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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…
Can magazines really compete as online retailers?
Magazines are perfect for ecommerce. Or are they? Well, the major online women’s retailers – like Net-a-Porter, ASOS,…
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…