Although many other U.S. newspapers have shrunk, the Philadelphia Inquirer has suffered more than most. Will Steacy, whose father was laid off from the paper in 2011, has put together a photo essay showing its decline. Read more »
Hammered by declining print advertising revenue in much the same way newspapers have been, Time Inc. announced that it is laying off about 500 of its staff. But are the cuts the end, or just the beginning? Read more »
Facing declining advertising pages and the need to emphasize digital as audiences turn away from print, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia announced it will stop selling “Everyday Food” as a standalone monthly magazine and will sell off “Whole Living.” It is also laying off 70 employees. Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s struggling iPad newspaper The Daily is laying off 50 of 170 employees and also implementing other cost-saving measures, including decreasing opinion and sports coverage. The changes will help the publication “be more nimble editorially,” editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo said. Read more »
Google announced Monday that it has purchased Meebo, the social media and advertising company, to add a team of engineers and some publisher-friendly social tools to its Google+ efforts. Meebo’s CEO, CTO and engineers from its product team will remain with Google after the completed purchase. Read more at GigaOM »
So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio. Read more »
The Times is to cut 100 editorial posts out of a total workforce of 700, editor James Harding has told staff. Read more »
Not great news around the holidays, but at least some of the consultations won’t begin until January: UK mobile operators O2 and Everything… Read more »
By Jason Deans: Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is making more cuts at its Liverpool operation, which publishes titles including the Liverpool Ech… Read more »
In response to the government’s recent proposed Digital Britain amendments, the UK music business has issued a holding statement that some m… Read more »
One has to wonder why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bothered creating Silverlight, when Adobe’s Flash had long ago become the effective standard fo… Read more »
By Roy Greenslade: Despite the advance of the digital age, there is an enduring love for newsprint. So it comes as little surprise to hear t… Read more »
By Stephen Brook: Up to 50 editorial jobs at the Press Association could be at risk as a result of Teletext’s decision to shut down its core… Read more »
– Newsquest re-launch: The Gannett-owned regional publisher has given a facelift to 150 of its newspaper websites, including Telegraphandar… Read more »
AIM-listed TV-and-web gaming vendor NetPlayTV is aiming to raise £12.8 million, to strengthen its balance sheet and finance further growth,… Read more »
– ITN/Mail: Yet another online video contract for ITN’s prolific On multimedia division – it’s supplying showbiz, lifestyle, general and bu… Read more »
Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search p… Read more »
Hyderabad, India-based mobile content distributor IMI Mobile is buying Mobytec, the operator of mobile backup and content sharing service Mo… Read more »
After failing to be sold itself, Reed Business Information is now selling TWgroup, its travel publishing unit including Travel Weekly, Gazet… Read more »
Sky’s PC and mobile ad sales house, Sky Digital Media, is planning to cut five percent of its 50-strong workforce after recent advertising d… Read more »
It was almost inevitable. This time last year widget-maker (because that’s what they were called, then) Slide was sitting on $50 million wor… Read more »
Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters picking their own VOD channels instead of aggregators, acknowledges Mike Volpi, who res… Read more »
After surviving mostly on syndication and press release redistribution for the last couple of years, digital news site Netimperative is clos… Read more »
– Trinity Mirror: The publisher has announced that five newspaper offices and 11 jobs at its weekly Scottish newspaper division are under t… Read more »
The job losses are now coming from multiple parts of Guardian Media Group units. Just a few weeks after saying it would cut 50 of its 850 ed… Read more »
– Telegraph Demotix deal: Telegraph Media Group has signed up citizen journalism aggregator Demotix to provide news and pictures for the w… Read more »
– The Face: The style title that rose to become the fashion addict’s mag of choice in the 80s and 90s could be resurrected by Bauer Media f… Read more »
While the global services division of Ian Livingston’s BT (NYSE: BT) implodes, the telco’s UK retail operations are holding their own. In th… Read more »
– Bauer Media: Paul Wright has been appointed director of digital media at magazine group Bauer Media, 10 months after leaving his executiv… Read more »
The gaming industry has shed 6,300 jobs in North America, or about 12 percent of the sector, since June 2008 according to Gamasutra. The sta… Read more »
