Business secretary Vince Cable has intervened in News Corp’s attempted takeover of BSkyB.
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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…
Nielsen’s latest wire post unveils the numbers and demographics of people accessing the Times paywall for the first time…
Having been apparently bullish about its aggregated news product when we covered developments just weeks ago, it appears now that News Corporation has pulled the plug on “Project Alesia”.
The first three quarters of 2010 saw a dramatic reduction in press title closures in the UK.