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Newsworks announces 2017 Planning Awards shortlist
The 2017 Planning Awards shortlist features agencies including OMD, the7stars, Goodstuff, MediaCom and Spark Foundry.
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.
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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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AOP to drive digital media clean up with Ad Quality Charter
The Association for Online Publishing (AOP) has today issued a call to arms for the industry to collaborate in raising digital media standards by signing a new Ad Quality Charter.
COMMENT
Ad blocking: it’s not over
James Evelegh's editorial from today's edition of InPubWeekly.
Q&A
5 minutes with… Jan de Roos
In London recently to attend the FIPP World Congress, we grabbed five minutes with Jan de Roos, chief executive officer of multi-channel publishing and digital asset management specialists, WoodWing Software.
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NFRN and Mail unveil Nectar Millionaire
Mail Newspapers has awarded Jonathan Powell of The Newsagent Direct in Newport one million Nectar points.
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Guardian partners with other titles on new migration series
The Guardian has partnered with Der Spiegel, El País, La Stampa, Le Monde and Politiken on a new journalism project - Migration crisis: new routes to Europe.
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Guardian reaches 500,000 milestone
The Guardian yesterday announced it now has 500,000 regular paying supporters - made up of members and subscribers in more than 100 countries who make regular financial contributions to the publication.
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Canada strengthens the protection of journalists’ sources
The International Federation of Journalists has welcomed the new Canadian law protecting confidential sources of journalists that was approved on 18 October.
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British Journalism Awards 2017 – shortlists revealed
Press Gazette yesterday announced the finalists for the 2017 British Journalism Awards.
COMMENT
Honing your mobile strategy
James Evelegh's editorial from today's edition of InPubWeekly.
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Ad viewability hits 18-month high
For the first time since it started measuring ad viewability, the level in the UK rose for two consecutive quarters – to hit the highest mark for 18 months – according to the latest quarterly benchmark report from ad verification company Meetrics.
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ESPN, FourFourTwo and Guardian team up for World Cup
ESPN, FourFourTwo and the Guardian have announced that they will form a commercial partnership for the Russia World Cup 2018.
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DC Thomson Publishing rebrands as DC Thomson Media
To reflect the transformation from traditional publisher to modern media creator and distributor, the publishing arm of the business is rebranding as DC Thomson Media.
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Ian Murray appointed Executive Director of Society of Editors
Ian, who undertook the role of Deputy Executive Director in April of this year, takes over from Bob Satchwell who is standing down due to ill health and who has held the role since the Society’s foundation in 1999.
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Newsquest relaunches the Despatch
The team behind The Northern Echo has revived a weekly sister newspaper - the Despatch - which has not been published for 31 years.
