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Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 16 Sep 2008 08:39 PM PST
-- Trinity Mirror: Mark Hollinshead has been appointed the new managing director of Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) nationals division, combining his duties of currently overseeing Scottish Daily Record and Sunday…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 15 Sep 2008 01:07 AM PST
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) this morning asked the US Department of Justice, the European Commission and the Competition Bureau of Canada to block the deal under which Google…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 15 Sep 2008 12:25 AM PST
Norwegian news publisher Schibsted is looking to make acquisitions in the online space, after recently seeing the web make up a quarter of its sales. The Aftenposten and Aftenbladet publisher…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 10 Sep 2008 06:58 AM PST
More bad news for print. The Daily Express and Sunday Express are preparing to lay off more than 80 journalists by the end of the year in an effort to…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 04 Sep 2008 05:50 AM PST
-- Informa: It’s been confirmed that Blackstone has replaced Hellman & Friedman in the consortium to buy B2B publisher and Datamonitor owner Informa. It joins Providence Equity LLP and The…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 02 Sep 2008 02:54 AM PST
-- Informa: Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle Group have made “excellent progress” in finding money to finance a £3 billion acquisition of the Lloyd’s List publisher, The Times says. Blackstone…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 27 Aug 2008 07:52 AM PST
-- Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) SMS: The Daily Mail is giving new users of its MailTXT service 50 SMS messages that can be sent to any mobile network worldwide. The…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 26 Aug 2008 05:36 AM PST
The Press Association, which should at this point have properly translated to the online world its status as one of the few UK-wide newsgathering agencies, is making several appointment changes…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 25 Aug 2008 10:16 PM PST
Fairfax Media is the latest media company to slash jobs to cut costs. The “business improvement program” will be implemented during the first half of FY09, resulting in an overall…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Aug 2008 02:08 AM PST
News International and FT Group have launched The Times and Financial Times on to Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) clunky Kindle e-reader, even though the gadget isn’t available in the UK. Priced…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:24 PM PST
Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 11 Aug 2008 01:37 AM PST
The simmering war of words between Telegraph.co.uk and Guardian.co.uk bosses gets more and more like a feisty soap opera, from the sidelines. The two first fell out over Telegraph.co.uk’s 2006…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Aug 2008 05:12 AM PST
-- Johnston Press: The regional publisher is closing recruitment site JobsToday’s London sales office after deciding to focus on local advertising rather than job agencies. It places eight jobs at…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Aug 2008 01:03 AM PST
South-of-England news publisher Archant saw digital income in the last six months was 63 percent on the same period last year to an unstated figure - but the overall picture…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Aug 2008 03:50 AM PST
-- E-Metro: Freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to roll out a “digital edition”. E-Metro, produced by digital publisher Yudu, tries to replicate the page-turning paradigm of a print newspaper…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 31 Jul 2008 02:07 AM PST
You’ve got to admire Sly Bailey’s optimism. Despite profits falling 15 percent in the half-year alone, the Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO told analysts: ”This morning, I’m going to concentrate…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 28 Jul 2008 09:46 AM PST
-- Mygazines: Little surprise here. Mygazines, a site that encourages magazine readers to scan and share pages from their favourite reads, is being dimly viewed by the Periodical Publishers Association…
Posted By VCCircle - Thu 24 Jul 2008 11:40 PM PST
Updated: Bennett, Coleman & Co denies any such talks. BC’s UK subsidiary TIML spokesperson: “There is no truth in the rumours.” That’s that, for now. Original post: Is Indian media…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 24 Jul 2008 11:58 AM PST
Mobile news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: UK publisher Trinity Mirror is developing mobile sites for 2 national newspapers and 12 regional ones, teaming…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jul 2008 06:01 AM PST
Mirror.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk have refreshed their websites this week, just as Guardian.co.uk completes its £15 million, 18-month redesign. Mirror.co.uk gets a shouty, red-top look that’s big on colour and celebrity…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Jul 2008 04:54 AM PST
Associated Newspapers plans to publish a New York edition of its quintessentially English Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) and Mail On Sunday tabloids, PrintWeek reports. It is enlisting Newsworld to distribute…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 04:43 AM PST
After Mail Online’s about-turn, GMG’s GuardianAmerica.com launch and Times Online’s WSJ.com link-up, now the UK’s number-two online paper Telegraph.co.uk has decided to make money from the majority of its users…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 12:51 AM PST
Rue89, a French alternative news site founded by disgruntled former Libération editors, has attracted a €1.1 million investment after selling a 24.9 percent stake to backers including Fotolog operator Hi-Media.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:50 AM PST
Throwing a small lifeline to newspapers coping with the twin pressures of digital investment and falling print revenue, European media commissioner Viviane Reding pledged: ”There should be no new advertising…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:46 AM PST
Fresh from winning a European court case forcing Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News to stop exercpting their articles, Belgian news publishers have lost their similar case against the European Commission itself…
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