FEATURE
One Site Fits All
Strategies for Building Responsive Design Tablet, Mobile and Web Sites, by Peter G. Marsh, Executive Vice President, Global Strategy, Atex Group Ltd.
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
Europe’s Publishers slam parliament’s rejection of IPR Treaty
Europe’s leading publishers have called the European Parliament’s rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) a travesty as MEPs failed to wait for the opinion of the European Court of Justice.
News
Cedar CEO appointed as new Chair of CMA
Cedar CEO Clare Broadbent has been appointed the chair of the newly rebranded Content Marketing Association (formerly the Association of Publishing Agencies).
News
New Player Lets Readers Submit Video To Magazines
A new video player that lets magazine, newspaper publishers and exhibitions receive video content directly from readers, advertisers, exhibitors and delegates has been launched on Videobuilder.
News
Magazine turns up the Heat with AR issue
Leading celebrity magazine, heat, has created extra virtual content for avid readers using an augmented reality app.
News
Monarch extends contract with Polestar
Monarch Travel Group has extended its relationship with Polestar Applied Solutions by renewing its Managed Services contract on a new long-term exclusive agreement.
News
European Publishers call for thorough scrutiny of Google remedies
Newspaper and magazine publishers have repeatedly expressed their concerns about Google's activities in the online search and advertising markets, including what publishers see as its preferential treatment of its own content over that of third parti
News
Immediate acquires Cloth Magazine
Immediate Media Co has expanded its craft portfolio with the acquisition of Cloth Magazine from Real Design and Media.
News
Edge launches fully interactive iPad edition
Edge, the multi-format videogame magazine, has launched a fully interactive iPad edition featuring interactive pages, full-screen video and exclusive extra content.
News
PPA Digital Publishing Awards - shortlist
The 2012 shortlist for the PPA Digital Publishing Awards has just been published.
News
International Content Marketing Awards – open for entries
The Content Marketing Association (CMA), previously the Association of Publishing Agencies (APA), has announced that its annual Awards are open for entries.
News
Beeline launches Publishing Database Solution
Beeline Data Services have now made available their Publishing Database System (PDS) to publishers.
News
Atex celebrates successful TalkingPoint 2012
Following the success of the Atex Global Symposium last year, customers, partners, industry experts and employees, came together last week for Atex TalkingPoint 2012.
News
ShortList’s special Spiderman cover
To celebrate the theatrical release of The Amazing Spider-Man, ShortList Media has teamed up with Sony Pictures and media agency Manning Gottlieb OMD, to create a latticed, leather-effect, glossy cover wrap – a first for ShortList – which will allow
News
Hollyoaks gets internship at Company magazine
Lime Pictures, producers’ of C4’s flagship teen soap Hollyoaks, have joined forces with young women’s fashion title, Company magazine, to highlight the “fantastic opportunities” available to youngsters hoping to land a career in fashion or the media.
