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Bauer leads decline as British magazines record historic falls

By August 31 2011, 10:45 am 2 Comments

Bauer’s chief exec Paul Keenan says: “Historically, magazines used to prove themselves to be ‘an affordable luxury’ in times of a downturn and have grown. I think this downturn is different, and the variable that has changed this time around is the amount of competition, both from other magazines and other media.”

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.

Publishers take a bite out of Apple in 2011

By May 6 2011, 9:28 am Leave a comment

What a difference a year makes; at last year’s PPA magazine conference it was all about Apple and the thrilling potential of its new dynamic piece of tech, the iPad. Read more »

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Storm clouds gather as Sky retreats from print

By February 28 2011, 10:52 am 5 Comments

BSkyB’s decision to scale back its market-defining customer publishing business could be an ominous bellwether for the magazine industry; is sentiment being put aside for cold economics? Read more »

Why News Corp really pulled the plug on Project Alesia

By October 21 2010, 8:13 am 1 Comment

News Corporation has been
forced to abandon plans for its eagerly anticipated digital news platform, part
of the company’s so called ‘Project Alesia’ initiative, citing runaway costs.

As we revealed this morning, bean-counters at Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate
have decided to pull the plug on the year-long activity when it was
expected to be finalised.

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Publishing failures unite at AOP 2010

By October 15 2010, 2:35 pm 1 Comment

Attending the 9th annual AOP Digital Publishing Summit in Westminster
today proved to be something of a milestone for the UK’s media industry.

Unlike many in the room, I remember the association’s first outing back in 2002. The dotcom bubble had just bust and its messy entrails were still being discovered. The room of mostly traditional newspaper and magazine publishers were still understandably nervous about the implications of the web on their businesses.

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Silly Season disrupted by media onslaught

By August 19 2010, 11:15 am Leave a comment

I’ve just returned from somewhere suitably laid back, hot and isolated, where I found myself, for the first time in a long time, without phone or internet connection.

My media consumption has been restricted to the rather heady cocktail of international editions of the Daily Mail and CNBC; I may be fearful about the shrinking number of white mothers in the UK (why is no-one doing anything about this!), and have a growing hatred towards the “wasteful” BBC, but have a good grasp of the current financial drivers, and find myself wondering, is NASDAQ’s bearish trend pattern set to return?

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Are we all in the brown stuff if Times paywall fails?

By May 28 2010, 2:30 pm 2 Comments

For a media hack like me, it’s had more twists and turns and dragged out longer than the final series of Lost; and the budget-busting climax is still yet to come.

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Publishers become animated as the iPad arrives in London

By May 10 2010, 1:54 pm Leave a comment

Apple's iPad in action
Apple’s iPad might not officially launch in the UK until 28 May, but as anyone not living under a rock in the last month will be able to tell you; the iPad is here and already walks among us.

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