News brands
What NY dotcom couple tells us about the future
These are get-real times for traditional newspaper and magazine publishers. The winners will be those who recognise 5 basic…
Springer-Mail ‘merger’ would create 2 world-beaters
The tectonic plates of newspaper-land are shifting. First, comes Rupert Murdoch’s brought-forward demerger of News Corp from what…
Will the UK’s last Press baron ditch newspapers?
After a deal this week to divest his regional newspapers, the last of Britain’s press barons is wrestling…
How newspapers, magazines must get radical…
Newspapers and magazines are the frontline of traditional media tormented by changing times. New and not-so-new competition has…
3 steps to seismic change in media
Life is confusing for incumbents. Ask any business school student. It’s not meant to be easy for traditional…
How Richard Desmond became a media billionaire
Richard Desmond is the rags-to-riches, pleased-with-himself Brit who has made a billion by upstaging established media leaders. Across…
10 hurdles as ‘old media’ dream of digital success
It is 10 years since US learning luminary Marc Prensky wrote his seminal work about “digital natives” (those…
Will most newspapers and magazines be free?
Newspapers and magazines have been rocked by collapsing advertising revenues. Hard copy is, quite simply, losing much of…
Newspapers in 4 countries show how to win a future
Daily newspapers will one day provide the most intriguing episodes in the story of how traditional media was…
Is this little Swiss company the future of newspapers?
What’s wrong with newspapers? We could spend the next year struggling to answer the question, while traipsing through…