Media Week: Mellowed Stan Myerson takes control of costs
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 08:56
Maybe this is why the Express web site was so keen to highlight the Media Week profile of their boss: "The group's year-on-year August ABCs were shocking, with the Daily Express down 9.5%, Sunday Express 16.9%, Daily Star 8.9% and Star on Sunday a whacking 24.3%. … The Express modestly bills itself as '10 times better than the Mail and 10p cheaper' and 'The World's Greatest Newspaper'. But while their papers are still extremely 'cash generative', Myerson and Desmond have patently failed to replicate OK!'s win over Hello! in the battle of the Express against deadly rival the Daily Mail. … Express Newspapers prepares to cull 80 more editorial jobs from an already threadbare team. The strategy is classic Desmond and reveals the ruthless attitude that underpins profits at Northern & Shell. Myerson says ad costs and cover price will also be looked at as newsprint, energy and transport costs soar over the next 12 months."
Daily Express: Media Week says Desmond and Myerson have recipe for profit
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 08:46
Stop press! Express bosses mentioned in somewhat positive media trade mag article.
Saturday, 28 June 2008, 19:25
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NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is ‘good for you’."
Friday, 23 May 2008, 17:58
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"The Beeb has, we can reveal, implemented a set of workshops for programme makers to “re-learn” how to make films that stand up to strict editorial guidelines." (Eh? "Reveal"?)
Friday, 21 March 2008, 13:24
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Maddy libel. A view from Canada: "Grovelling front-page apologies are nothing new to British journalism."
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 19:10
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"The editors of the Daily Express and Daily Star should resign. So should the editors of the Sunday Express and Daily Star on Sunday. They won’t, of course."
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 10:02
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Express apologises to the parents of Madeleine McCann: "Please note that, for legal reasons, we have disabled reader comments on this article."
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 23:44
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Martin Belam noteices that the agency that rebuilt the Express web site seems to have left live RSS feeds carrying dummy content and pointing at their staging servers…. oops.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 07:41
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"Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers is at loggerheads with Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay’s Telegraph Media Group in a dispute over the funding of the pension scheme for their Docklands printing joint venture West Ferry Printers."
Friday, 9 November 2007, 08:01
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Why are shares in the big regional newspaper companies so depressed at the moment? Johnston Press, for example, "s at its lowest level since the dark days of post-bubble 2001"
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 23:30
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"[Richard Desmond £40 million] payout is bound to inflame unions: it was made in the same year that Mr Desmond unveiled plans to make one in ten journalists on his national newspapers redundant."
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 12:34
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"Daily Express owner Richard Desmond paid himself over £40m last year, according to [Northern & Shell] accounts due to be made public this week." N&S turnover ws £460.5m; pre-tax profits were £9.1m.
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 08:36
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"What became ‘brand Madeleine’ arose from a combination of brilliant media-handling skills and, for the first time, interactive websites telling editors how much the public craved such a story."
Sunday, 9 September 2007, 13:51
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WTF? "Less than a year ago, the competition for the title of the UK’s leading newspaper website was a two horse race. Only Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph.co.uk (owned by the same parent company as The Business) had user figures that were worth measuri
