Jeremy Hunt is set to ask Ofcom to establish an agreed means of measuring cross-media ownership in the UK following the row over Rupert Murdoch’s previous bid for BSkyB.
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The daily national newspaper market saw circulation figures drop off in August after a positive July. Overall the market is down -0.2% PoP and -5.6% YoY. Five titles in the daily market managed to post small PoP rises.
UK publishers will focus on audience profiling and driving content across mobile platforms such as the iPad and smartphones in the next year, according to the AOP’s annual Content & Trends Census.
Tom Mockridge, News International’s new chief executive, has told staff that numbers will be reduced and there will be discussions with editors about the use of casual staff.
News International is set to sell its Wapping site, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.
The latest ABC release for the regional newspaper market is very illuminating – not for the continued percentage declines in newspapers sold, which continues unabated, but for the online usage stats.
Today’s ABC release paints a fairly poor picture for the regional newspaper market, with all but one newspaper group in our analysis posting percentage declines in the January to June period.
James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, wants to escape the narrow ghetto of specific media choices…
The latest NRS figures for July 2010 to June 2011 reflects another poor 12 months for the national newspaper market – with just one title seeing its readership increase over the year.
Johnston Press has seen pre-tax profits drop in the first half of the year to £13.8 million, down 47.5% year on year.