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Gutteridge and Dacre join North East News
Tom Gutteridge and Nigel Dacre join Trinity Mirror, Press Association and Ten Alps bid for North East Regional News tender.
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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Waterstone’s signs contract with Maxymiser
Waterstone’s, the leading bookseller, has signed a contract with conversion management expert, Maxymiser, to drive a significant improvement in onsite conversion rates and online revenues.
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Media CSR Website for Media Literacy
A website aimed at fostering society's media literacy skills has been set up by the members of the Media Corporate Social Responsibility Forum - a group of organisations working to develop social responsibility and environmental sustainability for th
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New body to fight for press freedom
Leading journalists and media lawyers met in New York yesterday to discuss ways of fighting legal threats to press freedom around the world.
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NS calls for action on Council Newspapers
Following publication of the Audit Commission’s conclusions on council publications this week, the NS is calling for an urgent meeting with the Government.
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AOP Awards 2010 – Call for Entries
The Association of Online Publishers’ (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards, now in its ninth year, opens its call for entries from 26th January 2010.
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Archant staff awards
Archant has honoured staff, teams and publications from right across the company and hailed them as “the best in the industry” at its annual Archant Awards lunch held at the Landmark Hotel in London on Friday (January 22).
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Telegraph selects FinancialForce.com
FinancialForce.com, the new cloud accounting company formed with investment from Unit 4 Agresso and salesforce.com, has announced that Telegraph Media Group has selected its solutions for use in its media sales department.
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NS response to Audit Commission
The Audit Commission has announced its findings in relation to council publications and communication with the public. The Newspaper Society has released the following statement in response:
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Metro launches apps
Metro UK and Metro Herald Ireland have released new iPhone applications, enabling users to instantly read their latest newspapers, get live news, scroll and search content and access archived editions.
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More than 16,800 watch Autosport on YouTube
Videos from the Autosport International show recently helped Autosport.com’s YouTube channel to challenge the popularity of mainstream broadcasting giants on YouTube, including the BBC and ITN.
FEATURE
Micropayment – A burning platform for publisher collaboration
Most news based publishers are wrestling with the idea of charging for content; they look enviously at iTunes and wonder why that model can’t be replicated for news. Deloitte’s Tom Frazer looks at the ins and outs of micropayments and outlines what i
FEATURE
New money
It is generally recognised that post recession publishing will not see a return to the old financial model. Structural changes mean that there is significant and growing revenue shortfall and publishers are now searching far and wide for new ideas. A
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Free dailies 2010: the age of the happy monopolist
Free newspapers were one of the big stories of the noughties, and came to symbolise the primacy of ‘free’ and the imminent demise of paid-for papers. No longer! Piet Bakker charts their rise and fall and describes the conditions in which some might t
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Online advertising – what does 2010 have in store?
Advertising spend has been one of the principal casualties of the recession. However, the decline in online advertising has not been as cataclysmic as in print, and it has increased its share. As we come out of recession, that trend is likely to acce
