New media types among Evening Standard’s 1000 most influential Londoners
Peter Mandelson had to be a last minute addition to the list because the magazine had already gone to press: being offline seems to be a recurring theme for the London Evening Standard’s 1000 most...
View ArticleRound-up of the recent UK newspaper job cuts
It’s hardly like newspaper jobs were all that secure anyway, but this month’s financial situation (something about a recession) hasn’t helped things either over the last couple of weeks. This week news...
View ArticleA timely week for the Huffington Post to launch mobile
In all the election excitement, this nearly got missed but the Huffington Post went mobile this week. Media Bistro originally reported: “HuffPost Mobile’s election coverage includes top news stories,...
View ArticleRebekah Wade’s first public speech in full
If the Wordle and other coverage isn’t enough, here’s the Hugh Cudlipp speech by the editor of the Sun, Rebekah Wade, in full [note: may have differed very slightly in actual delivery]: The challenging...
View ArticleMediaGuardian: DMGT to axe 1,000 from Northcliffe Media
Daily Mail & General Trust has announced possible job cuts of 1,000 at its regional publishing division Northcliffe Media. The group posted a 24 per cent fall in advertising revenue across its...
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AdweekMedia’s US magazine ‘hot list’: Economist and Elle take top spots
AdweekMedia has published its annual ‘hot list’ for US magazine titles: “Inclusion in AdweekMedia’s annual ‘Hot List’ is based on several factors, including: ad page and revenue gains; performance...
View ArticleTodd Gitlin’s keynote JiC speech transcript: The four wolves who crept up to...
Following our round-up of the Westminster students coverage of last week’s Journalism in Crisis conference, we’ll link to one final item: Professor Todd Gitlin’s keynote speech, given via Skype, on the...
View ArticleMashable: Local accounting for 74 per cent of advertising revenue on...
According to a new report from Borrell Associates, local advertisers and businesses will make up 74 per cent of Facebook’s ad revenue this year – around $229 million. Mashable points out that Facebook...
View ArticleThe Observer: ‘Painful decisions’ about what it can print as advertising...
Readers of the Observer might have noticed that the paper no longer prints a full television guide each week. Many have written to the paper to complain. One said that a full guide would be ‘infinitely...
View ArticleNick Denton: Gawker revenues up 45 per cent in first half of 2009
The plunge has already been pretty terrifying for a range of companies from Yahoo and IAC to the newspapers,” writes Gawker founder Nick Denton, referring to his previous prediction that media...
View ArticleFuture: Digital ads going from strength-to-strength
Specialist magazine publisher Future has reported a resilient and ‘healthy balance sheet’ in the face of recession with a 15 per cent increase in online advertising revenue in the nine months to June...
View ArticleCouncil news round-up: ad revenue shortage for East End Life and plans for...
There’s been much debate amongst regional and local newspaper representatives in the UK about the impact of local authority ‘newspapers’ or freesheets on their advertising revenue, role in the...
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How much is an article worth? ‘Dead tree’ thinking could hinder digital...
Could you spare 10p for a news report? Maybe 5p for the sports results? Many in the news industry would like us to pay to see news articles that we’ve previously enjoyed for free, whether it’s via...
View ArticleCanadian newspaper publisher reports print growth, digital shrinkage
The New York Times yesterday reported that growth in digital advertising had offset a decline in print ad revenue. Which seems to make sense in 2010. But interestingly Canwest, publisher of the largest...
View ArticleOnline advertising spend tops £4bn after 12.8% rise
Spending on online advertising has topped £4 billion for the first time in the UK, as advertisers spend £1 in every £4 online, according to new research. The findings, published today by the Internet...
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