Coverage of the UK media business will be among the casualties of the upcoming restructure at The Observer in 2010. As details of the cost-cutting drive at one of the country’s oldest national newspapers start to emerge , it transpires the Business & Media section will be folded into the main paper...
When the fate of some newspapers is to disappear for good Guardian News & Media's decision to pare down The Observer to four sections rather than close it outright was clearly a tough one in this climate, but it makes a lot of sense and it should be congratulated. As reported last night The Observer...
In a surreal moment, the respected media analyst and futurologist Rio Ferdinand has linked the fact that the England-Ukraine match is going to be online pay-per-view to the recent claim that internet advertising has ‘overtaken’ TV advertising : "I read that online advertising has taken over from...
I’m supposed to be having a day off. Fat chance. You might have noticed a story put out by our cousins at the IAB that claims online advertising has now overtaken TV to become the ‘biggest single advertising medium in the UK’ (by spend). We find the IAB’s story odd because the internet is not a single...
On hearing the news this morning that The Economist is to charge for news content across its site I was wondering why they waited so long. The Economist is a natural for paid content in the same way that the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times are. They are likely to end up being select members...
The news today that the Mail Online is to stop checking user comments before they go live could not only make it the most visited website in the UK, but possibly the one with the largest and most active community. A potentially very powerful combination. New Media Age is reporting that Associated Newspapers...
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 McCall, has confirmed in a memo that executives...
Everyone who works online and has anything to do with publishing should be reading this. A report out today that attempts to map the carnage in publishing and take a guess at the future. Full of good nuggets. With nods to both the Guardian's Emily Bell ("We are on the brink of two years of carnage...
John Gapper in the FT today has a good piece on the woes of the New York Times, but he says the Gray Lady is one of the "few print publications with a good chance of thriving in the digital age". It has been a helluva week for the New York Times as mogul David Geffen emerged as someone being...
That's what PricewaterhouseCoopes says in its 'Outlook for Newspaper Publishing in the Digital Age' report out today. The report looks at how the newspaper industry can face up to the structural challenges that have seen paid for titles lose circulation volume while advertisers have been...
