Tag Archives: newspapers

Should ABC carrot and advertiser stick control the press?

By March 30 2012, 8:30 am Leave a comment

The MPs suggestions amount to a serious step-change for our press industry, and if they’d been expressed in any other year, they would most likely have been dismissed for being too heavy-handed. Now there are concerns they don’t go far enough

Media owners should not be defined by phone-hacking

By November 15 2011, 9:00 am Leave a comment

No one is going to defend phone hacking, but you don’t have to be James Murdoch to find this latest survey – commissioned by a US broadcaster recently launched in the UK – over-simplified and more than a tad loaded.

News International tries to focus on ‘Moving forward’

By October 26 2011, 9:00 am Leave a comment

Blackhurst: ‘News International is 1% of a multibillion pound business, and it’s that one per cent that brings 90% of the trouble… logic has to tell you they’ll either sell it or close it’

Can The Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph all be best for business?

By September 16 2011, 3:37 pm Leave a comment

Any lift in spirits at News International would have been slightly dampened by the Daily Telegraph having declared itself the “number one choice for business readers”, just hours earlier.

News International’s commercial leaders face redundancy

By August 10 2011, 10:16 am 1 Comment
news international building

Hayes’ commercial team effectively formed the front line for Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper operation during that first long week, as advertisers began to question their association with first News of the World and later News International amid pressure from social media.

Richard Desmond still revels in the controversy

By June 15 2011, 1:41 pm Leave a comment

Why did Richard Desmond pull out of the Press Complaints Commission at the start of 2011? “Because I don’t want to be with a bunch of fucking phone hackers.”

Murdoch’s News Corp set to become the UK’s biggest advertiser

By April 26 2011, 1:10 pm Leave a comment


Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is believed to be gearing-up to clear the way for
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to acquire the 61% of BSkyB it does not
already own, and in a single stroke create possibly the biggest advertising
powerhouse in the UK. Read more »

The battle for America: Mail and Guardian look west

By April 10 2011, 6:05 pm Leave a comment

Guardian & MailOnline to launch in New York

The battle between Britain’s newspapers is about to spill onto the streets of New York, as Associated Newspapers and Guardian News & Media both prepare to launch their first dedicated editorial operations in the city that never sleeps. Read more »

Murdoch, I-Level and… Claudine dominate media in 2010

By December 23 2010, 2:57 pm Leave a comment

Vince Cable pictured in The Independent

In terms of commercial media, 2010 was always going to be dominated by one man and one company: Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation.

From the outset we expected paywalls and bundled content offerings (Alesia) to be the order of the day, but no one could have foreseen just where we find ourselves today. Read more »

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Do advertisers want to be in Times paywall club?

By November 23 2010, 2:37 pm 1 Comment

Hollywood’s take on the relentless rise of Facebook in The Social
Network is set to pass a milestone of its own this week, when UK box office
takings top £10 million.

It’s still got some way to go to push 2009 blockbuster Avatar (£90m), but
double-digit millions is good going for any film in little old Blighty.

Fiction or not, the fact that David Fincher’s simple and rather contrived plot
makes a plausible story says something about the value people place – or at
least imagine others place – on being seen to be in the right club.
The desire to be part of the right crowd is presented as the driving force
behind Facebook’s real-life founder Mark Zuckerberg, and it got me thinking

about News International’s paywall experiment. Read more »

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