I have long avoided making predictions about the future because the one thing I have learned is that they ae invariably wrong.
Reading David Leigh, an assistant editor of th Guardian, yesterday on the question of whether reporters are doomed, I hoped my theory stands up this time.
The media and journalism is certainly changing and a [...]
Archant, the regional newspaper group based in Norwich, may have arrived at a better approach to managing change in the industry than its rivals. It has been steadily developing and buying magazines which in general circulate in the same areas as their newspapers.
The half-year figures show modest increases in both turnover and operating profit. John [...]
You can learn a lot from he state of anyone’s desk. Sophie Morris, at the Independent, has been finding out about the offices of editors.
Roger Alton of the Observer reveals a survival strategy: "One of my bosses once told me he didn’t like people putting pictures of their family on their desk because [...]
Can separate regulation of the media (statutory Ofcom for for broadcast and the voluntary Press Complaints Commission for print) last in an age of converged media?
Peter Preston, in the Observer, today has no doubt which he prefers. He points out that while the PCC turns round judgments in five weeks, Ofcom has [...]
I haven’t been able to find a copy of the new-look Press Gazette yet, so no comment on that. The website has been spruced up too and looks good with clear navigation, but still lacking full content online.
Of course, with an audience that universally has access to the web they need to [...]
Behind the annual figures from Archant, the Norwich-based regional publisher which show a 6.8% drop in 2006 operating profit to £29.5m, lies an interesting shift in their business. Expansion of their 75-strong local magazine business is replacing some of the fall in profits of their four daily and 85 weekly papers.
The figure shows the decline [...]
I have had a couple of pleasant days talking to students who have returned from work placements. They have come back more confident, feeling like real journalist, after using the reporting skills we have been encouraging them to develop since the autumn.
They are happy and more convinced than ever that they want to be journalists, [...]
Cosmopolitan is 35 this month and Carol Sarler in the Daily Mail has taken a look at the latest edition and likens it to walking down the street and bumping into a friend you have not seen for years:
But as you look closer, your pleasure turns to horror - for she is not the gal [...]
Adam Tinworth looks at a shelf of magazines published by his employer and wonders if the “slow death of the published magazine at the hands of the internet might not be a good thing, at least in terms of the environment.”
His thought was prompted by a report that deforestation is responsible for more global warming [...]
That IPC is prepared to invest £27 million in a new weekly celeb and fashion mag for women is a clear sign of their confidence in the market. This week 1.2 million free copies of the launch issue of Look are in the supermarkets and and newsagents.
With the publishers predicting weekly sales of 250,000 within [...]
