Posted by Erina Lin on April 26, 2007 at 3:03 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
The size of The Sydney Morning Herald will be reduced from its current broadsheet size next year as part of a significant restructure by publisher Fairfax Media. The changes will include another round of redundancies at the Herald and The Sun-Herald, the third in less than three years.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 24, 2007 at 5:10 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
UAE evening newspaper Emirates Evening Post has ceased publication due to licensing issues, Arabian Business has reported. A source was quoted as saying staff were given no warning that the paper was closing down. The tabloid was published by the Sharjah-based Press Centre and Art Productions. http://www.ameinfo.com/117694.html; April 24, 2007
Posted by Erina Lin on April 24, 2007 at 4:47 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company (MDC) is gearing up to launch a daily English-language newspaper that will be part of an ambitious new media empire, ArabianBusiness.com has revealed. The government-owned investment company is currently head-hunting for senior editorial staff to work on a broadsheet-style general news title. A tentative launch date of Nov. 2007 has been set. MDC is also thought to have plans for a dedicated business newspaper, although it would probably launch this after the general news title. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11524; April 24, 2007
Posted by Erina Lin on April 23, 2007 at 10:38 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
"The first quarter is a seasonally weak quarter for Metro International and is usually loss making. However, the first quarter 2007 results also reflect the disappointing performance in some of our key markets, such as Sweden, Spain, France and the United States,” Pelle Törnberg, President and CEO of Metro International, has announced.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 23, 2007 at 5:35 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Agence France-Presse and Italian news agency ANSA announced a cooperation deal for an economic and social news Internet portal for Mediterranean basin countries. AFP will join 18 other national agencies that have been supplying news to the ANSAmed portal since 2004.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 23, 2007 at 3:06 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
UK digital publishers experienced an average 60 percent increase in turnover in 2006, and are predicting an average of 72 percent growth for 2007 – double what they were forecasting this time last year.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 23, 2007 at 3:04 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
The Globe and Mail has introduced a host of significant changes and enhancements to its print and digital products.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 20, 2007 at 3:00 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
The newspaper group Independent News and Media is creating 60 jobs at a new printing press in Newry. The £20m plant was opened by chief executive Sir Anthony O'Reilly and former MP for the area Seamus Mallon. The company prints more than 30 newspapers, including the News of the World and the Daily Express.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 19, 2007 at 10:51 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Dato – the first new door-to-door distributed freesheet to hit the streets at the start of the Danish freesheet war last August – has become the second free title to be withdrawn from the market. Berlingske Officin, Mecom's Danish division, has decided to merge Dato with Urban, the newspaper group's pre-freesheet-war freebie, and Dato will cease to exist as an independent newspaper as of April 19. http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2007/04/montgomerys_dat.html; April 19, 2007
by Tatiana Repkova
Thousands of children across South Africa receive a free newspaper via email in a language they easily understand, an education conference heard on April 18. Editor Duncan Guy told the Meraka Innovate Conference for Educators in Pretoria the innovation started two years when he made a newspaper for his son.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 13, 2007 at 3:09 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
According to an NSK annual poll on the current state of the electronic media, 86 NSK member companies - up one from the previous survey - are operating a combined total of 168 Website services.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 13, 2007 at 2:50 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
As China's elderly population continues to surge, Chinese publications catering to seniors are seeing their circulation figures grow and advertising revenue soar. Statistics released by the Council of Senior Publications show that China currently has 28 newspapers aimed squarely at older readers, with aggregate annual circulation of 4 million copies and more than 60 million yuan of advertising revenue.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 13, 2007 at 2:49 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Corporate loyalty programs have been around for more than 20 years – one of the first big ones being American Airlines Advantage Program – but newspapers have been slow to catch on.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 11, 2007 at 10:46 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Metro International S.A. announced that it has entered into a joint venture and franchise agreement with Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação, one of the leading television broadcasters in Brazil. A new edition of Metro will be launched in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 7, 2007.
by Tatiana Repkova
U.S. financial publisher Dow Jones is poised to buy the London-based investment banking newspaper Financial News for about £27 million.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 10, 2007 at 2:47 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
As part of a large process of modernizing its local daily network Deník in the Czech Republic, German-owned publishing house Vltava-Labe-Press (VLP) kicked off a massive marketing campaign April 2 aimed at consolidating the daily’s position in the country’s towns.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 9, 2007 at 10:21 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Following several successful experiments in editorial and newsroom management, JoongAng Ilbo initiated South Korea's first major Sunday newspaper March 18, 2007. JoongAng Ilbo pioneered the use of horizontal copy layout, topical sections and specialist reporters with investigative reporting teams in Korea. Since April 15, 1995, JoongAng Ilbo has been laid out horizontally. At that time it also became a morning newspaper. http://www.nikkei.co.jp/events/asiamedia/speakers_en.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joongang_Daily; April 2007
Posted by Erina Lin on April 9, 2007 at 9:23 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
Ukraine free daily 15 minut launched an edition for Donetsk with an initial circulation of 15,000 on April 3. Donetsk is the second city in Ukraine with a population of about 1 million.
by Tatiana Repkova
Thailand's decision to ban the video-sharing site YouTube highlights how aggressively the kingdom has tried to rein in the media since the military coup last year, analysts said.
Posted by Erina Lin on April 6, 2007 at 4:51 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
The Arran Voice of Scotland hopes to attract the island's 5,000 residents away from the Arran Banner, which was set up in 1975 and bought by the Oban Times in 2003. The Banner is featured in record books for once having the most sales per head of population anywhere in the world. The new paper was the brainchild of disgruntled Banner readers who said the paper had lost its local identity. The Arran Voice costs 65p and promises "a fresh new look and hi-tech advertising." The 50p Arran Banner has reacted to the challenge by undergoing a makeover and launching an online presence, which will be unveiled at the same time as The Voice hits newsstands. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6531741.stm; April 6, 2007
Posted by Erina Lin on April 5, 2007 at 2:40 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
The Newspaper Audience Database (NAdbase) report, issued by the Newspaper Association of America shows that during the second half of 2006 unique visitors to newspaper Websites averaged 57.3 million visitors a month or one in three of all Internet users, a 15 percent increase over the same period a year ago (49.8 million) (Nielsen//NetRatings).
Posted by Erina Lin on April 4, 2007 at 9:07 PM
by Tatiana Repkova
au fait is the first free daily to be launched in Morocco, which already has several free weeklies.
