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Press Awards - the winners
The Press Awards were held on Tuesday, 5th April. The full list of winners is shown below.
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.
Essential Resources
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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LiveTouch Broadcast Solutions Selects PressDisplay
LiveTouch Broadcast Solutions, a provider of interactive touch screens for on-air use, has selected PressDisplay.com from NewspaperDirect to provide more than 1,800 full-content newspapers from 94 countries in its turnkey solution for broadcasters.
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WoodWing launches open format initiative
WoodWing Software has announced that the data format used in its Tablet Publishing Solution is now available as an open format, free of charge.
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Stationers celebrate Times links
Dame Harriet Walter, the famous Shakespearean and TV actress, was amongst the guests at the Stationers’ Company Archive Evening on Monday, 4 April.
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Women in News programme enters second year
The Women In News (WIN) initiative, a leadership programme for African women working in media, launched its second year this week, bringing together 32 women in middle and top management of newspapers in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.
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Hat-trick of new client wins for Jack
Jack Content, the new Conversation Agency specialising in social media and customer publishing, has announced it has added three new clients to its growing portfolio.
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Trinity Mirror Printing (Scotland) attains PEFC certification
PEFC UK has announced that Trinity Mirror Printing (Scotland), which produces The Daily Record newspaper, has successfully attained PEFC Chain of Custody certification, becoming only the second British daily newspaper publisher to do so, after The Gu
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Belfast Telegraph launches iPad and iPhone Apps
The Belfast Telegraph is to launch a daily edition of the newspaper available on iPad and iPhone by the end of April.
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World Newspaper Week brings together Mega-Events
The World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum will both be held for the first time with the annual IFRA Expo, creating a “mammoth” Newspaper Week event in Vienna, Austria, from 10 to 15 October.
FEATURE
Live and online events
Specialist publishers are actively planning live events as extensions of their media brands, writes Carolyn Morgan, and are already experimenting with digital versions such as online networking, webinars and virtual events.
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The Regional Press Awards shortlists
The shortlist for the Society of Editors Regional Press Awards was published yesterday.
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Archant reshapes divisional structures to grow faster
Archant, the community media group, has announced a change in its structure to reduce the number of separate divisions and focus on delivering growth.
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Newsagents applaud DC Thomson
Scottish newsagents have applauded publisher DC Thomson for maintaining pro rata retailer terms alongside a 2p price increase on the Dundee Courier.
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Newspapers World-Wide to Commemorate World Press Freedom Day
What do the Nobel Committee, Google, a Tunisian novelist and a Mexican journalist on the front lines of a drug war all have in common?
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Moving Media+ turns a new page and spins out of Bonnier
Moving Media+, the company that claims to be behind the iPad’s first magazine publishing platform, is now releasing its software to all publishers, and has announced its independence from parent company Bonnier Magazine Group.
