by: Shelia M. Poole | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A partnership headed by several Real Times Media owners, including William F. Pickard and Hiram E. Jackson, bought the 84-year-old newspaper for an undisclosed price. It becomes part of a growing multimedia group that includes The Michigan Chronicle and The Tri-State Defender in Memphis. M. Alexis Scott… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
by: Kristina Ackermann This year, Editor & Publisher once again placed an open call for readers to submit their ideas, projects, and new ways of thinking that are helping them push through the difficult economic climate and put some dollars back in their wallets, and once again we were impressed with the results. Publishers from… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
by: Nu Yang Even though today’s reader wants to find the latest headlines immediately with just a click of a button, Britain’s satirical newspaper Private Eye has stuck by the phrase “hot off the press” for 50 years. The newspaper doesn’t publish online — if you want to read its content, you have to buy… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
By Summer Harlow In “The Search for a New Business Model,” a new report released Monday, March 5, by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellency in Journalism, the study of revenue trends at U.S. newspapers shows that while print ad sales fell an average of 9 percent during the last year, digital ad revenue… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
More than a year and a half after News Corp.‘s flagship UK “quality” papers introduced new paid digital outlets, their effect is becoming clear – they are softening ongoing print circulation declines, but not overturning them. Latest figures issued by News International show The Times and Sunday Times websites, apps and digital editions gathered a… [Read more…]
January 27, 2012
« Le Huffington Post donne accès au meilleur du Web, grâce à des liens vers d’autres médias. » Vous lancez le Huffington Post en France sur un marché de l’information en ligne déjà bien encombré : comment allez-vous vous différencier ? Le Huffington Post, c’est une combinaison de contenus originaux , d’agrégation, de blogs et… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
Premium content is making a comeback. The signs are appearing with more frequency, across multiple digital channels: Tablets: Content is experiencing a bit of a renaissance on the iPad and other tablets. Publishers including Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, and Bonnier have announced significant increases in digital subscriptions. Earlier this week, the UK’s Future Publishing told… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
It’s been a long-running discussion among UK online journalism enthusiasts over why blogging didn’t develop the same way it has in the US. For all the Guido Fawkes and Mumsnets we have, there isn’t much to match Gawker, Techcrunch, Mashable, Blogher, GigaOm and the rest in terms of reach and business success. But that didn’t… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Major book publishers should abandon the use of technology that limits how their copyrighted digital material is used by readers after sale, according to Matteo Berlucchi, CEO of London-based social e-retailer Anobii. In a speech this afternoon at the Digital Book World Conference in New York,… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
By Charlotte Abbott, DBW contributor, @charabbott A novel approach for publishers interested in building their brands: Give away content for free. Book publishers, imprints and brands should market themselves by using new media and social media channels to talk to their audiences about relevant areas of interest, according to a panel today at the Digital… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’s most popular newspaper. News Of The World relaunched on the web and iPad for £1.99 a month in September 2010, including with SMS payment – ten months before it was… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
Stuck in one of the worst recessions of all time this year’s salary survey, which has been produced by media recruitment specialist Sylex, paints a slighter brighter picture for the industry. edia Salary Survey: what should you be paid? After a 2010 that finally saw pay and recruitment freezes lifted last year, 2011 was witness… [Read more…]
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