Executive Views

Wibbitz Auto-Magically Turns News Stories In To Videos: CEO

Newspaper newsrooms have been saying for years that their future is in video. But vid...

By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Mail Online Aims To Go Large With Rich, Native Video Ads
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Mail Online’s New US CEO Steinberg: “We are Going to Grow Massively”
By Robert Andrews  
Executive Views
Nigerian News Consumers Jump Straight To Mobile First
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Company strategy
Tail wags dog – The Times subsidizes Nexus 7 to snag subscribers
By Robert Andrews  
FBI To Investigate News Corp. In Phone Hacking Allegations
Company strategy
News Corp.’s divorce of convenience: publishing loses Hollywood’s embrace
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Company strategy
News Corp.’s The Daily is dead, long live The Daily?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation
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Insights
Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Three-way tie-up promises to re-invent local news
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Does a supermarket magazine really have more readers than The Sun?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Daily Mail‘s new Kindle app combines replica and interactive
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

What The Guardian really thinks about newsprint

Depending on whom you choose to believe this month, The Guardian will either cease it...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
No more daily deals, new digital newspaper focus for Trinity Mirror
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Newspapers go to Rio for growth and discovery
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Guardian CEO says digital opportunity is “fantastic” but revenues are lagging
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Investors like New York Times‘ ‘paywall’ progress
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Monetizing BitTorrent helps Australian newspaper keep down video costs
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Newsprint joins the internet of things
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Industry moves
The Guardian has a new chief digital officer
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Web adds a fifth to UK newspaper readership, print still dominates
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Finnish publisher Sanoma cutting and charging to adapt for future
By Robert Andrews  
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Industry moves
Out of frying pan, HMV’s Fox picked to stoke Trinity Mirror’s fire
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Online outsourcing helps Johnston’s digital news show creep forward
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Guardian sees 2.1% of iPad readers pay
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Market indicators

Two years after the tipping point, papers’ web readership is booming

As newspapers’ print circulation continues to decline, publishers now get the majorit...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The end of convergence? Perhaps for News Corp
By Robert Andrews  
Earnings analysis
Guardian’s ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Down-sizing Down Under, Fairfax Media cuts and charges to survive
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
FT’s Grimshaw: Digital subs will soon beat print circulation
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Wires become books, paid becomes free for Queen’s Jubilee
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Market indicators
Murdoch’s Times could soon be read mostly digitally
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Web journey complete, FT switching off iOS app
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
Digital reading beginning to take Chinese mindshare
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
How tech’s giants want to re-invent journalism
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Slide Deck: Can Johnston Press re-invent local news for digital?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
GoPress digital kiosk bundles Belgian newspapers, magazines
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Mail Online is about to turn its first profit
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

For struggling local publishers, weekly is the new daily, iPad the new fishwrap

Some UK newspaper publishers are now hastening the reform of their local titles chall...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Amazon will review Kindle newspaper submission after all
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Dutch, Belgian publishers mull a ‘Spotify for newspapers’
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Amazon Frustrates With ‘Suspension’ Of Kindle Newspaper Additions
By Robert Andrews  
Conference reports
Video: Slovakia’s Paid Content System Plans To Launch In Bigger Markets
By Robert Andrews  
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Conference reports
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Revenge Of The Replicas – 70 UK Papers Hit iOS In One Go
By Robert Andrews  
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Earnings analysis
Axel Springer Fears Public Media Apps Will Blunt Digital Tipping Point
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: FT CEO Denies Sale And Braves Strike Ahead Of Social Launch
By Robert Andrews  
House prices
Earnings analysis
Property Ads About To Quit Newspapers For Web, Rightmove Reckons
By Robert Andrews  
Revealed: Rate Cards Show UK News Sites’ Bulls And Beggars
Market indicators
Revealed: Rate Cards Show UK News Sites’ Bulls And Beggars
By Robert Andrews  
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Market indicators
News Corp Sees Digital Payments Soften But Not Reverse UK Sales Decline
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling

In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper web...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: News Int. Hacking Scandal Has Spurred Innovation
By Robert Andrews  
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Interviews
Interview: ‘No Decision’ On Sun Paywall In Absence Of NOTW
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
UK’s Biggest Regional Newspaper Ending Web Fees
By Robert Andrews  
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
Market indicators
Mobile News Consumption Is Highest In UK
By Robert Andrews  
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Analyst Views
Analyst: Downturn And Intransigence Pushing French Papers To Web, Oblivion
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Axel Springer Becomes Industry’s Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad’s Flipboard Flips To Phone
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
HeraldScotland.com Will Charge Regular Readers £2.99 A Month
By Robert Andrews  
M&A analysis

