News brands
Is the world’s first media group now the best?
Many traditional media companies are tormented by the twin challenges of a glorious, imperious past and the disruption…
22 December 2013
How BuzzFeed will be the world’s largest news service
2013 has been the year of BuzzFeed. It started by raising $19.3m from investors and continued with the…
9 December 2013
What FT’s success says about future of newspapers
We should not be side-tracked by the one-dimensional debate about whether newspapers will survive or not. They will.…
14 November 2013
How ‘London Live’ can change the future of media
The 2014 launch of a London TV channel is set to create a new model for the integration…
18 September 2013
How ‘print’ can get WISE and profitable on web
Digital media success depends on the three Cs: Content, Community and Commerce. But newspapers and magazines struggle to…
10 August 2013
Harvard professor who is reinventing traditional media
Hollywood loves stories about newspapers, so they should go for this one. A Harvard professor lectures on how…
20 June 2013
How to find digital success in ‘melting’ media
Newspapers and magazines continue to suffer from falling advertising and circulation revenue. No change there. But, as the…
9 May 2013
Will the classifieds battle kill paid-for newspapers?
Classified advertising was the unsung hero of print media in the second half of the 20th century. Newspapers and…
24 April 2013
‘Generation N’ can put profit into newspapers
It’s been just like the old days in Britain this week. There’s been fierce coverage for and against…
10 April 2013
Look who’s coming to save daily newspapers…
Journalists like writing about newspapers in a “How-can-the-world-exist-without-us?” kind of way. Not even collapsing readership and advertising revenue…
26 March 2013