Phew, what a week. Rupert Murdoch gives plenty of notice that he plans to introduce paywalls on all his news websites (prompting speculation that he’s signalling to fellow newspaper owners to hurry up with their own paywall plans): NEWS Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch has announced the company will charge readers to access [...]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Sir Anthony O'Reilly, the chief executive of the publisher of The Independent newspaper, is to step down. Sir Anthony, 72, has been involved with Independent News & Media for 36 years, and has a 28.6% stake in the group. His son, Gavin O'Reilly, who joined the business 16 years ago, will take over the role from 7 May.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I told myself I wouldn’t bother rounding up bad news about the new business anymore but feel like pointing to these: NZ writedowns hurt APN’s profit “Another Australasian media company – APN News & Media – is reducing the value of key assets as the advertising downturn bites on both sides of the Tasman. “The [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Fairfax is outsourcing sub-editing from its Sydney and Melbourne flagship papers to Pagemasters, the same company that handles pages for the NZ Herald and other APN titles.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Fairfax is taking a leaf out of APN's book with the announcement it will centralise some of its newspaper production. It means sub-editors based in two main centres - Wellington and Christchurch - will sub, lay out and produce pages for the Features, World and Business sections of its nine daily newspapers. Generic non-news pages such as TV and Weather will be standardised across the titles.
Friday, December 21, 2007
US newspapers are losing the battle for local online advertising to web-only players like Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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