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New Chairman announced for AOP
The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has announced the appointment of John Barnes, Managing Director, Digital & Tech at Incisive Media as the new AOP Chairman with immediate effect.
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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Factory Launches Mpora Gear
Mpora.com, the digital action sports platform has launched Mpora | Gear to its 4 Million monthly users.
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Evening Standard’s literacy campaign wins prize
The London Evening Standard's ‘Get London Reading’ literacy campaign has won the Brit Writers’ People’s Prize for Literacy Development from the Brit Writers’ Awards.
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IPC Inspire appoints Matthew Gerry as Digital Strategy Director
IPC Inspire, the men’s division of IPC Media, has appointed Matthew Gerry as its digital strategy director.
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Honda and Guardian team up to find cultural engineers
Guardian News & Media has teamed up with Honda to find Britain's 'cultural engineers' of the future, with the brightest innovators competing for the opportunity to have their ideas turned into reality.
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ProImage introduces Eversify
ProImage takes its production automation expertise to the cloud with Eversify, a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution.
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IPC titles devise digital watermarking campaign for Armani
L’Oréal Luxury has partnered with Marie Claire and InStyle to promote Armani Code with a multi-platform campaign that uses digital watermarking to unlock additional content.
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Tom Olsen Lecture: An unholy alliance of Press, Police and Politicians?
This year’s Tom Olsen Lecture, entitled ‘An unholy alliance of Press, Police and Politicians?’, was given by the Society of Editors’ Bob Satchwell on Thursday 6 October 2011 at St Bride’s Fleet Street.
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Haymarket appoints Head of Search
Drew Broomhall, currently the Head of Search Engineering at News International, will help with the business and editorial strategy of Haymarket Consumer’s growing portfolio of specialist sites.
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Quark announces Digital Magazine Awards 2011 judging panel
Quark has announced the full list of judges for the Digital Magazine Awards 2011. Quark also announced that the deadline to submit entries to the competition has been extended to 21st October 2011.
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FT premium audience grows with addition of mobile apps
The Financial Times has announced the latest figure for its Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA), which for the first time includes users of smartphone and tablet apps.
FEATURE
What’s new at T3.com
T3.com has changed. We’ve changed what we publish, we’ve changed the way we publish and we’re busy changing what people expect from a consumer tech website, writes T3.com editor, Kieran Alger.
FEATURE
An unholy alliance of Press, Police and Politicians?
This year’s Tom Olsen Lecture, entitled ‘An unholy alliance of Press, Police and Politicians?’, was given by the Society of Editors’ Bob Satchwell on Thursday 6 October 2011 at St Bride’s Fleet Street.
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New venue for Specialist Media Show 2012
The Specialist Media Show will take place on 24 May 2012 at Think Tank in Birmingham.
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iPhone 4s will be biggest yet, says TechRadar
There was surprise this week as Apple revealed an upgraded iPhone 4S rather than the rumoured iPhone 5, but it did little to dampen enthusiasm for the biggest tech launch of the year.
