News Media

Best Practice in Publishing

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Opportunities & Threats: National News Media

What’s the outlook for national news media in 2024? Christian Broughton, CEO of The Independent, looks ahead.

OUT & ABOUT WITH ALAN GEERE

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.

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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REVIEW

A new dawn?

Launched on 29 February, does The New Day have a bright future? Liz Gerard casts her eye over Trinity Mirror’s new national paper…

By Liz Gerard | 01/04/2016

Investigations: Journalists can be heroes

Two films released in the UK this year, writes Jon Slattery, highlight the way brilliant investigative journalism requires strong editors and publishers, teams of dedicated reporters, time and resources.

By Jon Slattery | 01/04/2016

Newspapers – acclimatising to the modern consumer

Modern consumers, especially the young, want to consume news where they are, not where newspapers want them to be, and they want it packaged in the style they’ve become familiar with on social media. Distribution, packaging and audio-visual are all k

By Charlie Beckett | 01/04/2016

Video – making it pay

If the future is video on mobile, how do publishers get in on the act? Monetisation, distribution and production challenges loom large, but, writes Martin Belam, if publishers keep experimenting and watching the metrics, then they’ll get there.

By Martin Belam | 01/04/2016

The BBC and the Press – can they co-exist?

It’s been a love hate relationship right from the start, but one which has got progressively more fraught with the onset of digital and the decline of print. Is the antipathy justified and can they ever work together? Peter Preston says there are som

By Peter Preston | 01/04/2016

REVIEW

Shift 2016 - review

On 1st March, at the British Library, Newsworks held its fourth annual Shift conference, at which the great and the good of the national newspaper world discussed the opportunities and threats facing their sector. Ray Snoddy was there.

By Ray Snoddy | 01/04/2016

Qmuli appointed sole ad delivery method for i newspaper

Qmuli, one of the UK’s leading ad delivery companies, has entered into a partnership with Johnston Press’ i newspaper to become the sole deliverer of ads to the title.

31/03/2016

Times and Sunday Times adopt edition-based digital publishing model

The Times and The Sunday Times have announced the launch of a new combined website and two upgraded smartphone apps that will follow an edition-based publishing model for the first time.

31/03/2016

Beech Holdings wins Local Press Industry’s LBA Award

Manchester based property developer Beech Holdings has been crowned the overall winner of the 2016 Local Business Accelerators scheme, battling against local businesses nationwide to win the grand prize of free local newspaper advertising and mentori

31/03/2016

FT’s Cost per Hour metric honoured at the Digiday Awards

The Financial Times won the award for Best Use of Technology by a Publisher at this year’s Digiday Awards for designing the time-based advertising metric Cost per Hour.

29/03/2016

Guardian US appoints Jill Abramson as political columnist

Guardian US last week announced that Jill Abramson has joined as a political columnist. Abramson will contribute her perspective on key issues relevant to American politics and society.

29/03/2016

NUJ members at Johnston Press Northern Ireland vote for action

Journalists in the News Letter, the Derry Journal and the Morton Newspapers group of regional titles have voted overwhelmingly in support of industrial action in a dispute over pay, redundancy terms, staffing levels and changes to working practices,

24/03/2016

Johnston Press partners with weliketowork.com

Johnston Press yesterday announced a new partnership with on-demand staffing platform weliketowork.com, with the publisher’s nationwide Jobstoday recruitment website.

24/03/2016

SoE Press Awards 2015 – the winners

The Mail on Sunday dominated the main accolades of the Society of Editors Press Awards, held at the London Hilton last night.

23/03/2016