Guardian’s Rusbridger Urges Against Industry-Wide Paywalls
It’s not the Berlin Wall and Rupert Murdoch heads News Corp (NYSE: NWS). not the USSR, but Alan Rusbridger’s speech on the future of journal… Read more »
Guardian Editor: Belief In Paywall Salvation Is ‘Crazy’
Guardian News & Media’s digital director had already called charging for online newspapers “a stupid idea” back in August. Now editor Alan R… Read more »
Guardian.co.uk’s iPhone App Could Be A £2 Million-A-Year Business
Okay, that may be getting ahead of ourselves a little…
Guardian.co.uk says it’s sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app since launch… Read more »
Emap Refinancing: The Ink Isn’t Yet Dry
No final decisions have yet been made on whether Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners will pump more money in to their B2B publisher Emap,… Read more »
Manchester Evening News Steps Back On Free Distribution
By Chris Tryhorn: The Manchester Evening News is to row back from its strategy of giving away thousands of copies by restricting free distri… Read more »
GMG Confirms ‘Exploratory Talks’ On Regional Consolidation
Guardian Media Group has confirmed it’s having some kind of talks with rival publishers, after Telegraph.co.uk reported GMG “has discussed s… Read more »
Guardian’s iPhone App Sold 9,000 Downloads In First Two Days
Guardian.co.uk’s new iPhone app got some favourable reviews upon its release on Sunday night. Even more favourable – it shifted 9,000 in the… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Enters Smartphone Arena With £2.39 iPhone App
Guardian News & Media has launched its paid-for iPhone app in a bid to corner the news app market in the UK, US and Ireland – and it’s looki… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Confirms Commercial Cuts, No Model For Podcast Ads
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Guardian News & Media has given staff more details on what the business will look like after a round of restructuring and 100 job cuts acros… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Confirms Commercial Cuts, No Model For Podcast Ads
photo: Kevglobal
Guardian News & Media has given staff more details on what the business will look like after a round of restructuring and 100 job cuts acros… Read more »
BBC Shows Off Radio Player Deals; But It May Not Be That Easy
The BBC may have been barred, for now, from sharing its iPlayer with TV broadcasters – but it’s still offering to pump radio stations thro… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Cutting More Than 100 Jobs
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Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Cutting More Than 100 Jobs
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Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Plans Observer Paper Cuts
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The world’s oldest newspaper didn’t shut, but it will be scaled back. The Observer will be slimmed down to a four-section weekly paper as Gu… Read more »
Corrected: Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett Joins Guardian Media Group Board
Guardian Media Group has has appointed Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett as a non-executive director, to give its board some extra… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Guardian iPhone App Pricing; Spotify Launches On 3; Telegraph App Figures
– Guardian iPhone app: Guardian News & Media’s forthcoming paid-for iPhone app, news of which we broke in September, is being developed by… Read more »
Guardian News And Media Laying Off Six Employees In U.S.
photo: Digital Ghost
Guardian America, the U.S. arm of Guardian News and Media (of which we’re a separate division), is laying off six production/edit employees,… Read more »
IPA: Advertisers Unsatisifed By Newspaper Sites’ Sales Efforts
In ad-funded media, bang-for-buck is everything. But online newspapers are doing worse and worse at satisfying advertisers than rival digita… Read more »
Emap Will Raise The Paywall In Next Few Weeks
B2B magazine publisher Emap will convert all its websites from free to pay-for, starting in the next few weeks.
