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“Cardiff University surveyed 42 national science, health and technology news journalists from across the UK as part of a Government-commissioned report. Some 46 per cent said that most of the time they were “passive recipients” of news stories and 22 per cent said they no longer have time to sufficiently fact-check stories they put their names to.”
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MEN Media’s profits fell 50 percent in the year to March 29 2009. Sayeth How Do: “Sales fell from £86.1m to £71.6m, with a more marked downturn in profits from 2008′s £13.1m down to £6.1m.”
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Addiply’s Lichfield Blog ad page. £10 per month per ad – it generates £60 pm. It’s very, very simple.
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[Monty] said the digital strategy could cover permanent losses in print ad revenue, which he estimated at 5% across Europe, in the long-run, with the help of the £124m cost-cutting programme MeCom’s already implemented.
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Andrews = only reporter in the room – among many – to spot that Hadfield quitting
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I cannot shake the feeling that papers’ sought-after special treatment on council papers needs to be better expressed. Why exactly should councils stop what they’re doing? Because the news biz is in a tight spot? Because it’s just ‘not cricket’?
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Interesting business
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and Times Online isn’t the only News Corp property keen on the SEO-supported free model either…
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Bit depressing to shrink business creativity to a “trending topic” isn’t it? But still, great to see someone give oxygen of publicity to new start-ups.
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At least someone is still launching local rags…
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“Accounts filed by Guardian News and Media reveal that the company paid £4m for website PaidContent in 2008 – rather than the £15m ($30m) which has previously been reported. Press Gazette understands that the higher figure, which was widely quoted at the time, was dependent on the highest possible future performance figures for the blog-based media business news site -started by journalist and web entrepreneur Rafat Ali.”
