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The prospects for newspapers are not as gloomy as some think as long as they look to innovate, James Murdoch told the Monaco Media Forum on Wednesday.While Murdoch, who was making his first public appearance since he took over News Corp’s European and Asian businesses, said that the company’s UK titles were facing pressure from… Continue reading James Murdoch: Newspapers need to innovate

Daily Newspaper MarketThe NRS figures for April to September 2008 show that Britain’s daily national newspaper market was down 0.7% year on year in September.However, in the daily Quality sector, the Guardian and the Times both added an impressive number of readers year on year, while the Daily Telegraph was also up.The Sun recorded a… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: April – September 2008

Trinity Mirror has reported a 20.1% drop in its group ad revenues since the end of June, with property ad income falling by almost 50%.The newspaper group’s property ad revenue fell by 46.4% year on year, while recruitment ad income dropped 27% in the 17 week period from the end of June to October 26,… Continue reading Trinity Mirror ad revenue slumps

Johnston Press has today reported its total advertising revenues are down by 15.5% on the same period last year.Over the past four months, the company has revealed year on year declines in property ads of around 48.4%, employment ads by 32.1%, motors by 24.3% and display ads by 12.1%.Johnston Press confirmed its ad revenue loss… Continue reading Johnston Press suffers 15.5% advertising decline

Dennis Publishing has appointed Ben Raworth as the new editorial director of men’s lifestyle magazine Maxim.Raworth will take over the new role from this month, transferring from his current Dennis Publishing position as new product development editor, in which he has overseen the launches of Monkey, iGIZMO and iMOTOR.Reporting into Bruce Sandell, MD of the… Continue reading Maxim appoints new editorial director

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market suffered an overall circulation fall of 5.1% year on year in October.The only daily national title in our analysis to enjoy an increase in circulation was the Financial Times, up 0.5% year on year.There was a large year on year fall for the Independent, down 16.3%. National Newspaper… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: October 2008

October was a good month for the Evening Standard, with the title enjoying a 3% month on month increase in circulation.The Standard now has a total circulation figure of just under 307,000 copies.Morning business freesheet City AM saw its distribution figure rise by just under 1% in October, to over 101,000 copies.The afternoon freesheets London… Continue reading Evening Standard’s circulation up in October

The Daily Star has cut its cover price by 15p to just 20p, making it the cheapest national daily newspaper.The price cut makes the title 30p cheaper than the Daily Mail, 20p cheaper than the Daily Express and Daily Mirror, and 10p cheaper than The Sun.The Sun slashed its national cover price to 30p in… Continue reading Daily Star slashes cover price

News International is set to re-launch its Sunday Times Magazine supplement with a new TV, press and outdoor advertising campaign.The re-launch, which follows on from the Sunday paper’s redesign earlier this year (see Sunday Times Set For Full-Colour Relaunch), will feature a revamped front cover, more features and investigations, a more image-focused contents page and… Continue reading Sunday Times Magazine relaunches with ad campaign

US newspaper websites attracted more than 68.3 million unique visitors on average (41.4% of all internet users) in the third quarter of 2008, a record number that reflects a 15.8% year on year increase. According to figures from Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper website visitors generated an average of just over… Continue reading US Newspaper Websites Get Record Number Of Unique Visitors In Q3