Print in 2013: Newspapers cut costs and seek tablets of salvation
Alexander Lebedev needs an investor, there's a new boss at Pearson, and the regional press faces further advertising woe.
View ArticleTop 10 Facebook news stories of 2012
A list of the most shared, commented and 'liked' news stories of 2012 published by UK news outlets BBC News, Mail Online, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, the Sun, the Mirror.
View ArticleIsn’t it social influence we should consider when judging people who are...
At both school and university we were taught not to trust everything found on Wikipedia. Up until recently, I assumed this lack of trust represented a general consensus amongst the population. It was...
View ArticleMan punched by Lebedev arrested in Cambodia on hostage charge
Sergei Polonsky, the Russian businessman who was punched on TV by The Independent's owner, Alexander Lebedev, has been arrested in Cambodia.
View ArticleTwo very different magazines launch iPad editions: the old media company...
Two print magazine that come from very different sources have taken different approaches to launching their first iPad editions.
View ArticleSue Douglas in talks to pay up to £10m for majority stake in Sunday People
Former Sunday Express editor eyes News of the People title as publisher Trinity Mirror confirms discussions on joint venture.
View ArticleNEWSPAPER ABCs: FT, Guardian and Daily Telegraph circulations stay steady
The Independent's circulation has fallen by over a third in the past 12 months, while the Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Telegraph managed slight month-on-month circulation increases in December.
View Article“Adapt or die” – The Mail, Independent, Newsworks and Expedia on tablet take-up
Tablets are not killing newspapers, they’re offering a lifeline to the revitalisation and rebirth of ‘news brands’ beyond the dreaded paywall, say the experts. Assembled at Newsworks’ Tablet Summit,...
View ArticleLebedevs win London local TV licence
Independent owners' Evening Standard-backed service seen as most lucrative licence to be awarded since Channel 5 in 1997.
View ArticleEuropean version of China Daily overtakes The Independent
Each edition of the European version of the China Daily newspaper has a bigger circulation than The Independent, new figures from auditor ABC have revealed.
View ArticleIndependent's plan to restructure comment desks puts 13 jobs at risk
National Union of Journalists says it is 'deeply concerned' at plan to merge comment and Independent Voices desks.
View ArticleAlexander Lebedev: Evening Standard TV will boost profit push
As he prepares to stand trial for alleged hooliganism in Russia, the Russian mogul reveals the planning behind his launch.
View ArticleIndependent on Sunday editor exits as Lebedev papers go seven-day
Up to 20 job cuts as papers join multimedia operation that will include the Evening Standard and London Live TV station.
View ArticleJohn Mullins out as Independent goes seven-day
The Independent and The Independent on Sunday are to merge into a single seven-day news operation, under "radical" changes which will also see the newspapers forge even closer ties with the Evening...
View ArticleAmazon's German labor fiasco
The story of Amazon's treatment of workers took a sensational turn last week when German public television revealed that temporary Amazon workers in Germany--most of them foreign, apparently--were...
View ArticleIrish publishing group ousts Australian chief executive
Brett Chenoweth's resignation comes after the board said it had 'lost confidence' in his leadership ability.
View ArticleWills to chair London Press Club
Doug Wills, one of the nicest managing editors ever to grace a newspaper, has been appointed as chairman of the London Press Club. He succeeds Steve Oram, who spent six years in the post.
View ArticleThe Independent's seven-day move puts 25 jobs at risk
Posts to go as paper prepares for greater integration with Evening Standard and launch of local TV channel.
View ArticleEditor celebrates 'minor miracle' as i continues to grow
In a welcome growth story for old Fleet Street, The Independent's 20p offshoot i recorded a 32% lift in readership over the past year, an achievement dubbed a "minor miracle" by executive editor,...
View ArticleTwo of Australia’s most noted newspapers go tabloid: Will the content follow...
Editor’s note: Today marks a turning point in Australian newspapers: The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne debuted in tabloid form after more than a century as broadsheets. The move of...
View ArticleTelegraph group cuts 80 print jobs as daily and Sunday titles merge
The Telegraph group is to shed 80 of its 550 editorial staff as part of what the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, calls a root and branch restructure of the business. It will mean the complete...
View ArticlePaul Dacre joins call for veto on press watchdog members with 'own agenda'
Dail Mail editor, Telegraph and News International bosses voice concern over Hacked Off's Brian Cathcart or others joining regulator board.
View ArticleLeveson's liberal friends bring shame upon the left | Nick Cohen
MPs who vote to regulate the press tomorrow are siding against the principles they're meant to uphold.
View ArticleTwitter and Telegraph hacks, no longer tweethearts? | Media Monkey
Over to Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph, where hard-pressed hacks have apparently been commandeered onto Twitter and told to update their followers regularly with pithy missives. Forget the deadlines,...
View ArticlePress regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies
Daily Telegraph's deputy editor, Benedict Brogan, says separate regulator should form in response to cross-party deal.
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