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Mirror Football launches iphone app
Mirrorfootball.co.uk entered the mobile market, last week, with the launch of its new iPhone app.
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
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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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Maria McGeoghan named as MEN editor
Maria McGeoghan has been appointed Editor of the Manchester Evening News (MEN) and Editor-in-Chief of the Manchester weeklies.
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Centaur launches Pitch
Last week Centaur launched Pitch, an online interactive marketplace for agencies.
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WAN-IFRA Condemns Journalist Murders in Honduras
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the killing of five journalists in four separate attacks that took place during March in Honduras.
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WAN-IFRA spotlight on lean production
The guiding principles of the ‘Lean Production’ concept serve as the inspiration for the just published WAN-IFRA Magazine EXTRA, as well as the roadmap for those advanced printing plants featured in the special edition.
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Findaproperty launches ad campaign
One of the UK’s leading property websites, FindaProperty.com will launch a new £11 million consumer broadcast, print, outdoor, and online advertising campaign this Easter, with a theme of home hunting made easier.
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Amazon announces Kindle App for iPad
Amazon.com has announced that its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store.
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AA appoint new Communications Director
The Advertising Association (AA) has appointed Ian Barber as its new Director of Communications to accelerate the organisation’s move towards a more agenda-setting strategy.
FEATURE
Pondering over staff numbers
It’s one of our industry’s imponderables. Suggest to the editor that he needs to cut costs, and he immediately responds that his quality will be affected (until he/she is made Publisher then sit back and watch!) Can one predict, asks Jim Chisholm, wh
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Classic & Sports Car partners with Renault for e-zine
Classic & Sports Car magazine has released its first e-zine, a customer project in partnership with the carmaker Renault UK.
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Golden Joystick Awards moves to new venue
Future, the special-interest media group, today announces that the Golden Joystick Awards will move to a brand-new central London venue in 2010 – the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza, the city’s biggest new hotel in a generation.
FEATURE
Why are we so averse to NPD?
Newspapers are increasingly looking at diversification. Good. But the important question is, says Jim Chisholm, why has it taken a hundred years to get there?
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Freedom Communications migrates into the Cloud
Digital Technology International has announced that the newspaper division of Freedom Communications is migrating it’s DTI circulation management and marketing solution to DTI Cloud, DTI’s cloud computing hosted SaaS (software as a service) environme
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World's Press Condemns Estonia
Leading global and European press and journalist organisations have called on EU-member Estonia to drop a proposal that would force journalists to reveal their sources, saying the move "poses a serious threat to freedom of the press."
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Autocar launches Facebook fan page
Autocar has launched a Facebook fan page – and, says the publisher, you can show your support for Britain’s original car weekly by signing up at www.autocar.co.uk/facebook.
