Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 14 May 2012 at 10:22
Tags: Journalism
Trinity Mirror chairman which Sir Ian Gibson could retire from the board months ahead of schedule, according to Sky News.
A report by City editor Mark Kleinman this morning claimed:
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 9 May 2012 at 10:02
Tags: Journalism
Ely Standard editor Debbie Davies has left the paper following an editorial restructure at Archant Herts & Cambs’s weekly newspapers
John Elworthy, editor of sister titles the Wisbech Standard and Cambs Times, takes over as editor of the Ely Standard. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 1 May 2012 at 08:37
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Commons culture committee investigating phone-hacking at the News of the World is expected tofind former News of the World editor Colin Myler, legal chief for the paper Tom Crone and former executive Les Hinton all guilty of misleading the Parliament, according to reports.
An ITV News exclusive by political correspondent Lucy Manning said the committee, which is due to publish its eagerly anticipated report this morning, was split over whether former News International executive chairman James Murdoch misled the committee
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 30 March 2012 at 08:49
Tags: Journalism
Shares in regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press fell 13.6 per cent yesterday after it announced it was delaying publication of its annual results in order to continue talks on renewing its debt.
Newsquest-owned title the Herald reported today that following this morning’s announcements its shares fell 1.03p to 6.5p, noting how the company – which was once valued at as much as £1bn – now had a market worth of just £41.6m.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 22 March 2012 at 15:41
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, Mobile, New Media, Online
The roll out of 140 mobile phone apps at Johnston Press has seen the number of monthly unique users rise by 2m, according to chief executive Ashley Highfield.
He put the 25 per cent increase down to attracting a “younger, male, more upmarket demographic who find us by Googling on the mobile phone.”
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 14 March 2012 at 08:28
Tags: Journalism
Sky News and the Telegraph Media Group have both announced new smartphone apps.
Sky has today launched Version 2 of its iPhone app, which has been downloaded more than 3 million times.
Bespoke content for the app includes picture galleries, interactive images, graphs, timelines and live blogging including Twitter updates.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 6 March 2012 at 12:43
Tags: Journalism
For this month’s edition of Press Gazette magazine media law consultant Cleland Thom wrote a piece on the potential dangers of tweeting from court. It followed the incident where a Guardian reporter was referred to the Attorney General for tweeting the name of a juror and details of legal argument that took place in the absence of the jury.
This morning we published excerpts of that feature - which resulted in a strong response on Twitter.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 20 February 2012 at 15:55
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Newsquest daily The Northern Echo has invested £10,000 to help save Darlington Football Club from being liquidated.
The paper reports the money will be used to buy shares in Darlington FC 1883 Ltd, a new company that hopes to purchase the club. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 17 February 2012 at 08:56
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
A pregnant mum has been left with a “bizarre craving” for eating her local newspaper, the Dundee Evening Telegraph.
Ann Curran told the Scottish Sun the Telegraph is the only “only newsprint with the proper flavour” and that she “stashes shredded copies in her handbag for emergency snacks”.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 13 February 2012 at 11:24
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, Law, New Media
The Central European News agency has hailed a victory over a rival website it claimed repeatedly lifted its stories.
Last autumn CEN discovered its content was being “copied wholesale” after it accepted a two-week trial with Alexa, a company that helps agencies find out where their material is being used.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 10 February 2012 at 15:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Media Metrics
The Financial Times now reaches a global audience of 2.2 million, according to figures released by the newspaper today.
The figures were compiled using the FT’s own metric – the Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA) - a combination of print, online, mobile and tablet access to the FT.
In November 2011 FT.com daily had on average 900,000 unique users, a 36 per cent year-on-year increase, while the number of mobile users rose 66 per cent between May to November 2011 and the number of people accessing the FT on tablets rose 71 per cent during the same period.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 6 February 2012 at 13:24
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has found no evidence to support allegations that a Surrey police officer passed information to journalists during the investigation into the disappearance of Milly Dowler in 2002.
