Raymond Snoddy: ‘The Editors’, both present and former, turned out to be a motley lot with no coherent view, either of the world or media regulation, at the Leveson inquiry this week. But, fear not, help is at hand – bring on the politicians…
More Press articles
News Corp shares rose to a 52-week record in the year’s first week of trading – topping the highs it reached before the phone-hacking scandal in July.
Trinity Mirror has acquired digital communications company Communicator Corp for £8 million.
The New York Times partnership with Ralph Lauren to sponsor the newspaper’s iPad app has been deemed a success.
Raymond Snoddy: If the behaviour of NotW journalists should turn out to be only bad, shocking, disgraceful and illegal as opposed to be beyond the pale of anything recognisably human, we have to wonder whether the Leveson inquiry has been set up on what is at least partially a false premise?
Jim Marshall reviews the trials and tribulations of the press during the past year, but says it might just be that we will look back on 2012 as a year when newspapers became resurgent…
The daily newspaper market saw circulation figures fall -1.8% PoP and -6.8% YoY in November. Just two dailies posted an increase in sales – the Daily Mail and i.
Greg Grimmer looks back at 2011 – Facebook’s ever-increasing IPO valuation, Stephen Haines’ move from Earlsfield to Monaco, the royal media wedding and the News of the World fiasco, right through to December’s silly season in Fitzrovia…
While we have all been fixated by the daily mayhem oozing out from the Leveson Committee another potentially more important inquiry has been moving at its usual, seemingly glacial, speed towards an outcome.
BARB’s future focus is on measuring viewing on other devices. It is adding web TV measurement to a further 1000 panel homes next year and this could be the point at which it can start reporting on viewing through laptops and PCs.