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...
While my thoughts are first and foremost with the people that stand to lose their jobs now thelondonpaper is closing , I can't help but think of all the trees that stand to be saved as a result of this. We've all seen the state of the tube during and after the morning rush hour; it's impossible...
No one thing killed TheLondonPaper, but one of my first thoughts on hearing the sad news that TheLondonPaper was to close was is this part of Rupert Murdoch's paid content strategy? The facts are pretty simple: London is the most competitive newspaper market in the world and NI Free Newspapers, which...
According to a report in the Financial Times today, Shortlist and the now defunct free magazine Sport talked at one point about a merger. The men's free weekly Sport magazine suspended publication last week after its French parent company, Sport Media & Strategy, went into administration. According...
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 doesn't it? But with the Daily Mirror's...
Time Out boss Tony Elliott has joined that growing band of ranters who like to blame the BBC for all of their woes. It is 2008 and Time Out sells less than 80,000 copies and it is struggling to face the digital future. Of course it must be the BBC's fault. Elliott might have built a global cottage...
It isn't the worse job in the world, but handing out London's mountain of free papers has to be close, so it's interesting to see what the distributors think of the job themselves in this little documentary. Every distributor has a story and largely it is an immigrant story, handing out papers...
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...
So it's happy birthday to thelondonpaper, the free paper that has livened things up for London's commuters, made a strong play to popularise the colour purple, and is the cause of consternation for sub-editors everywhere. News International's entry into the free newspaper market probably...
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...
