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Total Film to launch interactive iPad edition
Total Film, the modern movie brand for film fans, will launch a fully interactive global iPad edition on Friday featuring interactive pages, exclusive content and full-screen video.
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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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iSUBSCRiBE to launch subs website for WHSmith
iSUBSCRiBE, the online magazine and newspaper subscription superstore, has announced that it will launch and manage a new magazine subscription website for leading magazine retailer WHSmith.
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Liberia To Join Movement to Repeal Criminal Defamation
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has welcomed Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s commitment to press freedom after her public endorsement of the Declaration of Table Mountain, a continent-wide call to repeal
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Outrage at latest journalist killings in Mexico
World Press Freedom Day was marred by the deaths of three photojournalists in the Mexican state of Veracruz, providing a sobering reminder of the extreme dangers faced by the media in a country that systematically fails to enforce the rule of law to
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Guardian Activate to hold summit in India
The Guardian, working in partnership with MediaGuru, is to hold one of its 2012 Activate Summits in India for the first time.
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Montagu to acquire CAP from Top Right Group
Montagu Private Equity LLP, one of Europe's leading private equity firms, has reached an agreement to acquire CAP from Top Right Group (formerly Emap International).
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Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey steps down
Sly Bailey has stepped down as chief executive of Trinity Mirror after almost 10 years at the company.
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Times is official partner to GB men’s hockey
Great Britain Hockey and The Times have announced that they have entered a partnership that will see The Times, Sports Newspaper of the Year, become an Official Partner of the Great Britain men’s squad for the summer.
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Adap.tv strengthens European team
Adap.tv, the company that delivers a programmatic way to plan, buy, sell and measure TV and video advertising, has announced the recent hire of Lewis Sherlock and Anne Peiré; two industry veterans tapped to build upon the growth of Adap.tv in Europe.
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Telegraph signs up to AdGent’s tablet ad platform
AdGent Digital, the global media and technology company, has signed up Telegraph Media Group (TMG) to its recently launched tablet-based advertising platform, AdTouch.
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PCS to power thomsonlocal.com's UK distribution
Midlands-based publishing software developer PCS has won the contract to power the management and distribution of one of the UK’s leading local media companies.
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First FT Non Exec Directors set to graduate
The first cohort pursuing the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Certificate is set to graduate on May 23rd.
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New app for Argyll
The Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard newspaper is launching a new app - Argyll & the Isles - for Android and iPhone technology this week.
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Make a Free Press “The Headline for Democratic Transition”
“A free press is an essential cornerstone of any country based on democracy.” So says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman, in her exclusive interview with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), to mark 3 May, World
FEATURE
InPub Tip 3 - Use Testimonials to Enhance Online Reputation
Your online reputation is hugely important to your business – just witness the impact of negative customer ratings on sales of your shiny new app. But, don’t be passive, urges Ryan O’Meara, take control and use testimonials to your advantage.
