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Horse & Hound launches Smartphone App
Horse & Hound, IPC Inspire's equestrian weekly, has launched its first app for smartphones.
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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.
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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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WoodWing offers new newsfeed solution
WoodWing Software, a leading supplier of innovative cross-media publishing solutions, and The Saints, an expert in mobile software development, have announced a Newsfeed Solution for the iPhone and smartphones that run Android.
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Hull Daily Mail commemorates the Blitz
The Hull Daily Mail has commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Blitz by publishing the names of 1,241 men, women and children who died in the raids.
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New Digital Photographer website
Digital Photographer is celebrating the launch of its new website – DPhotographer.co.uk – which goes live with 170,000 images.
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WSJ launches "SafeHouse" Site for Secure Submission
The Wall Street Journal has launched SafeHouse, a service that allows users to upload and submit tips, information, documents or files directly to the Journal.
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The Guardian: 190 years in 190 tweets
The Guardian celebrates its 190th anniversary on 5th May, and will be marking the occasion by tweeting articles, images and adverts – one for every year of its history – throughout May, providing a fascinating insight into how the newspaper has evolv
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Guardian First Book Award to invite reader nominations
For the first time this year, members of the public will be able to suggest books that they think should be considered for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award.
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Yudu Media launches its “Dual Subscriptions System”
Digital publishing company Yudu Media has launched its new ‘dual subscriptions’ system; which it claims is the first alternative subscription system compliant with Apple.
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Motors.co.uk goes mobile
Motors.co.uk, one of the UK leading used car websites, has launched a dedicated mobile site to provide consumers with further choice in their car search process.
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Japan Times chooses WoodWing Enterprise
WoodWing Software, an innovation leader in the field of cross-media and tablet publishing, has announced that the daily newspaper The Japan Times has chosen WoodWing’s cross-media publishing system Enterprise as its new editorial production system.
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WSJ launches CFO Journal Premium Service
The Wall Street Journal has launched CFO Journal, a new premium service tailored specifically to the needs of chief financial officers and other senior financial executives.
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Metro launches Venture Candy competition
Metro, the free urban national newspaper, launches Venture Candy 2011 to find the businesses and entrepreneurs of the future.
FEATURE
Review of Digital Media Europe conference
When a speaker at a media conference refers to the traditional desktop-based internet as "the old-fashioned internet", you know that the media world is evolving faster than ever, writes WAN-IFRA’s Larry Kilman.
FEATURE
Paid Content – what can publishers really charge?
With all the speculation about paid content, writes Carolyn Morgan, we’ve been missing some hard facts about exactly what publishers are managing to charge for and the type of business models they are testing.
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Content Discovery Trends across the Web’s Leading Publishers
Outbrain has recently published its first quarterly study looking into trends in content discovery. David Sasson looks at the key findings.
