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News International warned staff yesterday that it plans cut 65 editorial jobs across its four national newspaper titles as part of an efficiency drive.The Sunday Times is set to lose 20 journalist, while the Times, the Sun and the News of the World will each lose 15 editorial staff as a result of the cuts.However,… Continue reading News International to cut 65 jobs

Although the overall trend in the home interest sector was of declining circulations, a couple of titles did manage to show some growth.National Magazine Company’s Coast was up an impressive 14.7% year on year according to the ABC figures for July to December, taking its circulation to more than 42,000 copies.Country Homes & Interiors, published… Continue reading ABC Results Jul-Dec 2008:Coast makes waves in the home interest sector

All of the titles in the TV Listing Magazines sector have seen year on year circulation declines in the latest ABC release for July to December 2008.However, three of the titles enjoyed period on period rises, including BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times (1.4%), H Bauer’s Total TV Guide (1%) and IPCs TV Times (1.9%).TV Choice remains… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:All TV listing titles see circulation declines again this period

Condé Nast’s handbag sized Glamour magazine remains top of the women’s monthly sector in the latest ABC release, for July to December 2008, despite seeing a slight dip of 0.4% year on year, taking it to just below 550,000 copies.However, the new John Lewis in-store free magazine, Source, by John Brown Group, isn’t far behind,… Continue reading ABC Results July-Dec 2008:Glamour stays on top of the women’s monthly sector

Ahead of the much-anticipated ABC Consumer Magazines data release tomorrow, NewsLine wonders what the future holds for consumer magazines.In the last few months alone, we’ve seen Dennis launch one magazine but close another (see Dennis launches new poker magazine), Exchange & Mart migrate to a digital-only format amid falling circulation figures (see Exchange & Mart… Continue reading The future of consumer magazines

News International is in talks with News Corp about creating a behavioural targeting network across its properties, on sites such as MySpace and Sky.The network would allow News International titles, such as The Sun and The Times, to share data on reader behaviour and enable brands to target across both publisher’s sites.Martin Corke, head of… Continue reading News International and News Corp in behavioural targeting talks

Condé Nast has appointed Catherine Ostler, former editor of the Evening Standard’s ES magazine, as the new editor of Tatler.Ostler is set to replace Geordie Greig, who stepped down from the role earlier this month to become the editor of the London Evening Standard, under new owner Alexander Lebedev.Lebedev has also re-appointed managing director Andrew… Continue reading Tatler appoints new editor

Buoyed by the increasing financial uncertainty in world markets, January saw free business title City AM‘s distribution figure grow 3.7% year on year to 87,655.The Evening Standard‘s circulation dipped slightly year on year, by around 0.5% to just under 293,000 copies, although it was up month on month.Evening freesheet thelondonpaper remained relatively static year on… Continue reading City AM enjoys year on year growth

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market was down overall by 3.8% year on year in January.There were relatively large year on year declines for the Independent, Daily Record and Daily Mirror, while the Daily Star managed to buck the overall trend. National Newspaper ABC Figures – January 2009 Daily Titles Jan-08 Jan-09 Actual Change… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: January 2009

News International plans to slash the cover price of its new-look Saturday Times by 50p to £1 for a limited period, as part of a seven-week marketing drive.The third-off price cut is part of the publisher’s £2 million advertising campaign, which has been created by CHI & Partners in association with brand consultant Venturethree, to… Continue reading Times cuts Saturday cover price