By Joe Pompeo and Tom McGeveran Over the past few years, Reuters has been adding an impressive array of magazine stars and other marquee reporters to its massive stable of journalists, in the hopes of becoming a more public-facing news and information brand. Now the 160-year-old news agency is putting out a magazine of its… [Read more…]
April 30, 2012
UTV is kicking off plans to market Sport magazine globally, following the lead of sister radio station TalkSport. Sport magazine: set for international distribution The publisher has appointed Tim Hudson as international director to market Sport overseas. TalkSport won international broadcast rights for commentary of Premier League football matches earlier this month. Now Hudson will… [Read more…]
January 26, 2012
UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand. 104 days after Future debuted the titles with Newsstand’s September 12 launch, tablet editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith revealed stats at the UK Association of Online Publishers’ tablet publishing forum in London on… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription. The promotion will run through… [Read more…]
January 5, 2012
This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. SEE ALSO: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Will Launch Metered Paywall One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
In a New Year letter to employees, Hearst president David Carey reiterated that the company’s target this year is to reach over 1 million paid digital subscribers per month. The full letter: SEE ALSO: Hearst’s Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012 January 3, 2012 Dear Colleagues, Welcome to 2012! I… [Read more…]
December 11, 2011
Jill Abramson is too busy to worry about her own appetite. She’s more concerned about other people’s appetites – specifically, her readers’ hunger for news. ANTHONY JENKINS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL It’s a concern that takes up all of her time now, just a couple of months into her new job as executive editor of The… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
For most of the past hundred years, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the occasional copyright case with significant cases popping up once every 10 or 20 years. That started to change in 2001 with a big case reaching Canada’s top court every year or two. While that seemed like a busy schedule, it is… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running,… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
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December 4, 2011
This week, Media Bitch goes to glamorous Luton, threatens Christian O’Connell with a smacked bottom, gets mobile with Mark “Gravy” Jarvis, and learns that one her media chums has been caught by the fuzz. Richard Desmond: targeting the white van man? White van man Bitch loves the glamour of her job and no more so… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
Three of the world’s most influential newspapers have finally come to terms with the notion that charging readers online is the only way to survive. There is far less agreement on how to go about that, the publishers of The New York Times, The Times of London and the Financial Times made clear at this… [Read more…]
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