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."
Here’s the Kicker: The invisible older woman
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 21:50
Louise Bolotin: "[T]his afternoon, [a] story broke that made me want to cry. This is a story that most women won’t hear of until they drop into their newsagent in a month’s time and ask the shopkeeper if they have the latest copy of Eve. And then they will learn that Eve has just been closed down. Eve was one of the very few magazines that catered for women in their 30s and 40s. … Most women in my age group are crying out for intelligent magazines like Eve. … We know what we want to read but publishers are not keen to give it to us. Apparently, the reason is that advertisers don’t want to sell to us."
New York Times: Freakonomics: Food Magazine Typo Poisons Sweden
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 15:53
"Tens of thousands of copies of a Swedish food magazine have been recalled this week after an error in an apple cake recipe sent four of its readers to the hospital with nutmeg poisoning."
Evening Standard: Regional papers face bigger woes than just an economic downturn
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 13:03
Roy Greenslade: "The crisis for regional papers is structural, stretching back way before this current economic slump and prior to the ubiquity of computer screens."
The Register: Scotland’s oldest newspaper exposes readers’ smalls in public
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 08:42
"Scottish newspaper The Aberdeen Press and Journal inadvertently made it easy to harvest sensitive information about registered users from its site as a result of a basic information security mistake. … The paper got its developers to fix the problem promptly, only hours after we relayed the concerns of Reg readers on Monday."
Broadcast: NME Radio kicks off multiplatform push
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 07:57
"NME Radio will host and record the Jack Daniels Birthday Sessions twice a week for the whole of September … The sessions will be recorded in the studios for NME radio and will be filmed in HD at the same time. The video will be uploaded on NME's online video player and may also be used to compile a series on NME TV later this year. Interviews around the performances will be posted online and profiled in NME magazine."
The Guardian: The Bauers - who are they?
Monday, 1 September 2008, 11:25
"Given the size of the company - in 2007 it was projected to turn over €1.79bn - it is surprising just how little leaks out of Bauer; publicly available information could fit on a side of A4."
BBC: Today: UK regional newspaper sales fall
Monday, 1 September 2008, 10:39
"Roy Greenslade, of City University, and Peter Barron, from the Northern Echo, discuss why regional dailies and weeklies are suffering most. "
Basingstoke Gazette: New Website To Reveal Safe Places To Eat
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 14:22
Same old story: Local paper covers local data service that it could have built itself. This time from the Basingstoke Gazette: "Safe2eat will list the latest food safety assessments by Hart District Council's environmental officers, and was set to go online on Friday."
Rebuilding Media: Transforming American Newspapers (Part 2)
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 07:32
Vin Crosbie: "[I]t is … ludicrous to think that the newspaper industry as it has operated for more than 400 years would not be extremely affected and stressed by those changes in not just how people can now access information but what types of information each person choose to access according to his preferences. This is why newspapers that have reacted merely by putting their printed content online are missing the point of the change."
Newspaper Association of America: Moving to Mobile
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:50
"'Moving to Mobile' is a growth and development guide from the Newspaper Association of America that covers the many aspects of mobile for newspapers. This includes information on advertising and local search, setting up and running mobile programs, reaching youth and the state of e-readers. It also includes case studies from newspapers finding success in this area."
Editor & Publisher: Turn and Face the Change - With Newspaper Industry in Crisis, ‘Everything’s on the Table’
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:43
"The time could be ripe for fulfilling a longtime fantasy of some publishers — eliminating dog days like Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday. It's fueled by the obvious fact that in the U.S., at least, newspapers generally lose money during the week and coin it on Fridays and Sundays. … "
Greenslade: Newspapers will not survive despite blind journalistic optimism
Friday, 22 August 2008, 09:43
"The problem, as I know well, is that too many journalists react to this kind of material by calling it doom-mongery, as if by recording reality we who have thus far correctly predicted the demise of print are somehow responsible for causing the demise."
