Posts Tagged "Newspaper news"

The Guardian has overhauled its site, trumpeting a flurry of advertising opportunities it hopes will fuel on-going efforts to sell advertisers on reader attention not clicks

The US newspaper, which has accelerated its search for digital revenues since being bought by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos for $250m last year, has been approached about licensing the software it has developed to power its website

So it’s farewell to the Reading Post, which has just published its final issue after its owner, Trinity Mirror, decided to stop publishing its newsprint version. For the full story read The Guardian

One stand-out feature was the plunge in the profitability of the Sun, where operating profits were down to £35.6m from £62.1m in 2013. The Sun’s revenues fell 5.5% to £489m, due, says the report, “to continuing market decline in newspaper circulations, particularly for the popular segment” For the full story read The Guardian

Times Newspapers (TNL) has posted a £1.7m operating profit for the year ending 30 June 2014, its first profitable year since 2001

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday reported a 5% decline in total revenue to £536m. Print advertising revenues fell 5% while circulation revenues dropped 4%

The Sun newspaper has doubled its number of digital subscribers to 225,000, but failed to offset a decline in its overall paid readership, in a test case of whether tabloid newspapers can successfully charge for online content.

Three of the UK’s four large regional newspaper groups are to pool their digital advertising space, giving brands access to more than 50 million online readers as they attempt to fight back against the drain of ad spend to tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook

Blendle, which launched just six months ago, has changed the way newspaper articles in the Netherlands are consumed by readers: it acts as a digital kiosk, selling individual articles at a cost of 20 cents, from a variety of newspapers and magazines. It will be interesting to see how the Blendle model can work abroad […]

Blendle, which launched just six months ago, has changed the way newspaper articles in the Netherlands are consumed by readers: it acts as a digital kiosk, selling individual articles at a cost of 20 cents, from a variety of newspapers and magazines. It will be interesting to see how the Blendle model can work abroad […]

As journalist/programmer Stijn Debrouwere has argued in a persuasive essay about the challenges facing the news business, journalism isn’t being disrupted just by different forms of journalism — it’s being disrupted by things that don’t even look like journalism

The Times is up 1.5% over the year. The poser is how that relates to its online subscriptions. For the full story read The Guardian

Telegraph Media Group is this week implementing a radical restructure of its editorial operation to focus on using digital content as the backbone of each printed edition of the Daily Telegraph

Brad Stone, a technology writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, whose contacts at Amazon have proven fairly reliable in the past, says the newspaper is working on a magazine-style subscription app that will be released soon for the Kindle

Regional newspaper company’s adjusted profits last year fell to £67.3m, and parent company Gannett UK’s titles dropped 5.4%

The launch of MyMail is aligned with the expansion of the publisher’s loyalty programme, Mail Rewards Club, which will now also include offers from Amazon and iTunes

While NRS Padd has published unduplicated reach of print publications and their websites since 2012, this was the first time readership figures on mobile phones and tablets were made available

More than a fifth of UK newspaper readership (21.75 percent) comes from people who exclusively access newspapers on mobile. Not on PC, never in print. Only mobile.

Roy Greenslade reviews the redesign of the FT: I must say that I like the look of the “refreshed” Financial Times

Lionel Barber: “We’ve thought very hard about the future of print and we’ve drawn one or two big conclusions. First of all, anybody who said post-dotcom boom that print is dead is wrong.”