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How dailies must change to compete in global news
For more than 50 years, newspapers and TV dominated news coverage almost everywhere. Then, the internet created the…
7 April 2015
Heroes & Villains: another big week for Vice News
Heroes Shane Smith just keeps moving. Just six months after he raised $500m by selling 20% of Vice shares…
27 March 2015
This week’s Heroes & Villains
Here’s the first of our weekly run-down of winners and losers in a big headlining – and money-losing…
20 March 2015
Can this Brit reinvent B2B magazine-media?
Time was when business-to-business media groups seemed the least likely to be disrupted by the web. Executives routinely…
18 March 2015
Can newspapers manage the future of news?
What is it about daily newspapers? Falling circulations and advertising have broken business models that cannot be mended…
1 March 2015
Are traditional media chiefs too old to compete?
Traditional media is rightly obsessed with “millennials”, the 18-34 year-olds who have grown up with the internet. They…
5 February 2015
DuckDuckGo search: 5 things you need to know
What? When hacking group Anonymous disabled a jihadist web site in traumatized France last weekend, it redirected users…
13 January 2015
What (or who) is the future for Time Inc?
Everybody is watching Time Inc. The world’s most famous magazine publisher, which created the original newsweekly in 1923,…
24 December 2014
Is this Brit really turning magazines into retailers?
Magazine publishers can get confused about the future. Long-established, much-loved print brands have loyal, passionate readers. And many…
5 December 2014
15 media predictions for 2015
Here are 15 global media industry developments that could occur during 2015:
4 November 2014