Category Archives: Newspapers

More job cuts, a reprieve and an expansion

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011
Fairfax to lay off 45 advertising make-up staff in NZ New Zealand’s biggest newspaper proprietor, Fairfax Media is looking to lay off up to 45 staff by outsourcing their jobs to India, and to also close its printing site at Blenheim, where it publishes the Marlborough Express. “The company is considering outsourcing routine advertising make-up [...]
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Link wrap: Sharing traffic, crowdsourced constitution, Facebook growth slows

By Julie Starr | Published: June 15, 2011
A few links from recent reading. ShareThis Study: Facebook Accounts For 38 Percent Of Sharing Traffic On The Web TECHCRUNCH – Overall, sharing now produces an estimated 10 percent of all Internet traffic and 31 percent of referral traffic to sites from search and social. Search is still about twice as big. When it comes to [...]
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Links: profit by giving away, The Week grows & Facebook is ‘a news org’

By Julie Starr | Published: March 20, 2011
A few catch-up reads sitting in my Instapaper feed. How French Site OWNI Profits by Giving Away Its Content MEDIASHIFT | Mark Glaser A French site,OWNI.fr, has found an unusual business model for a site with no ads and no subscriptions — that’s also profitable. How do they do it? Their main business is doing [...]
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Who says what about the NY Times paywall

By Julie Starr | Published: March 18, 2011
A grab bag of who’s saying what about the NY Times paywall, details of which were announced in a post by New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr on March 17: Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions. It’s an important step that we hope you [...]
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Links: China Daily hits Europe and the Washington Post, new ABCs for the UK, and a ‘Facebook’ newspaper

By Julie Starr | Published: December 10, 2010
United Kingdom: China Daily Launches European Edition Publicitas China Daily, China’s leading English-language newspaper, will appear as a new weekly edition on UK news stands from 3 December. The European edition will be distributed in the UK and from Brussels, building on China Daily’s aspiration to be a newspaper which provides a window for China to [...]
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