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UPM signs pressroom waste deal with Prinovis
UPM has signed a five year contract with leading European Print Company, Prinovis’s UK Operation.
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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UPM secure contract with Rochford Council
UPM is to partner Rochford District Council to supply UPM's new materials recovery facility (MRF) at Shotton in North Wales.
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Sun-Times Media live in DTI Cloud
Digital Technology International, (DTI), has announced that the Sun-Times Media Group, based in Chicago, is now live with the first of three phases implementing DTI ContentPublisher in DTI Cloud, DTI's SaaS offering.
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Launch of Press Distribution Charter
A new Press Distribution Charter (PDC) will be launched on 1 November; it will serve as a promise of good service to all retailers of newspapers and magazines.
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FT launches app for Samsung Galaxy
The Financial Times has announced that it will be a launch content partner for the new Samsung Galaxy Tab with a new HTML5-based app preloaded on the home screens of the Android devices in the UK from launch on 1 November.
FEATURE
What business do you think you’re really in?
Sift Groups hosted a seminar recently entitled ‘Publishing is dead – Long live publishing’. One of the sessions was presented by Lawrence Clarke.
FEATURE
Our strategy at the FT
The Financial Times' Ben Hughes welcomes the recent Ipsos MORI survey that shows the title’s continued success in Europe.
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Thoughts on starting a new job…
Mat Toor, the new Head of Digital at Imagine Publishing, looks forward to his new role and gives us his thoughts on current digital trends.
FEATURE
Review of i
Tuesday saw the launch of i, a new daily newspaper from the Independent. Alan Geere gives us his first impressions.
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Sky Magazine Live is Digital Magazine Of The Year
Quark and The Digital Magazine Awards 2010 have announced that Sky Magazine Live is Magazine of the Year.
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FT.com to offer PayPal option
The Financial Times has announced that it has introduced PayPal as a payment option to help facilitate subscription payments on FT.com.
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Dawit Isaak awarded 2011 Golden Pen of Freedom
Dawit Isaak, a founder of Eritrea’s first independent newspaper who has been imprisoned for the past nine years without charge or trial, has been awarded the 2011 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newsp
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Launch of i
Yesterday saw the launch of i, a new daily newspaper from the Independent.
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Jerry Wright voted President of IFABC
Jerry Wright, chief executive of ABC in the UK has been appointed as the next global President of the International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations (IFABC), an elected position he will hold for the next two years.
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Timothy Balding departs WAN-IFRA
Timothy Balding, the Director General for Global Affairs of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has left the organisation after a long career as a leading champion of press freedom and media development world-wide.
