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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…
11 May 2012
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…
7 May 2012
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…
21 April 2012
B2B in a new world where ‘need to know’ is not quite what it seems
It’s a tale of two traditional media sectors which once thought the world of magazines and now find…
10 April 2012
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…
24 February 2012
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…
9 February 2012
Is Leo Laporte the future of TV everywhere?
If you want to see the future of TV, go 35 miles north of San Francisco to the…
5 January 2012
James Packer wins casino bets – and heads back to media?
James Packer is the most famous man in Australia. He’s the 44-year-old businessman whom Aussies variously admire, despise,…
5 December 2011
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…
23 November 2011
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,…
9 November 2011