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The new blog by Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Strategy and Development at the Guardian Media Group.
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FT.com: GMG rethinks regionals
"Regional newspaper businesses will have to be "financially recalibrated" because in future they will have substantially smaller margins, according to the chief executive of Guardian Media Group."
FT.com: GMG rethinks regionals
"Regional newspaper businesses will have to be "financially recalibrated" because in future they will have substantially smaller margins, according to the chief executive of Guardian Media Group."
AllThingsD: Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million
"sources tell BoomTown that Britain’s Guardian Media Group is set to announce this morning that it will buy the company that runs the high-profile digital media news site paidContent for a price “north of $30 million.”
SimonWaldman.net: How newspapers should earn 10x as much as they do online. Or not.
Simon Waldman dissects that very, very strange Ernst & Young report from the other day... "Frankly, I think E&Y are being a bit disingenuous - flagging the £120-250m figure and then saying it’s not really what they were saying we could earn.."
Online Journalism Blog: A new nomination for Worst Newspaper Video – Reading Evening Post does it again
"[A]s before this is not [News Reporter Stuart White]'s fault. Step up owners Surrey and Berkshire Newspapers Limited, part of the Guardian Media Group."
How-Do: The MEN – ‘Business is our Business’
"The [Manchester Evening News} believes it is in a strong position to withstand and indeed see off the launch of Crain's Manchester Business in the coming months."
Times Online: Guardian’s Incisive move
"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."
Management Today: The MT Interview: Carolyn McCall
McCall: "... we have to be more overt about the Observer coming from the Guardian news and media stable. But we're not going to have the Guardian-on-Sunday - the Observer is a strong print brand."
Telegraph: Guardian joins Apax to bid for Emap titles
"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"
Reuters: Guardian Media CEO eyes buys ahead of U.S. push
"The chief executive of Britain's Guardian Media Group [Carolyn McCall] said on Monday the company was keen to buy business-to-business assets, but would not confirm whether she has put forward a bid for media group Emap."
SimonWaldman.net: Web 2.0 – a threat or opportunity for newspapers?
Simon Waldman: "I think the real shift here is not about blogging versus journalism - but sheer volume of news sources available to us - and therefore the need for new tools to that improve the way that people find and engage with news and information..."
Manchester Evening News: Future is online for Asian News
The Asian News, which is going online-only, has 41,000 unique visitors per month.
How-Do: Asian News closes print edition
Theasiannews.co.uk will now be MEN Media’s first purely digital publication.