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Sport magazine plans international expansion

April 30, 2012

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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…]

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus to air first synchronised ad on Zeebox

April 29, 2012

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Twentieth Century Fox has signed a deal with Sky Media to run a social media ad on Zeebox for Ridley Scott‘s ‘Prometheus‘ at the same time as the film’s trailer airs on Channel 4. Prometheus: ad to air on Zeeboox as film’s trailer is shown on Channel 4 When the trailer airs on Channel 4,… [Read more…]

Murdoch: News Corporation shareholders ‘want me to get rid of newspapers’

April 29, 2012

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 Rupert Murdoch has taken the stand at Leveson Inquiry for the second day, after admitting yesterday (25 April) that News Corporation’s shareholders would like him to “get rid of” all the company’s newspapers. Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation chairman appears at the Leveson Inquiry During his four hours of evidence to the inquiry yesterday, Murdoch, chairman… [Read more…]

News Executives and the Future

March 5, 2012

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America’s news executives are hesitant about many of the alternative funding ideas being discussed for journalism today and are overwhelmingly skeptical about the prospect of government financing, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the Radio… [Read more…]

News International reports 119,255 digital subs for The Times

February 14, 2012

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News International has provided an update on its two UK newspaper websites behind paywalls, to report 119,255 digital subscribers for The Times and 113,818 for the Sunday Times. News International reports 119,255 digital subs for The Times In further revelations, the publisher reported an average of 59,882 copies of The Times were downloaded daily on… [Read more…]

News International signs seven-figure deal with Global Radio

February 6, 2012

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News International, publisher of The Sun and The Times, has signed a seven-figure partnership deal with Global Radio, which will include at least six months of activity across a variety of stations such as Capital FM and Classic FM. Breakfast show duo: Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon of 95.8 Capital FM London The deal has… [Read more…]

Web Video Fills Hole Left by TV in China

January 19, 2012

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Beijing—government restrictions are driving young Chinese to turn off their TVS and turn on their computers. Advertisers and Western studios are right there with them. China’s streaming- video sites once were derided by the global entertainment industry as homes of stolen movies and television shows. But many sites have cracked down on piracy and are… [Read more…]

A web-first politics site for NBC News: Vivian Schiller on the launch of NBCPolitics.com

December 14, 2011

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By Justin Ellis Email NBC News keeps its political reporting in lots of different places. There’s Chuck Todd on Twitter, in the evening with Brian Williams and the Nightly News Crew, online at MSNBC’s First Read, or your Sunday morning coffee date with David Gregory on Meet the Press. That diffusion is part of why… [Read more…]

Alpha female of The New York Times

December 11, 2011

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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…]

New York Times Expands Into Freemium Apps With ‘Election 2012’

December 10, 2011

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As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone news apps. The newspaper’s new “Election 2012” political news iPhone app is free to download, but most of its content is only available to subscribers. The app provides election… [Read more…]

UK National newspaper ABC figures for November 2011

December 9, 2011

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Avg. daily circ Avg. daily circ Avg. daily circ  Countries outside Daily Titles Nov-11 Oct-11 Nov-10 UK & Ireland Multiple copies Daily Mirror 1,103,405 1,118,120 1,177,629 36,246 - Daily Star 643,490 658,690 756,686 9,345 - The Sun 2,624,167 2,715,473 2,898,113 24,981 - Daily Express 603,318 614,534 639,690 27,180 - Daily Mail 2,001,643 1,998,363 2,100,885 100,827… [Read more…]

EWSPAPER ABCs: The Daily Telegraph circulation falls below 600,000

December 9, 2011

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The Daily Telegraph’s circulation has fallen below the 600,000 mark for the first time since modern records began, according to the latest round of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures. Daily Telegraph: circulation dropped below 600,00 in November November’s figures show that The Daily Telegraph slipped back 1.53% on the previous month to report an… [Read more…]