Raymond Snoddy, questions the definition of news – from a shaggy dog story that is more newsy than a Royal engagement to the extent to which TV news is “lead by the nose” by everything from dramatic pictures to stunts manufactured by interest groups to get attention…
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Circulation figures failed to pick up in October, with the daily newspaper market posting a higher fall than September’s 5.3% drop.
The Times and Sunday Times’ online offering attracts the majority of its audience from the UK.
Business secretary Vince Cable has intervened in News Corp’s attempted takeover of BSkyB.
News Corporation has officially notified the European Commission that it intends to make a takeover bid for BSkyB.
Raymond Snoddy reveals all from the MediaPro conference – GNM is making more money from its online dating service than NI is from Times online; i has only been selling around 125,000 a day; and Lebedev says the Standard and The Independent are “definitely doomed” if they stay as they are…
Jim Marshall questions i’s positioning and cover price; and wonders whether newspapers are facing a daunting challenge if futurist Ross Dawson’s prediction that the UK newspaper industry will be extinct by 2020 is to be believed…
News International has finally released some hard figures for the Times paywall, months after the publisher started charging for access.
Raymond Snoddy thinks the launch of i is one sign of a new confidence in print… “The hangdog look has gone and there is mounting evidence that advertising will continue to return – as long as the government doesn’t manage to engineer a double-dip recession”.
The facts on The Independent’s new 20p quality newspaper i, plus reactions so far…