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Telegraph improves its app
Telegraph Media Group has launched an updated and enhanced version of its iPhone application that provides users with faster download speeds, offline functionality and is free to download or upgrade.
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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PCS to launch Knowledge at Pub Expo
PCS has chosen Publishing Expo at London’s Olympia 2 in February, 2010 to officially launch its content management and publishing system, Knowledge.
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Mirror Group appoints new media agency
Mirror Group has announced that it has selected Arena BLM as its new media buying agency.
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PistonHeads sponsors motor race
Haymarket’s PistonHeads.com has signed up as the title sponsor for the 2010 Caterham Academy, a race that is known for introducing aspiring racing drivers to motorsport.
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CV-Library delivers ABCe audit of CV Registrations
The first ever CV Registration audit in the UK industry has been undertaken by a leading UK independent job site CV-Library.
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World's Press asks Google to respect copyright
The newspaper industry's representative association made an impassioned defence of copyright to Google's chief attorney on Thursday, calling for "a more rigorous and unambiguous acceptance" of publishers' rights to decide how their content is used.
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Lebanon to Host World’s Press in 2010
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced that the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, 17th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, will be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7 to 10 June 2010.
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Gavin O'Reilly elected president of WAN-IFRA
Gavin O'Reilly, the Chief Executive Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, has been elected the first President of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the organisation created by the July merger of the
FEATURE
From Town Crier to Bloggers
Rupert Murdoch’s speech to the Federal Trade Commission’s Workshop: From Town Crier to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? (December 1, 2009.)
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PCC rejects privacy complaint about Facebook comments
The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint on behalf of a serving police officer about published comments in The People that he had made on Facebook about the death of Ian Tomlinson during the London G20 protests.
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CoreMedia launches CoreMedia V
CoreMedia has launched CoreMedia V, what it claims is one of the market's most comprehensive and extensible Web Content Management suites.
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Pressmart partnership with WSJ Asia
Worldwide print-to-online publisher, Pressmart, formally announces the launch of their latest newspaper eEdition for The Wall Street Journal Asia.
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Two Sides forestry competition
Two Sides is offering five competition winners the opportunity to visit the forestry and papermaking facilities of one of Europe's leading paper producers.
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Printers’ Charity joins with Stationers’s Foundation
The Printers’ Charitable Corporation (PCC) and the Stationers’ Foundation are joining forces for “the benefit of everyone in the printing industry”.
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CEVA secures distribution contracts
CEVA Logistics has announced the signing of a five year deal to manage UK distribution for the Telegraph Media Group, and three year contracts with the Express and Sport newspaper groups.
