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Best Practice in Publishing

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.

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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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Opportunities & Threats: National News Media

What’s the outlook for national news media in 2024? Christian Broughton, CEO of The Independent, looks ahead.

OUT & ABOUT WITH ALAN GEERE

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.

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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Sutro Digital unveils Technode

Social content agency Sutro Digital has announced the launch of new quarterly technology based magazine Technode.

25/05/2011

Future names Head of Video Production - Games

Future has announced the appointment of David Boddington as Head of Video Production - Games.

24/05/2011

Newspaper Colour Quality Club Launches 10th Edition

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is giving newspapers worldwide the opportunity to prove – and improve – their colour reproduction and printing skills.

24/05/2011

WoodWing partners with Enfocus

WoodWing, a leading supplier of innovative cross-media publishing solutions, has announced that it is teaming up with Enfocus, a leading vendor of modular tools safeguarding job quality and enabling automation throughout the complete media production

23/05/2011

Media Pioneer Awards – Magicalia

The latest Media Pioneer is Magicalia. Carolyn Morgan looks at how their Made for Mums site won a substantial sponsorship budget from Heinz Baby.

By Carolyn Morgan | 20/05/2011

A piece of cake?

BBC GoodFood magazine’s iPad app is widely held to be one of the best of the first generation of magazine tablet apps. Publishing Director Alfie Lewis spoke at the recent PPA conference about what they had learned so far. James Evelegh was taking not

By James Evelegh | 20/05/2011

Response to Hargreaves

Digital Opportunity, A Review of Intellectual Property & Growth, by Professor Ian Hargreaves, was published this week. Mark Owen gives his reaction.

By Mark Owen | 20/05/2011

Print still in favour with today’s tech generation

The latest findings from the National Readership Survey (NRS) show how print publications remain central to the media repertoire of the most avid technophiles, writes Katherine Page.

By Katherine Page | 20/05/2011

Guardian invites developers to hack weekend

Guardian News & Media (GNM) has called on developers to sign up to (H)activate – a hack weekend being run on 18 and 19 June as part of this year's Activate Summit in London.

19/05/2011

Guardian Public Services Awards 2011 open for entries

The 2011 Guardian Public Services Awards, in partnership with Hays, launched this week, and are now open for entries.

19/05/2011

Hargreaves Report shows potential to boost economy

Changes to Intellectual Property systems could add up to £7.9 billion to the UK’s economy, the first report looking at how it can drive growth said yesterday.

19/05/2011

New ABC app traffic metrics support industry developments

Earlier this month, ABC announced the launch of new metrics, agreed by JICWEBS, to measure and evaluate online app activity.

19/05/2011

Trinity Mirror announces Senior Digital Appointment

Trinity Mirror has announced the appointment of Chris Ellis to the newly created role as Managing Director, Digital - Nationals Division.

19/05/2011

WAN-IFRA Newsroom Summit 2011

Gerd Leonhard, the man the Wall Street Journal calls “one of the leading media futurists in the world,” has joined the programme of the upcoming WAN-IFRA International Newsroom Summit, and will provide his insights during a keynote presentation.

19/05/2011