The Bancroft family has accepted what was inevitable for the past three months and agreed to the sale of Dow Jones, which includes the Wall Street Journal, to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
The controlling family was split from the moment the offer was made and the pressure was on those who did not want [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s chances of gaining control of Dow Jones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, are looking much better after the Bancroft family which controls 64% of the voting shares said they would talk to News Corporation.
In a statement, the family said it would meet Murdoch "to determine whether, in the context of [...]
Roy Greenslade has picked up on Telegraph editor Will Lewis’s opening address at the 6th International Newsroom Summit and thinks it implies that the Telegraph group is going to follow other mainstream publishers into battle against Google.
According to ifra, Lewis called on newspapers to welcome transformation as a friend. The traditional business model would be [...]
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 [...]
It often seems that history began some time in the early 1990s. While the internet has given us unprecedented free access to information, it is not good for the facts and opinion that give us the longer perspective.
From the desktop, the 1980s seems like the dark ages. So it is disturbing that libraries are under [...]
I don’t think it is complete tosh. In his post yesterday on the death of Press Gazette Neil McIntosh seems to be pointing to a way of resurrecting of at least the spirit of journalism’s trade mag as a web publication.
Now, why would McIntosh who is the Guardian Unlimited’s head of editorial development suggest anything [...]
The idea that the Press Gazette should be owned by a trust along the lines of the Scott Trust that runs the Guardian is attractive. It is important to the industry that there should be independent reporting and scrutiny in a time of rapid change, but it will not be easy to realise the dream [...]
The German media giant Bertelsmann is to invest $63 million in getting new digital media projects on their feet. They have established a new venture capital fund, says Innovations in Newspapers. The plan is to take minority stakes in young digital media companies.
Some rather surprising statistics suggest that the regional press is increasing its readership. Hold the Front Page reports that 400,000 new readers have been added according to the 2006 edition of Target Group Index, an annual market research survey published by the British Market Research Bureau.
The number of people who read a regional newspaper but [...]
DVDs are one way of boosting newspaper circulations but bribing people is another. This afternoon I went to a railway station news-stand to buy a bottle of Coke and handed it to the sales assistant to scan. “Can I scan this paper ?” she asked, picking up a copy of the Sun. “You get the [...]
