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...
Denis O'Brien, Independent News & Media's second-biggest shareholder, has launched one of his biggest attacks on the company yet, claiming its flagship UK newspaper, The Independent, will close by Christmas. The paper's six monthly circulation figure to August is down by 16.8% to 198...
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...
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...
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 comments follow those in March of Guardian News...
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 is a digital only future really an option at all...
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 of the free lunch', The Economist gives us this...
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 it with names like Craig Newmark floated as buyers...
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...
