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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…
Is he the world’s smartest magazine publisher?
The twentieth century was “The Magazine Century”. Times when great people did great things with magazines, whose births…
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…
Can Australia’s best magazines recover?
Private equity group CVC is this week hosting directors of its Nine Entertainment Company, whose Channel Nine has…
Meet the genius behind Britain’s last magazine boom
We may well live to read “where-were-you-when…” obituaries for Time magazine and Rolling Stone. But this month, a stream…
Radio broadcasters face digital dogfight with internet
Radio has always confused media futurologists and defied the sceptics. The sound-only medium survived the conquest of TV…
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…
iPad comes to the rescue of magazines (sort of)
UK magazine publisher Mark Wood knew what everyone was thinking: “The iPad is not the saviour of magazines”.…