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Forbes celebrates success of BrandVoice
Forbes last week marked the three-year anniversary of BrandVoice, its thought leadership and storytelling platform for marketers.
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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Lord Grade to deliver Society Of Editors Lecture
Lord Grade, the former chairman of both the BBC and ITV, will deliver the 2013 Society of Editors Lecture at the Society’s annual conference in November.
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Adam Walker to leave Informa
Informa plc has announced that Adam Walker is to move from his position as Group Finance Director of Informa in order to take up the post of Group Finance Director at FTSE100 engineering firm GKN plc.
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Reaction to Privy Council decision
On Friday, there were predictably divergent reactions to the Privy Council decision on press regulation.
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PPA Advertising Awards 2013 – the winners
O2 scooped two top prizes at the PPA Advertising Awards 2013, the industry’s annual celebration of advertising across multi-platform magazine brands.
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UK Launch: SOFILM
SOFILM, a new film magazine “celebrating the maverick side of movies and TV”, has its UK launch on 24 October. It will be published ten times a year and is priced £3.99.
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Green Star Media launches Basketball Coach Weekly
Specialist digital publishing group Green Star Media is launching a subscription-based basketball magazine to capitalise on the growth of the world’s second biggest team sport, aimed primarily at the US market.
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Royal magazine launch set for Norfolk
A new luxury lifestyle magazine for west Norfolk is set to be launched next week by Archant Anglia.
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Customer focus is key to Archant organisational change
Archant has announced a change in its organisational structure from three trading divisions to two, to enable it to become more “customer-centric”.
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IPC Southbank appoints new Digital Development Director
IPC Southbank has announced the appointment of Rich Sutcliffe as its new digital development director.
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Haymarket acquires stake in digital training company
Haymarket Media Group has cemented a strategic partnership with digital training and online consultancy firm The Knowledge Engineers by taking a minority stake in the business.
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Mike Ironside to step down as NRS CEO
Mike Ironside has announced his intention to step down as CEO of the NRS in June 2014.
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Mark Allen Group acquires Gramophone
One of the most iconic brands in publishing, Gramophone, is to be acquired by the Mark Allen Group, a family-owned independent company with 50 magazines and journals in different markets, including jazz.
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Paul Hood: Publishers must protect audience data from third parties
Publishers must act to stop third parties from grabbing audience data about their sites off the internet and selling advertising on the basis of those measurements, Archant digital director Paul Hood told the World Publishing Expo in Berlin this week
REVIEW
AOP Autumn Conference – My Top Ten Takeaways
On the 3rd October, the great and the good of the digital world gathered for the AOP Autumn Conference at Etc Venues, St Paul’s in London. James Evelegh went along too.
