Associated Newspaper's statement this afternoon that it is likely to close London Lite, hits the reset button for newspapers in the capital. We had three papers for almost three years and now we are back to square one. With the Evening Standard going free earlier this month it was only a matter of...
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 follow yesterday's lunchtime story that...
If a dress cost less than a tenner you have to ask questions about who is being exploited along the chain to produce it so cheaply. And as Primark found to its cost when Panaroma did a bit of digging into the retailer's sources, keeping track of your supply chain when there are numerous contractors...
Take a day off and you miss it. Thelondonpaper to close? It seems unlikely that the Murdochs would abandon the battle and close thelondonpaper, which like its rival London Lite is haemorrhaging piles of cash daily, but would they go for a merger? Peter Preston in the Observer raised the idea of a merger...
It's a shame that unlike New York, London only has one newspaper and as the election campaign for the London Mayor has shown, the city is poorer for it after the paper's non-stop browbeating and stream of negative Ken Livingstone stories as part of its campaign to help elect blonde Tory buffoon...
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 will prevail "once online enthusiasm dies down"...
A fresh war of words has broken out between Associated and News International. In a statement issued this morning, Associated, which publishes the Evening Standard and London Lite, dismissed claims by rival thelondonpaper as misleading. It is calling thelondonpaper irresponsible for increasing its print...
The Evening Standard must be breaking out the bubbly tonight after getting its man – even if he does happen to be London's mayor. I hope Ken Livingstone does appeal against the decision of the disciplinary panel, which has found him guilty of bringing his office into disrepute. It's unelected...
