Zone Publishing has promoted Justyn Barnes to editor of Manchester United Magazine, and she moves up from the position of deputy editor to replace Faith Mowbray, who has been appointed managing editor for all of Zone’s football publications.Zone recently launched La Roma, the new AS Roma magazine, and will also be handling the club’s commercial… Continue reading Appointments In The Publishing Zone
Scottish Media Group (SMG) has expanded its magazine interests through the £3.1 million takeover of trade journal publisher, TAS Publishing.Glasgow-based SMG owns Scottish Television and Grampian Television as well as newspapers such as The Herald and The Evening Times.TAS publishes Components in Electronics, aimed at design engineers and buyers in the electronics industry and with… Continue reading Scottish Media Expands With Magazine Buy
Shares on the London stock market made a strong recovery today after going into freefall, fuelled by fears of a global meltdown sparked by the Russian crisis.After falling 259 points at its worst, the FTSE-100 index clawed back to show a 76.7 points fall at 5291.9 by early afternoon.Earlier, screens had turned red in the… Continue reading Market Report
In The Independent‘s ranks, Louise Moss has been promoted to advertisement controller of the weekend newspapers.Simon Cooke, previously with The Guardian, has been made display ad controller for the weekday products, and The Mail On Sunday‘s client sales executive has been poached and made client sales manager on both the Sunday and weekday papers.Steve Miron,… Continue reading Appointments At The Independent
Front Cover – FrontiersFollowing a pilot issue in March this year (see First Issue Review – Frontiers), Future Publishing has given the go-ahead to its science and technology magazine, Frontiers.The monthly will launch fully on 4 September with a £1 first issue along with a promotional campaign, something the pilot lacked. The second issue is… Continue reading Future Presses On With Frontiers
Irish media magnate Tony O’Reilly’s takeover of The Independent and the Independent on Sunday in April has already resulted in reduced losses at the newspapers, according to Independent Newspapers.The company said that despite its “significant” investment in costly redesigns of the two titles, losses had been reduced and advertisers were responding well.Independent Newspapers took control… Continue reading Takeover Cuts Losses At Independent
Almost half the population is currently unaware of the existence of digital television (DTV) and a further 30% say that they are not interested in buying into the ‘television revolution’.These are the findings of a survey carried out by market research company, Experian, across 500,000 respondents. Of these one quarter said that they would, or… Continue reading 30% Of Viewers Are Not Interested In DTV, Says Survey
EMAP Online has expanded its sponsorship and ad sales team with the addition of Shan Henderson, formerly of Capital Interactive, and Clare Dobson, previously of Scoot.At Capital Interactive Henderson was a cross-media sponsorship executive in charge of selling promotions and sponsorships across Capital’s radio and internet services. Dobson was a member of Scoot’s corporate sales… Continue reading EMAP Online Augments Ad Sales And Sponsorship Team
ITV is to re-launch its website, and is understood to have put Real Time Studios in charge of the task. The group has severed its ties with ITN, which jointly produced the original site with IPC Magazines.A spokesperson for ITV said that there was no negativity involved in its split from ITN, and that it… Continue reading ITV Website Revamp
From next month News International will increase the ad rates on both The Times and The Sunday Times, claiming increases in circulation as justification for the rises.On 6 September The Sunday Times‘ ratecard will increase by 5%; the following day ad prices at The Times go up by 10%. A spokesperson from News International’s advertising… Continue reading News International Hikes Ad Ratecards
