Raymond Snoddy evaluates this week’s news about consolidation in publishing – regional newspapers and books.
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MediaTel’s ‘Electronic Trading Debate’ held on Thursday 11 October opened by considering what had happened in the last 12 months since MediaTel had held a similar event called ‘Why aren’t we all trading electronically?’
The latest ABC release for the regional press continues to show online usage increasing for the regional networks. The top network is still Trinity Mirror with over nine million monthly unique browsers.
A po-faced old lady sitting alone at her dining table declaring, ‘I don’t like tea – I like gin’, has held off competition from meerkats, Gary Lineker and a child dressed as Darth Vader to become the UK’s most-liked TV ad of 2011.
Anyone with even a vague interest in the future of newspapers should pause for a moment and ponder the fate of two small newspapers in Kent – the Medway News and the East Kent Gazette.
There is another walking, breathing, potential solution to at least some of the problems of the local publishing industry and he is called Sir Ray Tindle. Tindle Newspapers, famously started after the war with Sir Ray’s £300 demob payment, has always seemed particular – one man’s vision.
Shares in the Daily Mail & General Trust fell by 9% after the publishing group released its half-yearly financial report.
Today’s ABC release paints a fairly mixed picture for the regional newspaper market, though some newspaper groups performed particularly well during the July to December period.
In response to Raymond Snoddy’s Is there no good news on the local and regional press? article, Adam Isherwood, owner of www.seeitonthenet.co.uk, says giving classified advertisers what they want is the way forward for local papers…
In response to Raymond Snoddy’s Is there no good news on the local and regional press? article, Steve Niemiec, technical director at Laser Solutions Ltd, says if local media is not to be lost, the major players need to revitalise themselves and start producing products the consumer actually wants…