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Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 15 May 2008 11:00 PM PST
I caught up with online news commentator Jeff Jarvis - a US-UK columnist and consultant - at the Online Publishers Association conference, after he chaired a panel on internationalisation of…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 15 May 2008 03:39 AM PST
Guardian.co.uk, which last year set up its GuardianAmerica.com US subsite, is now considering launching in several more territories. Asked what follows the US expansion: Digital content director Emily Bell told…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 15 May 2008 01:24 AM PST
Despite a wave of newsroom integrations bringing growing prominence to online newspapers, the websites are still chronically dependent on the print parents that gave birth to them. Guardian.co.uk editorial development…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 02:08 AM PST
-- Guardian: Guardian News & Media has promoted Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson to head of news, business and sport, working across online, Guardian print and The Observer, according to…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 May 2008 07:49 AM PST
Leaders of the Apax/Guardian Media Group alliance confirmed their belief in B2B publishing’s ability to weather an economic storm, at Magazines 2008, the Periodical Publishers Association’s annual conference, this morning.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 03:23 AM PST
-- ABCe gap closing: Mirror Group Newspapers recorded four million unique users in March across its seven national news sites, its debut ABCe returns show. Guardian.co.uk held top place with…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 07:09 AM PST
Voice recognition-powered video search index Blinkx is announcing even more content deals this week than it usually does. Amongst the eight press releases issued in the last three days… It’s…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 27 Mar 2008 02:09 AM PST
Guardian News & Media (GNM) is to launch a developer network to “offer data and tools for external developers”. A newspaper… starting a developer network… ? If that sounds more…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:06 AM PST
It’s Guardian press correspondent Stephen Brook who has the task of reporting which of his colleagues are going as part of a redundancy round blamed on the paper’s 24/7 web…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 17 Mar 2008 01:09 AM PST
Apax and Guardian Media Group have poached Informa CEO David Gilbertson to the B2B publishing division of Emap (LSE: EMA) they bought for £1.2 billion before Christmas. In a statement…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Mar 2008 09:28 AM PST
A trio of publishing execs has bought Earls Court-based NT Magazine Group - the subdivision printing the 25-year-old TNT Magazine for London-based Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans - to a…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 11 Feb 2008 10:07 PM PST
I never understood the point of “Unlimited”...The concept was that the online version is not bound by the limitations of print, and hence the online site for Guardian was Guardian…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:00 AM PST
Guardian, which has a big chunk of its website traffic coming from U.S. but has always had a hard time building out a sales infrastructure here and monitizing it, has…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 03:15 AM PST
Current TV and The Guardian have gone live with their vlog partnership, which we reported on in December. Every day, one of the paper’s reporters shoots a webcam opinion piece…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jan 2008 01:43 AM PST
- Bebo/Murdoch: Up to its usual entertaining tricks, Valleywag points to Bebo employee Emma Carlsgaard’s profile update reporting Rupert Murdoch visited the site’s San Francisco office. After concluding News Corp…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jan 2008 01:54 AM PST
Guardian Unlimited will hand some of its social media platforms development to Texas-based Pluck (see announcement and PG). Specifically, it will use its SiteLife suite, which gives comment, rating, video,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 23 Dec 2007 07:54 AM PST
Incisive Media CEO Tim Weller has been invited to take charge of a new outfit formed from the merger of his company and Emap’s (LSE: EMA) B2B unit, Telegraph.co.uk says,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 21 Dec 2007 10:04 AM PST
So ends the saga of Emap, (LSE: EMA) one of the biggest magazine companies to ever exist in UK. It has sold off its remaining division, the B2B media unit,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 21 Dec 2007 03:39 AM PST
- El Pais: Spain’s top media company Prisa is suing Nielsen Online over disputed visitor numbers recorded for the website of its flagship El Pais newspaper. Nielsen stats prompted “damage…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Dec 2007 08:10 AM PST
Recently-departed Observer editor Roger Alton has penned his own postscript in today’s Guardian, accepting Sunday newspapers are unlikely to thrive online as separate entities from their daily stablemates. Alton quit…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Dec 2007 05:29 AM PST
Peace has broken out at Guardian News & Media over the publisher’s all-important multiplatform integration plan. NUJ members had at one point tabled a strike ballot over plans to increase…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 Nov 2007 06:54 AM PST
- Daily Sport: The tabloid newspaper’s new owner has “mothballed” the title’s website and is planning a redesign with less focus on naked flesh and more on mobile consumption, NMA…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 16 Nov 2007 04:07 AM PST
Guardian Unlimited is further staking out its non-core media credentials by joining the Radio Academy and the UK Podcasters Association. The paper’s former media editor Matt Wells, appointed this year…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:07 AM PST
The newsroom integration plan may be proving controversial with editorial staff, but Guardian News & Media (GNM) has made two director-level appointments “to help drive the company’s digital media strategy…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 11 Nov 2007 09:48 PM PST
At Monaco Media Forum this weekend, I briefly interviewed Simon Waldman, the digital strategy head for the Guardian Media Group. Previous to this Waldman was heading Guardian Unlimited, the online…
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