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The Wire launches app
The Wire Magazine has been released as an iPhone / iPad freemium app with 30-day subscriptions.
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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Tesco recruits FuturePlus for new tech site
FuturePlus, the customer publishing agency, has strengthened its publishing partnership with the retail giant Tesco.
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Quark sponsors Digital Magazine Awards
Quark has announced that it is sponsoring the Digital Magazine Awards 2010, a global awards initiative to showcase the best digital magazines and recognise the most influential people in digital publishing today.
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Johnston Press publishes interim results
Johnston Press has published its interim results for the 26 weeks ending 3 July 2010.
FEATURE
8 Things to Consider When Selling Video
Generating video advertising revenue is no longer restricted to simply injecting a 30 second TV ad in-front of some content. Publishers, says Andrew Petherick, are becoming smarter as the needs of their advertisers become broader, readers’ tolerance
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NME launches app
NME has announced that its NME app is available on the App Store.
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Press Ahead wins Iliffe research contract
The North East based media and marketing agency has been awarded the contract to oversee a significant research project on behalf of Iliffe.
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Archant backs new journalism degree
Archant Norfolk has teamed up with City College Norwich to create an “exciting” new journalism degree.
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MusicRadar launches new bass channel and StoreFinder application
Future is strengthening its "fast-growing" musician’s website www.musicradar.com with the launch of two new services – a new channel dedicated to the bass sector, and a bespoke StoreFinder application aimed at driving footfall to independent retailer
FEATURE
Virtual Events
January 2011 sees the launch of Virtual Event World. Show director Neil Fagg explains the thinking behind the event.
FEATURE
Customer publishers take on the digital realm
Customer magazines did extremely well, again, in the recent ABCs. APA COO Julia Hutchison applauds their achievements in print, but notes that the real progress and innovation is now taking place in the digital arena.
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Salt Lake Tribune goes live with DTI ContentPublisher
Digital Technology International has announced that The Salt Lake Tribune, a MediaNews Group property in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, is now live using DTI ContentPublisher for all its print, Web and mobile publishing.
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Virtual event for organisers launched
A fully immersive 3D event where event industry professionals can do business, host their own events, network and source new opportunities has been launched.
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Ocean launches new recruitment tool
In a “ground-breaking” initiative Ocean Media Group has partnered with web design and development company, Abacus e-Media, and ConsultCIH – the consultancy arm of the Chartered Institute of Housing – to launch i-Talent, an “innovative” recruitment ma
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Birmingham Mail launches hyperlocal initiative
The Birmingham Mail has launched a project which aims to bring the daily title closer to the growing hyperlocal sector in the city.
