From the Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) results ... Digital revenue from display and recruitment ads at UK’s Guardian News & Media (GNM), the national newspaper division, grew 49 percent in…

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Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the subsidiary of U.K. newspaper publisher DMGT that operates sites including DailyMail.co.uk and ThisIsLondon, has signed with Tomorrow Focus, a German digital content company, to sell…

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The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital and product manager at European online DVD rental service Lovefilm.…

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Have a large grain of salt handy? MediaGuardian is out with its seventh annual list of the 100 most influential figures in media, declaring “this year we ripped up the…

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Several British news organizations are making efforts to tailor publishing efforts to an American audience. The IHT summarizes some of the headway made to date: Times: Has already started distributing…

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- Guardian: Deputy commercial director Adam Freeman has been promoted to Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) commercial director position, replacing Stuart Taylor. Freeman has been with GNM since 1992, when…

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The UK’s Channel 4 TV broadcaster has won backing from SMG, UTV and possibly Emap Radio - three of the UK’s biggest radio companies - in its bid to run…

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Britain’s Guardian intends to launch an American version of its Commentisfree op-ed portal in an effort bring liberal opinion to the US, editor Alan Rusbridger told the OPA Forum for…

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Guardian group in UK has combined its print and digital divisions on the business side. The paper will revamp its Guardian Unlimited ad sales digital and print teams into one…

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-- Two thirds of the UK have dabbled in digital: A quarter of all UK web users have started their own blog or website, a quarter have downloaded a film…

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The Association of Online Publishers conference is always a pleasure and the weight of this UK trade body feels more and more substantial every year—and that’s because of the increasing…

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The Guardian is no longer a UK national newspaper, said Simon Waldman - recently promoted to director of digital strategy for the Guardian Media Group. ”Media organizations are traditionally based…

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-- A long overdue move: Guardian Unlimited’s director of digital publishing Simon Waldman has been promoted: he’s now director of digital strategy and development for the whole Guardian Media Group.…

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Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Independent editor Simon Kelner were on BBC Radio 4’s Today program Friday morning responding to another of those “newspapers are dead” pieces - this time…

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UK’s Guardian Media Group announced its full year 2005-2006 results today, and while the print is still in a bad shape, the online is booming. Its turnover from continuing operations…

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Guardian tech editor Victor Keegan just got back from Telford, home of the industrial revolution, which makes a tidy introduction for his thoughts on The Guardian’s online community. He reckons…

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UK’s fierce newspaper war is, in one part, predicated on one-upping each other through gimmicks, giveaways etc. Now some of that element is moving online, where the newspaper sites are…

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Guardian’s global ambitions haven’t been hidden, but UK rival Times stole some of the limelight last week when they announced launching of a daily print edition in U.S. Now Carolyn…

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Carolyn McCall, who I met last week at the WeMedia conference in London (and we were on the same panel about business models), has been named the CEO of UK’s…

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This was the “grubby”, hands-on session after all that aspirational, world-changing stuff. It’s is a big panel (maybe too big - six people?!) including Rafat, Dave Sifry of Technorati and…

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The Guardian has done a fair bit in the mobile space, and now it has finally gotten around to launching a news service. The service is run by On2Go, the…

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Things are in a flux at the Guardian Media Group, though not necessarily in a bad way. Among them, the UK media group may sell off non-core assets: divesting its…

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Every few months someone else launches a Soduku mobile game—Guardian Unlimited in the UK has taken the next logical step and launched a Soduku League where users can compete head-to-head.…

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Guardian Online, one of the biggest news/newspapers sites in UK, is in profits this year, according to Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers. This will come as…

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Here’s a bunch of news coming out of UK (well, NMA) and I lumped them in together: -- Major portals staff up to boost Web site content: MSN UK is…

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