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@ OPA: Video: Jeff Jarvis: US Reading UK’s Tea Leaves - 0 Comments
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…

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@ OPA: Guardian Mulls India Launch - But What Price A Brand Extension? - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian.co.uk Et Al Still Dependent On Print Siblings - 0 Comments
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…

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Industry Moves: GNM Integration, Telegraph Digital, Microsoft’s Cruickshank, AP Fills EU Sales Role - 0 Comments
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…

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Magazines 2008: B2B ‘The Place To Be’ As GMG/Apax Go For Data - 0 Comments
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.…

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Print Bits: ABCe Gap Closing; Guardian vs BBC.com; Monkey On Web - 0 Comments
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…

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Blinkx Scoops Up More TV; Needs To Put It Together - 1 Comment
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…

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Guardian Starting Developer Network, Headed By Yahoo’s McAlister - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian/Observer Web Integration Redundancies Kick In - 0 Comments
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…

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Informa Loses CEO Gilbertson To New-Look Emap B2B; Centaur Review? - 0 Comments
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…

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Trader Media Sells Off Aussie Publishing Imprint TNT - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian Drops Unlimited Branding For Website - 1 Comment
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…

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Reuters To Sell Guardian’s Online Inventory in U.S. - 0 Comments
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…

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Current/Guardian Vlog Partnership Goes Live - 0 Comments
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…

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Rumourbusting: Bebo/Murdoch, Free Indie, WAYN/AOL - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian To Give Readers Social Platform; Taps Pluck For The Job - 0 Comments
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,…

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GMG/Apax To Merge Emap B2B With Incisive: Report - 0 Comments
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,…

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Guardian Media and Apax Buy Emap’s B2B Division For £1 Billion; May Merge Some Mags With Incisive - 0 Comments
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,…

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Print Bits: El Pais Sues Nielsen; Telegraph Gains, Guardian Falls In November - 2 Comments
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…

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Sunday Papers Succeed Online ‘Only If Money Is No Object’, Ex Observer Ed Alton Admits - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian’s 24/7 Integration: Strike Averted, Peace Breaks Out - 1 Comment
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…

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Print Bits: Daily Sport Hiatus, Dublin Free Content, Latest ABCe - 0 Comments
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…

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Guardian Joins Radio, Podcasting Trade Groups, Positions Against C4 - 0 Comments
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…

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Industry Moves: Guardian Picks Directors To Take Tech To King’s Cross - 2 Comments
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…

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@ Monaco: Video Interview: Simon Waldman, Guardian Media Group - 2 Comments
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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