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Guardian Media Group: How City fund managers and cost-cutting saved Mr Marx’s cash cushion

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 9 June 2010

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Tomorrow, when Guardian Media Group publishes its annual accounts for the year to March 2010, those who regard The Guardian as a perverse charity that distorts competition will argue that not much has changed. They might even point to an increased pre-tax loss at GMG — courtesy of paper-based write-offs — as evidence of deterioration. [...]

Stop the presses #2: A long way to the all-digital future

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 26 May 2010

To say the least, the notion of “switching off the presses” is simplistic. There will be complicating factors we can only vaguely imagine. Here are a few that might emerge: 1) Print could generate profits after digital revenue streams mature Fickle investors who buy shares in the likes of DMGT, News Corp and Trinity Mirror [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Daily Mail & General Trust, News Corporation, Telegraph Media Group, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

How should media do technology?

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 8 January 2010

Heard the one about Sky launching an own-brand touchscreen tablet? If you can take any more rumour-mongering during the week in which the world’s technology journalists converged on CES, the scuttlebutt I’m hearing is that Sky is “very interested” in bringing to market a “fourth screen” device that offers browsing, video conferencing, e-reading and – [...]

Posted in Digital, Newspapers, TV | Also tagged Anthony Rose, BBC, BSkyB, CES, Hulu, Nokia, Sky, Sony, Thomson Reuters, Torsten De Riese | Comments closed

Telegraph vs. Guardian: The mystery of 100 job losses

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 18 December 2009

Guardian Media Group is hopping mad with the Daily Telegraph for revealing its discussions with Trinity Mirror about a possible sale of the company’s regional newspapers. GMG has been stung by several aspects of the Telegraph’s story, including the allegation that the company is turning its back “on its heartland to keep the Guardian afloat”. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged compulsory redundancies, Daily Telegraph, Guardian Media Group, Manchester Evening News | Comments closed

Guardian News & Media: Not that far out of line with the market, after all

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 18 November 2009

Did 25% of Guardian News & Media’s revenue base really disappear into thin air between April and September? Last week, the Guardian itself left the door open to this interpretation. The Times appeared to confirm it, suggesting that revenues at the Guardian and the Observer had declined by £33m since April. The contextual maths are [...]

Posted in Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged Daily Mail & General Trust, Guardian Media Group, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Guardian Media Group: Mr Marx’s incredible shrinking cash cushion

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 16 June 2009

So we learn that Guardian Media Group will report an overall operating loss for the 12 months to March 2009 — its first such loss for several years. How big is the deficit? We’ll find out in early August, when GMG publishes its accounts. But based around reports of McCall’s presentation to staff yesterday, here’s [...]

Posted in Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged Carolyn McCall, Guardian Media Group, guardian.co.uk, The Guardian, The Observer | Comments closed

TMS Syndrome & Open Platform: Never mind the contradiction, feel the width

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 13 March 2009

Emily Bell, director of digital content at the Guardian, has had an interesting week. On Monday, Bell kicked things off by heralding the end of what she calls TMS Syndrome. TMS stands for Too Much Stuff. This is the compulsion to “create more in all formats” that has haunted publishers for the past decade. TMS [...]

Posted in Digital, Newspapers | Also tagged Emily Bell, Open Platform, The Guardian, TMS Syndrome | Comments closed

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Tag Archives: Guardian News & Media

Guardian Media Group: How City fund managers and cost-cutting saved Mr Marx’s cash cushion

Stop the presses #2: A long way to the all-digital future

How should media do technology?

Telegraph vs. Guardian: The mystery of 100 job losses

Guardian News & Media: Not that far out of line with the market, after all

Guardian Media Group: Mr Marx’s incredible shrinking cash cushion

TMS Syndrome & Open Platform: Never mind the contradiction, feel the width

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