Posted by
William Turvill
on 3 February 2012 at 11:47
Tags: Broadcast, Media Business, Radio, Television
UTV has appointed Belfast journalist Darwin Templeton as its new executive editor of news.
Templeton, who has more than 21 years of experience in journalism, will be responsible for the media company’s news output in Northern Ireland. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 3 February 2012 at 11:40
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Bloomberg Markets has announced it will release a spin-off lifestyle magazine distributed with its March 2012 edition.
Set to be distributed to all subscribers, Bloomberg Pursuits is the company’s first luxury lifestyle publication and will be published twice a year. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 2 February 2012 at 12:17
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, awards
Property Week’s Nick Johnstone was awarded a double honour at the Periodicals Training Council’s 2012 New Talent Awards.
As well as picking up the new business deatures journalist of the year award, Johnstone also won the biggest prize on offer, the Grand Prix.
Shortlist.com’s Tom Cullen, was named new editor of the year, and Amy Grier, of Shortlist’s sister title Stylist, won new consumer journalist of the year. (more…)
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
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:18
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business, People
Luxury magazine publisher Aston Greenlake has appointed Scott Manson, formerly editor of Loaded magazine, as its new editor-in-chief.
Manson, who took over at British Airways title High Life after leaving Loaded, joins with a brief to launch new magazine titles in the luxury market. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 27 January 2012 at 10:27
Tags: Magazines, Media Business
Good Housekeeping has launched its own iPad app to enable readers to interact with the magazine on a new platform.
Cakes and Bakes, available to buy on iTunes, was developed entirely by the magazine, and features 35 simple baking recipes.
Good Housekeeping, published by Hearst Magazines UK, has pledged to its readers that more apps will likely follow.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 26 January 2012 at 09:58
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Emap has announced the appointment of a new chief executive of its Insight division.
Stephen Wilson, who previously worked at Thomson Reuters for more than ten years, will join the media group on 9 April.
Part of the wider Emap company, Insight’s products – which include eight websites - provide reports, news, data and analysis across the retail, fashion, automotive, built environment, political and media industries.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 26 January 2012 at 09:47
Tags: Magazines, Media Business
Nuts magazine has revealed that its first interactive edition, released via the smartphone app Blippar this month, was sold to 15,000 users within seven days of being released.
The men’s weekly, which reported a year-on-year circulation dip of 22.5 per cent in August 2011, also claimed users “blipped” (or interacted) with the content 13 times on average.
Released on 3 January, the Interactive issue, which included over 20 pieces of additional editorial content not featured in the print copy, cost £1.80 and was accessed by users more than 200,000 times within a week.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 22 November 2011 at 11:20
Tags: Media Business, New Media, Newspapers, Online
The Guardian is selling ContentNext Media - the blog-based digital media news service which it bought in 2008 for £4m.
ContentNext’s UK site Paidcontent quotes GNM international and business development director Stella Beaumont: “ContentNext has strong brands, great people and an excellent reputation, but GNM’s focus in the US is on building The Guardian. We have received expressions of interest in the company, but the sale process is still in the early stages. We are talking to a select number of potential buyers.” (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 October 2011 at 08:36
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers
The Guardian has denied a report that it is planning to open a shop.
The Telegraph reported today: “Guardian News & Media is eyeing premises in London’s expensive Covent Garden to open a lifestyle store, likely to be branded ‘G3′ – taking its name from the newspaper’s G2 supplement.” (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 October 2011 at 08:13
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, Newspapers
The New York Times today reports on tensions between News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch, who runs the Europe and Asia side of the business. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 October 2011 at 07:38
Tags: Broadcast, Media Business, Television
BSkyB continues to be a recession-proof cash machine for News Corp and its other shareholders.
Results for the three months to 30 September show revenue up 9 per cent on tth4e same period last year to £1,657m and operating profit up 16 per cent to £295m. Full results statement here.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp owns 39 per cent of BSkyB.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 11 October 2011 at 11:33
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, National Newspapers, awards
The nominations for the IBP national journalism awards have been announced - with winners due to be revealed at Chelsea football club on 24 November.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 19 September 2011 at 07:31
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers
Independent media columnist Stephen Glover believes that it is now “practically certain” that The Sun on Sunday will be launched and that it will happen in January.
Gratifyingly for those who work at News International, Glover believes the closure of the UK’s top-selling Sunday newspaper on 12 July was in fact part of a cynical commercial master plan - rather than a knee-jerk act of commercial vandalism as some have said. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 15 September 2011 at 10:14
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers
The Guardian has revealed that it is to become the most expensive mainstream national newspaper from Monday rising from £1 to £1.20 a day. The Times, Telegraph and Independent all cost £1 a day and the Financial Times costs £2.
It is also to rise by 20p to £2.20 on Saturdays from this weekend. A new offer will see subscribers save 38 per cent on the cover price - the paper reports. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 12 September 2011 at 09:01
Tags: Media Business, New Media, Online
AOL and Yahoo are reported to be in merger talks, according to Bloomberg News.
Along with MSN, they are the two biggest web-only players in digital news and content. In the UK, Yahoo is fifth biggest news website (according to Neilsen figures) and AOL is 13th.
AOL has recently beefed up its content business by purchasing the Huffington Post - which in July launched a UK version of the site.
Yahoo News reported that AOL shares shed five per cent following the merger speculation.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 6 September 2011 at 07:48
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers
News International looks is set to make around £150m from the sale of its former offices and printworks at Wapping, east London, according to the FT.
News International ended 22 years of printing in Wapping in 2008 when it moved English production of its four national newspapers to new printworks in Broxbourne.
The last journalists moved out to new offices in neighbouring Thomas More Square this time last year.
NI had initially sought to sell Wapping in 2008 - but scrapped this plan following the financial crash. It had then talked about creating a new “campus” at the Wapping site.
According to the FT’s Matthew Engel, few journalists will mourn the passing of “fortress Wapping”. (more…)
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 10 August 2011 at 10:21
Tags: Agencies, International, Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers
Rupert Murdoch will answer questions from analysts and journalists today during a New York conference call as News Corp releases its fourth quarter results.
It reports that analysts will also push for information on the scandal rather than the company’s financial performance. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 8 August 2011 at 13:38
Tags: Media Business, National Newspapers, Newspapers
Guardian Media Group and private equity group Apax Partners are taking £50m each out Trader Media Group - the publisher of Autotrader which they jointly own.
According to a report on Guardian.co.uk, the “special dividend” will be used by GMG to offset losses in its cash and investment fund, which fell from £260.8m to £197.4m in the year to April. (more…)
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 5 August 2011 at 10:33
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Journalism Technology, Media Business, Mobile, New Media, Online
The number of people using smartphones to browse for news and information has more than doubled over the last year according to new Ofcom research.
Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report states that in April 2011, 23 per cent of mobile internet users claimed to access news and information every day compared to 10 per cent a year previously. (more…)
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