headlines
Gannett’s USA Today partners with American Media to publish 12 special magazines
24 January 2013 | The Wall Street JournalAdvertisers in India turn to vernacular print and digital outlets in search for new markets
18 June 2013 | afaqs!
Tribune Co. advertising revenue dropped 6% in 2012, circulation revenue up 8%
18 June 2013 | Poynter
New Irish Times start-up challenge focuses on developing new forms of digital advertising
18 June 2013 | Journalism.co.uk
Financial Times to offer education customers royalty-free republishing rights to its articles
18 June 2013 | inPublishing
Advertising and Marketing
Mobile real-time bidding spending in Europe increased 275% in Q1 2013
17 June 2013 | MediaPost
Aol chief calls for native-advertising standards to allow format to scale
17 June 2013 | AdWeek
Rate of growth of global ad spend predicted to double to 6% in 2014, Latin American market to lead at 12%
17 June 2013 | Warc
Audience
Patch traffic has remained flat since May 2012 despite heavy investment by Aol
14 June 2013 | Business Insider
Trinity Mirror moves 3 more regional titles to monthly circulation audits
12 June 2013 | inPublishing
Only 2 Trinity Mirror regional titles show gains as group posts first monthly audit figures
11 June 2013 | Press Gazette
Content
Some Washington Post-owned community newspapers to move to paid access
17 June 2013 | Poynter
Facebook to introduce hashtag support for users, marketers
13 June 2013 | MediaPost
News publishers triple video offerings in 2013, 40% run video ads for the first time
12 June 2013 | paidContent
Corporate Strategy
Telegraaf Media Groep outlines new corporate strategy, including closure of low-growth classified platforms
17 June 2013 | AIM Group
Express Newspapers to create 40 new online editorial positions in digital-first strategy push
12 June 2013 | The Guardian
News Corp. shareholders approve spin-off of publishing assets into separate company
12 June 2013 | Bloomberg
Earnings and Finances
Fairfax Media promises additional A$50 million in cost savings by 2015, no drop in print frequency
10 June 2013 | Sydney Morning Herald
Fairfax warns of further revenue drops, pledges deeper cost-cutting
07 June 2013 | Australian Associated Press
News Corp. announces write-down of up to US$1.4 billion in publishing business as board approves split
28 May 2013 | Los Angeles Times
Labour
Local World begins merging reporting, copy-editing functions, job losses expected
13 June 2013 | Press Gazette
U.K. Times to cut 20 positions as daily, Sunday operations merge and News Corp. subsidies end
11 June 2013 | The Telegraph
West Australian Newspapers to eliminate up to 100 positions in latest round of cost-cutting
11 June 2013 | ABC
Launches and Transactions
Tentative €1.2 million agreement reached for Sunday Business Post, will involve 30% cost cuts
14 June 2013 | Irish Times
Johnston Press, STV partner to launch fixed-fee recruitment service in Scotland
14 June 2013 | inPublishing
Tribune Co. newspaper sale could be complicated by company’s stake in digital classified companies
14 June 2013 | Chicago Business Journal
Media
Ecuador legislature approves curbs on news media
17 June 2013 | The New York Times
Twitter makes its analytics tools available for free to all users
17 June 2013 | The Next Web
Singapore media sector predicted to grow 20% to 2017, powered by mobile Internet subscribers
13 June 2013 | Channel News Asia
Platforms
Google to begin lowering search rankings for sites that don’t optimise for smartphones
14 June 2013 | Internet2Go
U.S. desktop digital ad spending predicted to decline in 2014, will be overtaken by mobile
13 June 2013 | Advertising Age
Report predicts global spending on mobile Internet access will overtake fixed-line spending by 2015
11 June 2013 | The Media Briefing
Research
Google seen better positioned than incumbent measurement techniques to deliver large-scale digital audience data
20 May 2013 | Monday Note
U.S. university opens centre to develop new measurements of media impact
29 April 2013 | The New York Times
comScore launches cross-platform reporting system
27 March 2013 | AIM Group
