News brands
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…
10 winners and losers: 3 things every publisher needs
In the clockwork orange world, UK publishers (and their peers around the world) are trying to get to…
Rupert Murdoch in London and on the edge
The hype runs deep. But Wednesday and Thursday this week really could become the most humbling days of…
Murdoch ‘swan song’ as natives threaten trad media
As the UK’s chatterers await the launch this weekend of The Sun on Sunday, be prepared for a…
How NOT to save newspapers: sad story of UK’s ‘Daily Mirror’
Sixty years ago in June, Axel Springer, Germany’s own Citizen Kane, launched Bild. The new daily unashamedly copied…