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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
What’s the outlook for national news media in 2024? Christian Broughton, CEO of The Independent, looks ahead.
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.
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.
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.
Carbuyer.co.uk, Dennis Publishing’s car reviews website, celebrates its fourth birthday this month with the news that it has generated 100 million video views on its YouTube channel.
Vogue China is claiming to be the first fashion title in the world to style the Apple Watch on its cover.
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC hosted its first external Hackathon on 4th-5th October 2014.
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vjoon, a leading global provider of software solutions for managing digital content, announced last week that the media agency BISSINGER[+] has opted for vjoon K4 and is already using the cross-media publishing platform's efficient, highly automated
GoodStuff, Initiative, MediaCom, Mindshare, and UM London claimed the spoils at this year’s PPA Advertising Awards, which celebrate the best planning across multi-platform magazine brands in the UK.
Lineup Systems, the global advertising sales solution provider, has won a major contract with Mexico’s second largest publisher Grupo Expansión to implement print, digital and self-service components of their advertising system AdPoint.
Guardian News & Media (GNM) yesterday confirmed that Rachel White has been appointed to the new role of Director, Philanthropic & Strategic Partnerships based in Washington DC.
Readly, the app for reading digital magazines based on an “all-you-can-read” business model, and Europe’s largest magazine publisher Bauer Media Group has entered into a global agreement in reference to digital distribution of Bauer magazines.
Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and Celtra Inc this week announced the launch of two new high impact advertising formats for The Telegraph’s mobile site.
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has released the findings of its annual Content and Trends Census.
Forbes Media announced this week the launch of new BrandVoice homepages that will allow BrandVoice marketers to scale their digital presence by republishing on Forbes.com brand content from other publishers.
Readly, the international digital platform allowing subscribers to read unlimited digital magazine content for a single monthly subscription, has been granted accreditation by ABC.
There is a new look to one of the newspaper’s industry’s leading events. Formerly known as The Newspaper Awards, newsawards 2015 has a fresh new format that focuses on three distinct category divisions – Print, Digital and Business.
The Content Marketing Association (CMA), the industry body for the content marketing industry, has announced first details of its line-up for the fifth annual International Content Marketing Summit and Awards Kings Place in London on November 26 2014
Britons increasing appetite for watching video content on computers, tablets and mobile phones helped drive digital advertising spend up 16.6% to a record £3.5 billion in the first half of 2014 – according to the latest Internet Advertising Bureau UK
