News brands
Can faded newspaper brands survive in a cut-price world?
Traditional media companies everywhere are in turmoil. Most are caught somewhere between maximising (as best they can) profits…
Will Abu Dhabi be a media capital – or end up in flames?
Abu Dhabi is a country on a mission. To become the oil state that built itself a real,…
Is this ‘secret’ business the world’s smartest media company?
The plight of traditional newspaper businesses is depressing many people in the UK, US, Australia and elsewhere. Journalists…
Can daily newspapers survive?
The media is accustomed to calling ‘time’ on industries. How many (or how few) newspapers ever spoke out…
Stand by for (gulp) the post-Murdoch media world
It’s time to use the past tense. Rupert Murdoch was the original international media mogul. Before him, there…
UK readers will miss Rupert Murdoch (honestly)
As predicted here and variously across the planet, Rupert Murdoch is in the fight of his life with…
And another thing about the ‘News of the World’…
The News of the World closure may have been a firewall for the storm threatening to envelop News…
UK phone hacking breaks open the box: what’s next?
News Corporation has been rocked by the latest phone hacking disclosure that its UK Sunday tabloid the News…
The power and vulnerability of Rupert Murdoch
This has been a big, bumpy month for the Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corporation, marked by: UK Government approval…
UK dailies pay future price for a glorious past
Britons are proud of their national newspapers, even those who no longer read one. The country, whose pioneering…