Times Online: Express and Telegraph clash on joint-venture pension plan

Posted on 14 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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."

Times Online: Why the glum share story for newspapers?

Posted on 9 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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"

Times Online: Business big shot: Richard Desmond

Posted on 7 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"[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."

Observer: Desmond takes Express delivery of £40m

Posted on 7 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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.

Times Online: How couple helped to build ‘brand McCann’ into global phenomenon

Posted on 12 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"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."

The Business: Writing on the wall for papers not investing in online editions

Posted on 9 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

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

Peter Preston: Paperless newspapers are virtually a reality

Posted on 29 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"the British national papers most likely to let weakness be their eventual newsprint demise are also the most vestigial when it comes to net presence.... "

currybetdotnet : Newspapers 2.0: Bloglines newspaper blog RSS subscription figures

Posted on 24 May, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Martin Belam looks at newspaper blogs' popularity based on Bloglines subscription figures for 107 newspaper blogs from seven newspapers.

currybetdotnet: The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page

Posted on 8 April, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Martin Belam tries to solve the riddle "What is the Daily Express actually for?" with a content analysis of Express front pages. Princess Diana is only the fifth most-common splash.

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