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Desperate measures: closing The Observer

Let's hope it is the nuclear option and it does not come to Guardian Media Group having to close The Observer newspaper. It would be tragic loss and would lead many people to have few options on a Sunday. Guardian Media Group chief executive, Carolyn...

Posted Aug 04 2009, 09:47 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Christian Science Monitor, Eddie Shah, Guardian Media Group, Guardian News & Media, Independent on Sunday, Rocky Mountain News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Buying the Independent? Or not

Is the Independent being sold? There's something happening, what is it exactly? Independent News and Media Chief Executive Gavin O'Reilly has said today there have been no talks with Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev. O'Reilly's comments...

Posted Jun 12 2009, 02:45 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Evening Standard, The Independent

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MediaGuardian.co.uk to go paid for?

Very interesting news coming from Guardian boss Carolyn McCall today at the Fipp World Magazine Congress in London where she is talking about charging for content and MediaGuardian.co.uk could be one of its sites that goes paid for. Carolyn McCall's...

Posted May 05 2009, 01:03 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: paid content, The Guardian, The Independent, The times The Economist, Time Inc

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No independent future - merger, digital or bust

Someone is sitting around with a slide rule today trying to workout what to do about the Independent. Reports say it is up for sale with a merger with the Evening Standard as one option, outright closure a possibility, and going online only another. But...

Posted Apr 28 2009, 11:56 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Taloussanomat, The Independent

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Free lunch is over says The Economist as Indy talks charging

In an editorial today The Economist joins the growing chatter that says the days of (entirely) free content are over. It does so as The Independent and The Times are revealed to be looking seriously at paid-for content. In a piece titled 'The end...

Posted Mar 20 2009, 09:47 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: paid content, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Guardian, The Independent, The times The Economist, Time Inc

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Would you buy a failing newspaper?

Serious question as there is more talk about saving US newspapers and turning some of them into non-profit foundations. Staff at the San Francisco Chronicle are talking of a foundation bid for the paper (sort of like the Guardian) in an effort to save...

Posted Mar 11 2009, 10:54 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 10 comment(s)

Filed under: Craigslist, Eli Broad, Gawker, Hearst, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, the San Francisco Chronicle

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Daily Mirror as a free sheet?

Piers Morgan has a plan for the survival of the Daily Mirror: make it a freesheet. Writing in the British Journalism Review Morgan says that every national newspaper will be free within 10 years and that the Daily Mirror should be the first. Sounds radical...

Posted Dec 01 2008, 12:35 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Daily Mirror, Freesheets, London Lite, Piers Morgan, The Independent, thelondonpaper

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The end of print for The Independent?

It happened recently in the US, but could it happen here? Roy Greenslade writes today about his kill or cure plan for the Independent -- kill off the print version and carry on as a digital paper. As the Independent prepares for a round of 90 editorial...

Posted Nov 26 2008, 03:26 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 10 comment(s)

Filed under: Rupert Murdoch, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Independent

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A reason to read the Independent?

Editors change at national newspapers now and again, but today's confirmation that The Observer editor Roger Alton is taking over from Simon Kelner at the Independent, after fevered (okay, not brow mopping exactly) speculation, could be much more...

Posted Apr 10 2008, 08:56 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: The Guardian, The Independent

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Could the Independent close?

Billionaires are fighting over its future. With Denis O'Brien saying that if he wins control of Independent News & Media he will sell the UK newspapers off, which some commentators are now saying could lead to the 22-year-old loss-making Independent...

Posted Mar 31 2008, 10:47 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: newspapers, The Independent

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Roger Alton at the Independent?

Much excitement in the office after hearing that the respected former Observer editor could be heading to the Independent to take over from Simon Kelner. The Independent is out of tricks and needs some new life and Alton could be the man to bring it....

Posted Mar 04 2008, 04:11 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: The Guardian, The Independent

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Tabloid doom

In a hilarious piece of selective forecasting in the Evening Standard today, Roy Greenslade predicts the death of certain tabloid newspapers, but failed to mention one key one. Now why could that be?Greenslade kicks off by writing about how newspapes...

Posted Jul 25 2007, 05:04 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Daily Express, Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Independent

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The Independent - it's a viewspaper

50 ways to lose readers of your 'newspaper'. The Independent continues its pioneering project to remove news from the paper with its 50 Reasons to love the EU frontpage. I think The Independent has a trajectory like plan: from news, to views,...

Posted Mar 21 2007, 09:49 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: The Guardian, The Independent

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No independent future - merger, digital or bust

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Free lunch is over says The Economist as Indy talks charging

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Would you buy a failing newspaper?

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Daily Mirror as a free sheet?

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The end of print for The Independent?

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