Mecom Sells Norwegian News Unit But Retains Digital Interest

Pan-European newspaper publisher Mecom is selling its Norwegian business Edda Media t...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Chart: Why Classifieds Mean More Than Mail Online To DMGT
By Robert Andrews  
Funding analysis
Express Invests £100 Million In 25-Year Future For News Print
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Updated: Newsstand’s Few Early Adopters Have Stolen A March On Laggards
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Publishers Mull iOS 5’s Promise And Problems
By Robert Andrews  
Apple’s Newsstand Debuts, Grouping iOS Publications In One Folder
Company strategy
Apple’s Newsstand Debuts, Grouping iOS Publications In One Folder
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
‘Be Your Own Boss’: Northcliffe Turns LocalPeople Sites In To ‘Franchises’
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
La Tribune Starts Charging For More Online Content
By Robert Andrews  
Chart: Which UK News Sites Post The Most Stories?
Market indicators
Chart: Which UK News Sites Post The Most Stories?
By Robert Andrews  
UK Newspapers Launch Their Own Pay-For Web Aggregator
Company strategy
UK Newspapers Launch Their Own Pay-For Web Aggregator
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why Apple’s Subscription Terms Are A Lose-Lose-Lose
By Robert Andrews  
Interviews

Interview: Guardian Aims To Double Digital Revenue In Five Years, CEO Says

The worsening state of the printed news and advertising market has prompted The Guard...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
The Guardian Quickens Its Journey To A Life With Less Print
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp’s Project Alesia Team Releasing An iPad Product After All
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Apple Lets Subscription Providers Hike iOS Prices To Absorb Its 30 Percent
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Telegraph Goes With Apple Subs For Newspaper-Like iPad Edition
By Robert Andrews  
How Much Does Digital Mean To UK Newspapers?
Market indicators
How Much Does Digital Mean To UK Newspapers?
By Robert Andrews  
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Market indicators
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
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Company strategy
Another Newspaper Jumps On The Groupon Bandwagon
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Company strategy
Many Tablet Publications Are ‘Hopeless’, UBM’s Levin Says
By Robert Andrews  
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Insights
Publishers Lobby And Re-Group On Digital Policy
By Robert Andrews  
Updated: Which Papers In The UK Are Winning The Digital Revenue Race?
Market indicators
Updated: Which Papers In The UK Are Winning The Digital Revenue Race?
By Robert Andrews  
Papers Finally Start Aping Groupon
Company strategy
Papers Finally Start Aping Groupon
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

UK’s Biggest Regional Paper Flipping The ‘Paid’ Web Switch

The UK’s best-selling regional daily newspaper will start requiring a bundled print-a...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
UK Local Papers See Web Audience Growing
By Robert Andrews  
Market analysis
How UK Newspaper Subscriptions Stack Up
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Apple Subs: Some Publishers Relieved They Dodged A Bullet
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Concerned Publishers Group Says ‘Apple Is Not The Only Offer On The Table’
By Robert Andrews  
Newspaper Advertising: Give It Away, Give It Away Now?
Market analysis
Newspaper Advertising: Give It Away, Give It Away Now?
By Robert Andrews  
Guess What? Your Tweets Aren’t Private Unless They’re Private
Company strategy
Guess What? Your Tweets Aren’t Private Unless They’re Private
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Why The Daily’s Detractors Are Missing The Point
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Interviews
Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business
By Robert Andrews  
Westminster Rales Against Hunt’s Local TV Vision
Insights
Westminster Rales Against Hunt’s Local TV Vision
By Robert Andrews  
Running The Numbers: Mobile Newspaper Subscriptions
Company strategy
Running The Numbers: Mobile Newspaper Subscriptions
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
The Times Goes To The Googleplex To Meet Its Nemesis
By Robert Andrews  
Video: News Corp’s Dominic Young Says Paywalls Are Good For Humans
Company strategy
Video: News Corp’s Dominic Young Says Paywalls Are Good For Humans
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Video: Meltwater’s CEO Lyssegen ‘Promotes’ Newspapers’ Content

The UK’s High Court last month ruled against news monitor Meltwater in a case brought...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Corp’s Christmas Day Strategy: Catch iPad Gift Recipients
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
News Of The World Pricier On iPad Than On Paper
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
PRs Appeal UK High Court’s Pay-For-Links Ruling
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
France’s Newpapers Team Up On Paid-Kiosk Initiative
By Robert Andrews  
Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity
Essays
Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity
By Robert Andrews  
Slide Deck: Hard Stats On Monetising Online News
Market indicators
Slide Deck: Hard Stats On Monetising Online News
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