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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 - Wed 14 May 2008 01:30 AM PST
The differences couldn’t be starker - on the day regional news publisher Johnston reported more falls in print classifieds, B2B publisher Centaur finds online is nicely making up for declines…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 14 May 2008 01:06 AM PST
Debt-ridden UK regional news publisher Johnston Press is buying (or rather, selling) itself a financial lifeline in the struggling regional classifieds market by taking a £212.3 ($414 million) investment from…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 13 May 2008 05:59 AM PST
This’ll ruffle some feathers amongst rival editors. ComScore claims Sun Online is the UK’s most popular news website, with 4.29 million monthly unique users in March - ahead of Guardian.co.uk…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 07 May 2008 03:28 AM PST
French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire group were down 4 percent to 1.8 billion euros…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 04 May 2008 04:00 PM PST
You’re reading it here first… The number of newspaper editors who believe news will become an entirely free commodity - both online and in print - is growing. This year’s…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 05:16 AM PST
Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp’s recently acquired Wall Street Journal website to help “monetise” its US readership, reports…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 25 Apr 2008 03:30 AM PST
Following a disastrous foray into the German mail delivery business, Europe’s largest newspaper publisher Axel Springer said Thursday that it was now refocusing its attention on its internet and foreign…
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 - Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:11 AM PST
-- BBC mulls OpenID: The BBC is announcing support for OpenID. Sort of. The broadcaster said it had joined the OpenID Foundation, leading the decentralised identity system that allows users…
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 20 Apr 2008 01:11 PM PST
Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times, and the new title is expected to…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:55 AM PST
Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made £8 million revenue in its first year - but lost…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:58 AM PST
Orange in France is testing a concept mobile digital newspaper and ebook reader. Like an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle minus the keyboard, Read&Go uses touchscreen to navigate a custom UI…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:16 AM PST
-- Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:09 AM PST
Independent.co.uk‘s January redesign doubled its online newspaper audience share and put it ahead of the languishing Mirror.co.uk, according to Hitwise stats. The site is now getting 10 times more traffic…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 01:02 AM PST
Telegraph Media Group is promoting politics editor Iain Martin to a new role of head of comment and community, in a move that integrates the letters and blogs operations across…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:08 AM PST
UK digital publishers expect revenue growth to slow significantly this year, thanks to a worsening economic climate. In its 2007 census, a sample of the 160 members of the Association…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 02:24 AM PST
City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:50 AM PST
- PCC web complaints: You know you’re having an influence when people start to complain about you - and more readers are now complaining about online newspaper articles than print…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:55 AM PST
- WSJ US: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) will this month begin selling the main US edition of Wall Street Journal in the UK. It’s not the FT-killer some think it…
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 - Tue 18 Mar 2008 04:01 PM PST
Paid-for newspapers are haemorrhaging readers to their free web editions - but only making about a fifth of the money they could online, according to a report out Wednesday morning…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Mar 2008 08:36 AM PST
FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN code which can…
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