Journalism.co.uk: FT.com ‘explodes’ with 250 per cent rise in unique users
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:08
"According to FT.com internal figures, page views on the site yesterday were up 300 per cent and unique users up 250 per cent compared to figures for the same date last year. … FT.com's figures follow a report in the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel, which claimed the BBC's business pages recorded their best ever traffic after reporting the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers."
One Man and His Blog: More Evidence for the Death of Print
Friday, 5 September 2008, 16:49
Adam Tinworth: "When I heard that Press Gazette was switching to publishing once a month, with a features-led magazine, I thought it sounded like a good plan. It was exactly the sort of solution that could save a title - moving upmarket with a more analytical bent. How much to subscribe? £115. That's £7.67 per issue on the current "15 for the price of 12" offer or an eye-watering £9.58 without the offer. That's frankly insane. They're either relying on corporate subscriptions - not a good idea in the current financial climate - or they seriously over-estimate how much disposable income the average journalist has."
Press Gazette: Media Money: No death for print — until the last drop of profit hits the bottom line
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:53
Peter Kirwan: "B2B technology publishing is the kind of market where readers migrated online long ago. The one thing a new entrant wouldn’t do under any circumstances is to launch a weekly print magazine. Actually, no-one has done it for the best part of a decade. But oddly, after closing IT Week’s print edition, this is exactly what Incisive will continue to do by continuing to publish Computing. . . as a weekly magazine."
Press Gazette: As IT weeklies merge Incisive warns rivals to change before it’s too late
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:46
"As Incisive Media’s first edition of its merger of technology weeklies IT Week and Computing comes out today, managing director Graham Harman has warned that other business titles will need to follow their example or be left behind."
Sunday, 11 November 2007, 10:26
Comments
"Guardian Media Group is expected to take a minority stake in Incisive Media, owner of Legal Week and Accountancy Age, if its joint £1.2 billion bid with the private-equity firm Apax for Emap’s business division succeeds."
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 09:33
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"Apax, the private equity firm, has teamed up with the publisher of The Guardian newspaper to mount a joint £1.2bn bid for Emap’s business publishing division … as it would fit neatly with Incisive Media , in which [Apax] has a shareholding"