CEO David Gilbertson told u… Read more »
News Aggregator Calls On Newspapers To End Legal Action
If you receive legal threats from an an entire industry, you could just ask them to stop. At least, that’s what one news aggregator has done… Read more »
GNM Axing GuardianAmerica.com, Shuffling Execs In Restructure
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Guardian News & Media (GNM) is shuffling several exec chairs and abandoning its GuardianAmerica.com strategy, as it continues a big structur… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Zoopla; Guardian.co.uk; Canal+; CompareMyRadio; Zavvi; U2 Gig; Tradeclips
– Zoopla: The property site is upgrading all its sites with Zoopla’s property search database and technology. Zoopla, which uses public dat… Read more »
Industry Moves: eBay-Google; Virgin Media; MEN Media; UKOM
– eBay-Google: Alex von Schirmeister, the head of eBay’s French business, has been promoted to European marketing director based in Zurich.… Read more »
Interview: AutoTrader.co.uk Boss: ‘We’ll Be Last To Go Online-Only’
AutoTrader, the car classifieds advertiser that began life as a regional paper three decades ago, now makes a whopping nine tenths of its mo… Read more »
Guardian.co.uk Planning Paid-For iPhone App
Guardian.co.uk is preparing to launch an iPhone app and it’s likely to charge for it, paidContent:UK has learned.
Guardian News & Media con… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Trinity Local Closures; Observer Strike Threat; londonpaper Execs Redeployed
photo: Valerie Everett
– Trinity closures: More local weeklies bite the dust: Trinity Mirror’s paid-for Whitchurch Herald, the free Wrexham Chronicle and Mid-Ches… Read more »
Updated: Guardian.co.uk Has Lost £20 Million Since 2002/03
Guardian News & Media has lost £20 million from Guardian.co.uk in the last seven years. Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote on the site:… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Confirms Observer’s Survival
It will still be the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper for the forseeable future… Guardian News & Media has given a stay of execution to The… Read more »
More Cuts Coming, Guardian News & Media Boss Warns Staff
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By Stephen Brook: The managing director of Guardian News & Media, Tim Brooks, has told staff that more cost savings at the publisher of The… Read more »
Print Round-Up: FT.com Launches Lexicon; Emap Inform Memo; HeraldScotland.com Goes Live
– FT Lexicon: FT.com has launched a glossary of financial terms, Lexicon.ft.com. Like Forbes Digital’s Investopedia, Lexicon offers 10,000… Read more »
Guardian Going Ahead With Readers' Club
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By Chris Tryhorn: The Guardian is to hire a manager to run a planned readers’ club that could build a new revenue stream for the paper. Offe… Read more »
An Observer Bid? Financial Publisher Capital Ideas Signals Interest
London financial publisher Capital Ideas has declared its interest in buying The Observer newspaper and turning it into a weekly current-aff… Read more »
Journalism Online Offers Up 'Letters Of Intent' From Possible Affiliates — But No Names
Journalism Online, the new make-journalism-pay venture from Steve Brill, Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery, has letters of intent from newspape… Read more »
Corrected: Industry Moves: Yahoo Sales, Orange Sales, BBCWW Director, Northwest Vision, Nat-Geo UK
– Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) sales: Former OMD International MD Matt James, whom Yahoo appointed as UK sales director in June, has decided against… Read more »
Guardian Mulls Paid Members' Club; Rules Out Pay Wall, Calling It 'Stupid'
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As the search for new newspaper income rolls on, The Guardian is asking readers’ views on a proposed pay-for “members’ club” to “support The… Read more »
Earnings Call: Tweeting Murdoch: News Corp. Plans To Start Charging For More News Sites In FY10
photo: AP Photo / Virginia Mayo
Some of my live Twitter coverage of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). FY09/Q4 earnings call. Among other things, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert… Read more »
Interview: Dennis’ New CTO Paul Lomax: On E-Books And Leaving GMG
Paul Lomax is a man on the move: in two weeks he leaves his job as head of online for GMG Regionals to becomes Dennis Publishing’s first chi… Read more »
Industry Moves: GMG Regional Online Head Lomax Joining Dennis
GMG Regional’s head of new media Paul Lomax is leaving the company to become chief technology officer (CTO) at Dennis Publishing. Lomax conf… Read more »
Guardian News & Media Will Be ‘Smaller,’ Even After The Recovery
Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall says further upcoming restructuring “inevitably means we will be a smaller organisation,” even after… Read more »
Print Round-Up: SMG Sells Front; Guardian/Expedia; NME’s iPhone App
– Sport sells Front: Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group has sold lads’ mag Front for just £87,500 to start-up Kane Limited, just 14 m… Read more »
