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Quark acquires Mobile IQ
Quark has announced its acquisition of Mobile IQ, creators of PressRun, the cloud-based digital publishing solution developed to deliver innovative, interactive tablet and mobile experiences.
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
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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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Atex advertising systems go-live in US
Atex has announced three new Atex Advertising system go-lives in the US.
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PCC rules on harassment claim from MP
The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that the Sunday Mirror did not breach Clause 4 (Harassment) of the Editors' Code of Practice when seeking comments for publication from the Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, Andrew Robatha
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Board Change at Trinity Mirror
The Board of Trinity Mirror plc has announced that David Grigson will take up his appointment as Chairman on 29th May 2012.
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Future’s cycling and triathlon sites introduce free training tools
BikeRadar.com threw down the gauntlet, and their readers have snatched it up, after the cycling and triathlon titles challenged cyclists to clock up 1,000 miles in the month of May, one reader has hit that figure in barely two weeks.
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Steve Hall is crowned Editor of the Year for 2011
Steve Hall, of the Derby Telegraph, was named Editor of the Year at Friday’s Regional Press Awards for 2011.
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Conde Nast to offer advertisers Adobe tablet metrics
Condé Nast Digital Britain claims to be the first UK magazine publisher to provide advertisers with ad-specific metrics for tablet editions from the June 2012 issues onwards, it was announced last week.
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eBay Fashion sponsors new Marie Claire app
Marie Claire, IPC Southbank’s premium fashion brand, has secured eBay Fashion as sponsor of its newly launched Marieclaire.co.uk app for iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
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Media Pioneer Awards – winners announced
The winners of the 2012 Media Pioneer Awards were announced at the Specialist Media Show on 24 May at Thinktank Birmingham.
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MailOnline continues to set the pace
MailOnline is the number one newspaper website in the world, and it retains its position as the biggest UK newspaper website for the twenty-seventh month running.
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T3 is fully optimised for iPad3
The iPad edition of T3, Future’s consumer technology brand, is now punchier, cleaner and more vibrant than ever after a full optimisation inspired by the astonishing clarity of the recently released third-generation iPad.
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PCC upholds complaint against Daily Record
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Daily Record after it published a photograph of the body of a man - who had died in a road traffic accident the day before - in the vehicle in which he had died.
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Cut off extension questioned by NFRN
The announcement by the NPA to extend newspaper cut off times by one hour on special occasions has been questioned by the NFRN who have data that, they say, indicates a damaging effect on sales.
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Editorial appointments at CVG
Future Publishing’s flagship games news website CVG has announced three new editorial appointments.
FEATURE
InPublishing Tip 5 – Thank the PRs
Much as we would like to pretend otherwise, the news pages of most B2B sites, and a great many consumer ones too, rely on press releases to sustain them. When you run a press release, writes James Evelegh, take a minute to thank the PR. It pays divid
