Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 29 August 2008 at 13:29
Tags: Media Business, National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Times is rising its price by 10p to 80p from Monday making it cost the same as The Independent, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian reports.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 27 August 2008 at 09:51
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, Regional Newspapers
NUJ members at Johnston Press-owned Sheffield Newspapers are seeking support for their Save Our Star petition.
They are concerned about plans for five compulsory redundancies at the Sheffield Star and related titles and the closure of the Barnsley and Rotherham offices. The NUJ is currently looking into taking concerted action at Johnston Press in response to cutbacks across the group.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2008 at 10:31
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Children as young as eight are being paid as little as 12p per day to sell BBC magazines such as Top Gear and Good Homes on roadside pitches in India, the Sunday Times reports. The BBC says it is “working urgently” to tackle the problem.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2008 at 10:25
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business
Emap boss David Gilbertson has come under fire after sending off an email to staff revealing that his holiday home in the Dordogne could sleep “about 50″.
Staff have complained that the email was insensitive, the Mail on Sunday reports, coming at a time when Emap publications have been asked to cut spending by between £100,000 and £200,000 - or find other ways of making money.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 26 August 2008 at 10:19
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism
The documentary was alleged to have been based on video tapes of Diana made by her voice coach. According to the MoS the doc has been shelved on the grounds of taste.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 22 August 2008 at 09:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
German publishing house Gruner + Jahr (majority owned by Bertlesmann) has confirmed it is among those bidding in a second round for Reed Business Information.
The publisher of titles including New Scientist, Variety and Farmers Weekly was put up for sale in February by parent company Reed Elsevier.
According to the Daily Telegraph, 12 bidders have made offers of between £1 billion and £1.25 billion for the business in a first round of bidding. According to Reuters, second-round bids are being sought in the coming weeks with final bidding likely to happen in early October.
Most of the bids are understood to be from private equity firms. Reed has indicated that RBI could be sold as one unit - or broken up.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 22 August 2008 at 09:11
Tags: Broadcast, Radio, Television
According to Broadcast, the figure is an improvement on a similar survey last year - in the midst of various TV faker scandals - when 48 per cent of viewers surveyed said they did not trust the industry.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 21 August 2008 at 17:51
Tags: Journalism, Law, Photography
The NUJ has condemned a deal struck by Fleet Street photographers to pixelate the faces of Met Police firearms officers.
Responding to a story broken on pressgazette.co.uk this morning, NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said: “It is not for the photographer to decide when identities should be protected. That’s a decision for editors, so if the police are serious about addressing this issue, they should be approaching picture desk editors and bodies representing the relevant journalists’ interests.”
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 August 2008 at 14:33
Tags: Journalism, Regional Newspapers
Former editor of the Richmond and Twickenham Times Malcolm Richards has died aged 70.
Richards was editor of the group for 27 years - until his retirement in 2003, he was 70.
Among the tributes paid to him on Richmond and Twickenham Times website today was former journalist with the paper Paul Morgan who said: “What a terribly sad day…..Malcolm was my first editor, from 1990-1993, and as others have mentioned a real inspiration. But more importantly he a compassionate, lovely man who I was honoured to know and call not only my boss, but my friend!”
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 18 August 2008 at 17:36
Tags: National Newspapers
The Telegraph is to shut its Berlin bureau.
Media Guardian reports that two further journalists - Graeme Baker and Ben Martin - have resigned from the foreign desk of the paper.
The return of Harry de Quettville leaves just one full-time Telegraph foreign correspondent in Europe - Henry Samuel in Paris - the Guardian reports.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 14 August 2008 at 11:07
Tags: Law, National Newspapers
The Daily Mail has apologised to Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed for an allegation which was made in a court case.
The paper says that on 20 March the Mail published an agency report of a court case involving an action for the return of jewellery deposited in a Harrods safe deposit box. An allegation was referred to in the case that Al Fayed let his wife select some of the jewellery referred to for her own use.
The Mail has now pointed out that this allegation was not part of the claim and apologised saying there was no suggestion the Al Fayeds acted wrongfully.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 14 August 2008 at 10:44
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Television
The BBC has spent £11 million on a TV channel which will serve 60,000, the Daily Mail reports. The Gaelic Service, aimed at Britain’s Gaelic TV speakers, will launch on 19 September and will include news and sport.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 13 August 2008 at 10:19
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers
Financial Times arts journalist Ian Shuttleworth demonstrated the often contrary nature of members of his profession at a Edinburgh Festival theatre performance where members of the audience were invited to play the part of concentration camp inmates. Shuttleworth refused to enter the gas chamber, the Independent’s Pandora diary reports, despite “repeated screams from the actor to move it” and was left sat on his own leading to allegations that he had sought to “wreck the show”.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 13 August 2008 at 10:04
Tags: Media Business, National Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
After a recent rally for Trinity Mirror’s share price, broker JP Morgan has downgraded it to “underweight”. Citing the various pressures on newspaper advertising, Morgan said that UK newspaper stocks, which have dropped by 40 per cent since the start of the year, could fall further, The Times states in today’s market report.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 11 August 2008 at 09:14
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers
Hitchen and Alan Butterfield said they cornered Edwards in a bathroom at the Beverley Hilton Hotel in Beverley Hills last Tuesday. The pair are now filing a criminal complaint against hotel security following a confrontation, Fox News reports.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 6 August 2008 at 14:29
Tags: Journalism, Regional Newspapers
He was ejected by the Secret Service, even though other white local reporters were allowed to stay, reports Editor and Publisher.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 4 August 2008 at 09:32
Tags: National Newspapers
The Sun today dropped its copy price across the UK to 30p. It was already at 30p in London and the South East and the latest move will affect a further 2.5 million copies of the circulation, which had been retailing for 35p.
In a bonus for newsagents, they will still get the same cut as if they were selling the paper at full price.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 29 July 2008 at 09:15
Tags: Law, National Newspapers
A Hereford coroner has named two SAS men killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2007. The MoD had sought to ban naming the men citing national security, but after lengthy legal consultations the ban has been lifted.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 28 July 2008 at 10:05
Tags: Broadcast
In a letter to Channel Four, The Guardian reports, that they call the programme “disappointing, misleading and even defamatory”. The programme dealt with claims that some Shia beliefs are seen as heretical by other Muslims.
The Shia scholars have complained that they feel they were not given the chance to challenge the points made about their faith.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 28 July 2008 at 09:55
Tags: National Newspapers, New Media
He said: “We will remain separate entities with separate staff.”
When asked if he was like King Canute on this issue, he says: “I wouldn’t use that. King Canute didn’t stop the waves.”
Witherow also reveals that he still gets a weekly call from proprietor Rupert Murdoch on a Saturday evening and that “generally Sundays on the news front are not as strong as they were”.
