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Informa sells training businesses
19 July: Informa plc has signed a definitive agreement to sell its five Corporate Training businesses to Providence Equity Partners for a total consideration of up to $180m.
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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Informa raises £83,000 for World Cancer Research Fund
Informa’s annual Go Bananas fundraising initiative has raised an impressive £82,814 for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
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The Co-operative calls for Lads’ Mags to cover up
The Co-operative Retail Trading Group has requested publishers of lads' mags to put them in sealed modesty bags or they will be withdrawn from sale in over 4000 Co-operative stores.
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CAR uses Mirri covers to celebrate 50 years of Porsche 911
Bauer Media’s CAR magazine has published a spectacular event issue to celebrate 50 years of the Porsche 911.
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New international appointments confirm further growth for BMJ
BMJ, one of the world’s leading healthcare knowledge providers, has created two new Managing Director posts in India and the US, ahead of planned growth in these two important territories.
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FT report first half results
26 July: First half results for the Financial Times Group have been published by Pearson.
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New look for ELLE Collections
25 July: ELLE Collections has been redesigned with the introduction of a fashion first newspaper pull-out, a Chinese shopping guide and two world exclusives.
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NFRN anger at Newsquest terms cut
25 July: Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest has angered the NFRN by increasing the cover prices on two more of its newspapers – this time in Yorkshire - while cutting retailer terms.
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MailOnline breaks record for daily unique visitors in UK
25 July: The MailOnline broke its record for average daily unique visitors in the UK, reaching a high of 3,642,330 last month, 1.6% higher than the previous month and a 42.2% increase on June 2012.
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New editor for redesigned ELLE Collections
25 July: ELLE UK has announced the appointment of Rebecca Lowthorpe as Editor of its newly redesigned luxury biannual, ELLE Collections, as well as her promotion to Assistant Editor of ELLE.
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Family Court Reporting: "First Step on the Road to Transparency"
25 July: The Newspaper Society, The Times and other media campaigners pressing for an end to family court secrecy welcomed the "first step on the road to transparency" by Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division.
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Internet display and outdoor see biggest growth in global ad spend
According to Nielsen's quarterly Global AdView Pulse report, Television remained the dominant media type in terms of advertising investment in the first quarter of 2013 with a 59 percent share of media spend share and 3.5 percent growth globally.
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Record number of winners for 2013 Print Futures Awards
This year’s Print Futures Awards, boosted by a £30,000 cash injection from The Printing Charity, attracted a record number of applications and winners.
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Retail Week launches multichannel subscription service
24 July: Retail Week has launched a brand new range of subscriptions packages to offer customers more choice in how they consume Retail Week content and simultaneously revealed its first tablet app, to address the changing information needs of its au
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HSJ launches tablet edition and new subs packages
15 July: EMAP’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) has launched its first tablet edition, making its content available to healthcare leaders on iPads as well as desk-top, mobile and the weekly print magazine.
