How Vogue monetizes old content | Felix Salmon
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:13
Felix Salmon: “[Vogues'] archive will cost you $1,575 per year, but the price point makes sense to me. The value here is in the index: even if you had a full archive of Vogue back-issues sitting on your bookshelf (something many fashion-industry profes…
Runway Girl: Video: How Flightglobal covers big shows all over the world
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:20
How FlightGlobal covers aviation industry shows.
TheMediaBriefing: Centaur’s NMA closure and why B2B brands cannot escape digital transition
Friday, 1 July 2011, 08:12
Former editor Mike Butcher on the closure of the NMA print edition: “the whole operation was still geared largely to a weekly print cycle even while when people were getting their news via blogs (and now Twitter ) within minutes of it happening.”
New Media Age: new media age goes online only
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 19:39
"Over the coming months we’ll be introducing a number of digital services to subscribers, including a subscriber-only email service, a revamped mobile site and an iPad app."
Press Gazette: Accountancy Age scraps print edition
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:53
"Incisive Media's Accountancy Age is to go online-only from this week."
SourceWire Abacus e-Media announces MBO from Bond International Software PLC
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 14:39
"Abacus e-Media nnounces the completion of a management buy-out from its owner of four years, Bond International Software PLC. The management buy-out, which was finalised on Friday 8th April 2011, is backed by funding from management and from exte…
Press Gazette: RBI sells Computer Weekly and title goes online only
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 13:01
"Reed Business Information is to sell off its 45-year-old Computer Weekly title and associated events to IT publisher TechTarget, which will take the magazine online only. … TechTarget said today that ComputerWeekly.com receives an average of 42…
How-do: Retail Week goes mobile with 2ergo
Monday, 7 March 2011, 12:58
"2ergo has created a mobile website that aims to bring Retail Week’s 20th anniversary conference to life, encouraging greater interaction between delegates, speakers and the organisers themselves."
Press Gazette: Revenue up at UBM in year it closed 13 magazines
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 13:07
"UBM said it would continue with its strategy of managing the contraction of its print division – following on from it closing 31 titles and merging or reducing the frequency of others throughout 2009."
EmediaVitals: The blurring line between brands and publishers
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 14:10
"As brands dip further into content creation, publishers will need to be on their game to distinguish their offerings from vendor content — while also working closely with the brands on new ways to help them reach their target audiences."
Observer: Politico isn’t a newspaper. But it might be the future of print
Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:28
Peter Preston: "[Politico] is "niche journalism". It employs around 175 people now. It is in profit already. More than that, it seems on the point of launching specialist areas of coverage – niches within the niche – and stowing them away behind a paywall. … Find the right niche – say one that everyone who makes a living out of US government has to be aware of – and you have an audience worth chasing. Most of Politico's cash comes from the Capitol Hill paper it puts out one to five times a week. Print ads have a value the web can't reach yet. But the operation – a brand-new source of multimedia journalism, not a conventional newspaper – has few of print's hang-ups."
psmith, journalist: Blog to get a job in journalism: build a community, promote yourself and get networking
Monday, 1 November 2010, 19:43
Patrick Smith: "I remember those internal debates at [Press Gazette] very well and it really was a change in mindset from 'why should we send readers elsewhere?' to 'aggregation is a service'. A small example of how far B2B journalism has come a looong way in the last five years."
FT.com: Bloomberg launches $2,000 newsletters
Monday, 1 November 2010, 19:27
"A daily economics newsletter and three weekly titles covering hedge funds, mergers and structured notes have been available for free to customers of the Bloomberg Professional terminal service since June, and have amassed 35,000 subscribers. … The Bloomberg Brief newsletters will be sent digitally, as PDF files to be read on a computer screen or tablet computer, or text files accessible from a BlackBerry or other smartphone."
Press Gazette: Media Guardian retreats from B2B territory
Monday, 1 November 2010, 19:25
Hmmm: "The appointment of Dan Sabbagh as the new head of the Guardian’s media and technology team coincides with its retreat from seeking to compete with established trade players such as Press Gazette, Broadcast and Media Week."