The IPCC said the matter was referred to them in August 2011 after they received information from three newspaper journalists that they were going to publish the allegations. (more…)
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 1 February 2012 at 00:10
Tags: Journalism
The home of Information Commissioner whistleblower Alec Owens – who believes official figures on the extent of blagging by journalists were “grossly understated” – was raided by police 12 days before he was due to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry.
A report in The Independent said that Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, wrote to the Chief Constable of Cheshire Police, David Whatton, asking for a search to be carried out on Owens’ home in a move described by a Labour MP as a “total misuse of resources and power”.
Owens led the ICO’s Operation Motorman investigation into the activities of private investigator Steve Whittamore, who supplied a “treasure trove” of legal and illegal personal information to journalists.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 31 January 2012 at 11:48
Tags: Journalism, Media Business
The National Union of Journalists has called for the “public outrage” directed at RBS chief executive Stephen Hester over his bonus payments to be aimed at directors of Trinity Mirror.
The union claimed that senior executives “are pocketing more than £1.3 million a year - equivalent to 50 journalism jobs” while journalists “are being told to endure their second 12-month pay freeze in four years, coming after over 700 jobs were culled in the last year alone”.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 31 January 2012 at 10:09
Tags: Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Online
Magazine Golwg has launched what it claims to be the first ever app for a Welsh language title.
Ap Golwg is available to download on the iPad, iPhone and iPod and allows users buy a digital version of the weekly title, which includes additional video and sound content.
The digital magazine - which was was developed with the support of the Wales Books Council - can be bought by either a 12-month, 6-month or 3-month subscription package or for £1.49 per copy.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 27 January 2012 at 11:03
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, press freedom
The Leveson Inquiry will focus on the role of regulators next week when representatives from the Press Compliants Commission, media regulator Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Agency will give evidence.
On Monday the current director of the PCC, Stephen Abell, will appear at the inquiry, as well as former director Tim Toulmin.
Tuesday will see evidence from the former chairman of both the BBC and ITV, Michael Grade, who joined the PCC as a public member in April.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 27 January 2012 at 09:23
Tags: Journalism, New Media, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield has revealed that every newspaper in the group has a “healthy” profit margin of more than 20 per cent – and that he sees the company’s future “beyond print”.
In an interview with In Publishing, Highfield said:
Yes I have absolutely no previous newspaper experience but the board had already made the decision that the future of Johnston Press lay in moving the organisation beyond print and that was explained to me in the first sentence.
Not closing down print but moving beyond an almost entirely solus print operation.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 26 January 2012 at 11:10
Tags: Journalism
Mail Online is now the world’s biggest newspaper website after overtaking the New York Times, according to new figures from Comscore
Data from the online tracking service shows Mail Online reached 45.3 million people last December compared to the Times’s 44.8 million.
This compares with more flattering figures released by ABC which suggest Mail Online was accessed by nearly 85m “unique browsers” in November (the latest month it has audited).
Trailing the top two are USA Today, Tribune Newspapers spot and then The Guardian.
In an interview with BuzzFeed the Mail Online’s editor and publisher Martin Clarke said the growth was driven through US traffic, adding: “We just do news that people want to read.”
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 24 January 2012 at 13:52
Tags: Agencies, Journalism, New Media
A news agency has expressed unease over how Google News operates and criticised the search engine’s reluctance to discuss the “closely guarded” criteria it uses to judge media organisations.
Michael Leidig, the founder and owner of Vienna-based Central European News, believes the formula it uses to rank entries on its news page “doesn’t work”, or at not least not “under the terms that anyone who is a professional in the news business would understand… And nobody at Google seems prepared to comment on why”.
CEN was founded in 1993 and generates around 50 stories news items a day, along with pictures and video content.
Posted by
Andrew Pugh
on 20 January 2012 at 10:57
Tags: Journalism, National Union of Journalists, Newspapers
Yesterday The Times editor James Harding admitted that in 2009 the newspaper hacked the emails of a popular anonymous police blogger called Nightjack to expose his identity.
The admission came after pressure began to mount on the News International title following a series of potentially damaging revelations over the past two weeks. (more…)
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