Lyons has left his job as digital marketing director for Bauer Media. The move follows another change in the digital team earl… Read more »
Rusbridger: Does Journalism Exist?
Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture in honour of the memory of Hugh Cudlipp.
Ask any British journalist who were their edito… Read more »
