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Ingenta bolsters offering with two new products
Ingenta, a provider of technology solutions to publishers, is offering two new web-based platforms for media organisations – Truly Media and Editorial.
News Media
The newspaper business was built for a world where one product served everyone and advertising paid for most of it. That model has gone. What replaces it is still being worked out title by title, from national groups to weeklies covering a single town.
Reader revenue is the clearest shift. Even Reach, which argued for free access for years, now puts some of its journalism behind a paywall, and the regional titles doing best changed their newsrooms before they asked anyone to pay. Ownership keeps changing too. National World rebuilt local editorships after years of centralisation, and the Observer is being reinvented as a premium print and digital title under new owners.
The strongest publishers understand the difference because they are not trying to be everything to everyone. They are trying to be essential to someone.
Chris Sherrard News media
Local news is where the pressure shows most. Millions of people now live without a dedicated local title, and new reader-funded and membership startups are moving into the gaps. Platforms are pulling back from news at the same time, which leaves trust and a direct relationship with readers as the assets that matter most.
Print hasn't disappeared either. Well-run weeklies still hold on to their readers, with circulation falling slowly while digital audiences grow.
Below you'll find some of our best feature articles on news media, from reader revenue and newsroom change to ownership, local news and trust, alongside our latest news and industry commentary.
Essential Resources
FEATURE
Returning to growth
Where is the growth opportunity for today’s publishers? Douglas McCabe tracks how the commercial model has evolved over the past fifty years and examines whether a better understanding of what online audiences want, will help drive future growth.
Best Practice in Publishing
News media
We asked Chris Sherrard, editor-in-chief of The Irish News, what does best practice publishing look like in news media? This is what he said…
INTERVIEW
Stand and deliver!
After years of resisting paywalls, Reach is now launching them across its titles. But David Higgerson, Reach’s chief content officer, carefully avoided the word ‘U-turn’ when interviewed by Steve Dyson.
INTERVIEW
Change before charge
It’s one thing to think that readers should pay for your journalism, but the reality is that unless you improve your offering, then you will struggle to start charging for it, as DC Thomson Editor-in-Chief Frank O’Donnell tells Ciar Byrne.
INTERVIEW
Ditching the generic
How can you edit a regional newspaper when you never visit the area you’re writing about? By filling it with generic content, an approach that National World’s David Montgomery, the new owner of JPI Media, is rapidly doing away with.
INTERVIEW
The Observer’s premium future
Ray Snoddy talks to Co-CEO Rich Furness about the thinking behind Tortoise Media’s acquisition of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and about their plans for its future.
FEATURE
Opportunities & Threats: National News Media
What’s the outlook for national news media in 2024? Christian Broughton, CEO of The Independent, looks ahead.
FEATURE
Breathing new life into local media
There is a new generation of entrepreneurs launching local media businesses, bringing with them new ideas on business models and funding. Phil Clark looks at some of the stand-out examples.
OPINION
We Need Trusted News Brands Now More Than Ever
With Meta backing away from ‘news’ and AI accelerating the growth of disinformation, we need to redouble our efforts to safeguard access to quality journalism, says News Media Association Chief Executive Owen Meredith.
OUT & ABOUT WITH ALAN GEERE
Weekly does it
East Lothian is not just the best place to live – it has the best newsbrand too. Alan Geere heads over the border to find out what’s happening in the world of Scottish weeklies.
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The Guardian achieves JICWEBS’ brand safety certification
The Guardian has achieved brand safety certification from JICWEBS - the independent UK cross industry body that sets best practice and standards for online ad trading.
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Guardian Weekly to become weekly news magazine
The Guardian has announced that it is turning its international weekly newspaper - Guardian Weekly - into a weekly news magazine.
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AOP announces agenda for Digital Publishing Summit 2018
The Association for Online Publishing (AOP) recently unveiled the full programme for its summit aimed, it says, at giving industry leaders the insights needed for success across the digital publishing industry.
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PCS Announce New Managing Director
Graeme Clifford has been appointed as managing director of publishing software company Press Computer Systems.
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The Independent puts up partial paywall
The Independent yesterday launched Independent Minds, which it describes as “a membership scheme for those who value free-thinking journalism”.
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FT boosts global technology coverage with new editorial team
The Financial Times is expanding its coverage of technology, with more reporters stationed around the globe, a new editing team based in London, and a new FT.com destination where readers can go for all FT technology coverage.
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The Times and The Sunday Times top business leaders survey
The Times and The Sunday Times are the UK newspapers of choice for British business leaders according to the latest results of the 2018 Global Business Influencer survey.
COMMENT
Not exactly Bodyguard
James Evelegh's editorial from today's edition of InPubWeekly.
REVIEW
All together now
Students on this year’s ACE Empower programme concluded their course by presenting the results of their research projects to industry leaders at a special event at Northcliffe House on 13th September. They made a number of recommendations on how the
News
Cairncross: NMA Calls For Licence Fee Agreement With Tech Giants
A fair and equitable content licence fee agreement would ensure that news media publishers are appropriately rewarded for the use of their content by the tech giants, safeguarding the future of independent journalism which underpins our democracy, th
MEDIA FUTURES
The Big Picture
Media Futures is an annual benchmarking project, now in its ninth year, undertaken by Wessenden Marketing in partnership with InPublishing. With the fieldwork for 2018 just completed, Jim Bilton looks at the top-level findings.
FEATURE
The Leisure Principle
Newspaper readers want more than just news – they need help curating the weekend and figuring out how to spend their money. Tim Robinson explains how leisure is still a big part of the content mix and how regional print is fighting back at the weeken
REVIEW
How content is powering new digital publishing business models
The Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in June brought together a diverse group of speakers from beyond traditional print publishing: digital start-ups, broadcasters, agencies and brands using content to attract an audience. Carolyn Morgan was ther
FEATURE
The only way is up!
There is a lot of negativity in the regional press at the moment, which Oxford Mail editor Samantha Harman is keen to dispel. Success is still possible, and she has seven top tips on how you can go about achieving it.
