Charles Norrie responds to Raymond Snoddy: Unlike Mr Snoddy, I rejoiced at the end of the News of the World, only marred by the sickening display of its editor and staff when the last paper was produced.
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News Corporation has reported full-year operating income of $4.98 billion (£3.08 billion) – up 12% on last year – driven by the success of television and cable network programming.
Raymond Snoddy: NotW rivals have been accused of missing an open goal but in reality salvaging around two million copies in the middle of the summer and in the current competitive climate facing all newspapers is a respectable performance. But it is now clear that Rupert Murdoch made a spectacular misjudgement when he decided to close down the NotW…
According to our estimates for 31 July (for Sunday Popular and Mid-Market titles), the market is now down nearly half a million copies from June’s ABC figure.
National Magazine Company, Hearst Corporation’s main UK business, and Hachette Filipacchi have been rebranded as Hearst Magazines UK.
Future, which is set to launch its 100th digital edition for the iPad, says sales of digital editions and bespoke apps on tablets are now on track to become one of the publisher’s biggest drivers of revenue and profit growth.
After the scale of the famine in Somalia, the atrocities in Norway and Amy Winehouse’s premature death, the news agenda (both print and broadcast) is led once again by the phone hacking saga…
The UK’s national newspaper websites suffered a drop in usage in June, with almost all audited sites recording a small drop in both daily and monthly figures.
Sunday 17 July was the big one – the once in a quarter of a century opportunity for newspaper publishers to grab a larger circulation base and market share following the closure of the News of the World the week before. Sales were up but this week tells a different story…
Just at the very moment when the official launch of the silly season seemed inevitable, along came the most dreadful atrocity from the most unexpected of all places – Norway. Then Amy Winehouse died. Couldn’t she have waited a couple of days and then she could have been given the full, unambiguous dead tragic star/hero treatment without any Norwegian neo-Nazis getting in the way.