News
Trinity Mirror’s Welsh titles unveil e-editions
16 July, 2013: Trinity Mirror has announced the launch of new tablet e-editions for the Western Mail and Daily Post.
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.
Essential Resources
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.
All Articles
News
Forbes promotes Mark Howard to Chief Revenue Officer
15 July, 2013: Forbes Media has announced the promotion, effective immediately, of the company's SVP of Digital Advertising Strategy Mark Howard to Chief Revenue Officer.
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Centaur Media announces year-end trading statement
On Thursday 11th July, Centaur Media plc, the business information and events group, issued a trading update for the year ended 30 June 2013 and outlined a refocusing of the business around its key markets.
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PCC rejects Linekers’ complaint against The Sun
12 July, 2013: The Press Complaints Commission has published its adjudication on a complaint by Gary and Danielle Lineker against The Sun.
News
Archant's golden staff mean charitable enterprises top 700
Archant staff across the country have been running, climbing, cycling, walking, baking and swimming for numerous good causes and Archant Gold has matched their charitable efforts to the tune of £10,280.
News
Heroic papergirl honoured for role in emergency
A Norwich papergirl who helped a stricken elderly woman just five days into her job has been presented with a £100 cheque and could pick up a national award.
News
Girl Talk’s first Reader Issue
12 July, 2013: Girl Talk Magazine has launched its first ever issue filled with content either starring readers or chosen by them.
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Photography Week iPhone Edition Launches
12 July, 2013: Future has announced further expansion of its digital iPad magazine, Photography Week, by making it available on iPhone.
News
Digital Magazine Awards 2013 - Call for Entry Opens
12 July, 2013: The Digital Magazine Awards is gearing up once again to recognise the world’s most innovative publishing, editorial, and advertising teams. Now in its fourth year, the awards are sponsored by App Studio.
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dmg media launches new Mail on Sunday Plus
12 July, 2013: dmg media, publishers of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, announced they are introducing a Mail on Sunday Plus edition into the Mail Plus iPad app.
SUPPLIER PROFILE
Come talk to us
Are you talking to Mail Publisher Solutions? If you are a consumer magazine publisher, particularly if you are targeting the female or middle England markets and want to acquire more readers, then, says MPS’s Tracey Hart, you should be! If you are a
FEATURE
Search – New Rules for the Same Old Game
With so much publisher focus now centred on apps and paywalls, it is tempting to think of ‘search’ as so last decade. Surely, it’s one less thing to worry about? This would be a mistake, writes Amanda Watlington, because the search game continues to
FEATURE
Has Digital changed the art of headline writing forever?
The well-crafted newspaper headline was a key sales hook, and sub-editors fully understood its importance. Does the rise of the digital world spell the end for the classic headline, asks Peter Sands.
REVIEW
Society of Editors’ Regional Conference
Top speakers drew a decent turnout at the Society of Editors’ regional conference in April. But the most interesting story was unexpected – when one of Britain’s oldest independent publishers announced that online paywalls were coming. Steve Dyson re
INTERVIEW
Mike Ironside - interview
With the plethora of new reading devices and the consequent audience fragmentation, the task of measuring readership has become a mightily complicated one. The National Readership Survey took a big step forward last September with the release of PADD
