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Has Jeremy Hunt defined “sufficient plurality” in the UK news market?

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 8 March 2011

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Thanks to frantic politicking in the House of Lords, the 2003 Communications Act endorsed, but didn’t quantify, the idea of a “sufficient plurality” among news organisations in the UK. In the wake of the deal to spin off Sky News from News Corporation last week, have we now got a definition? In part, perhaps. Last [...]

Posted in Audiences, Digital, Journalism, Newspapers, Regulation, TV | Also tagged BBC, BSkyB, Daily Mail & General Trust, News Corp, Ofcom, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

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, Guardian News & Media, News Corporation, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

The curse of the moguls

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Monday 7 December 2009

Earlier this week, Eric Hommels offered us a glimpse of the challenges that confront venture capitalists across Europe. At a conference in London, Hommels asked: “Who is going to buy all the shit in our existing portfolios?” No doubt Hommels meant to say “stuff” rather than “shit”. All the same, his question is starting to [...]

Posted in Advertising, Film, Financial, TV | Also tagged Fred Destin, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jonathan Knee, Lew Wasserstein, MCA/Universal, Michael Bloomberg, News Corporation, Reuters, The Curse Of The Moguls | Comments closed

Paywall shmaywall. . .

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Thursday 20 August 2009

A few months back, Emily Bell, The Guardian’s director of digital content, promised that the debate about paywalls would become “a new battleground of publishing ideologies”. Sadly, the debate has so far produced no more than rhetoric – enough of it, surely, to power half-a-dozen general elections and a lifetime’s supply of Prime Minister’s Questions. [...]

Posted in Audiences, Digital, Newspapers | Also tagged Google, News Corporation, Paid Content, paywalls, Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian | Comments closed

The Telegraph should offer its 300,000+ subscribers a free Kindle

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Tuesday 3 March 2009

At Silicon Alley Insider, some interesting maths. The site’s Nicholas Carlson estimates that it costs $644m to print and deliver the New York Times every year. (Carlson says that one source estimates the figure to be much higher.) Coincidentally, the Times also has 830,000 readers who have subscribed to the paper for more than two [...]

Posted in Digital | Also tagged Daily Mail, Daily Mail & General Trust, Kindle | Comments closed

The future of newspapers: Metro with knobs on (and a hiring spree at Thomson Reuters)

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 18 February 2009

Interesting post from Ben Spencer on a recent presentation by Ed Roussel, digital editor at Telegraph Media Group. In a session at Sheffield University last week, Roussel outlined what we must presume is the Telegraph’s strategy for “post-recession news media”. That phrase is Spencer’s; and here’s his take on Roussel’s presentation: According to Roussel, newspapers will [...]

Posted in Digital, Economy, Journalism, Social | Also tagged Ben Spencer, Daily Telegraph, Ed Roussel, future of newspapers, outsourcing, recession, Sheffield University | Comments closed

The Independent & DMGT: Anyone for a joint operating agreement?

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Monday 3 November 2008

Big denials this morning from both Independent News & Media and Daily Mail & General Trust. James Robinson is taking a bit of a pounding for his story in The Observer suggesting that DMGT is “considering” buying The Independents. According to Robinson’s sources, the strike price could have been £1, with DMGT “taking on the [...]

Posted in Newspapers | Also tagged Daily Mail & General Trust, Independent News & Media, joint operating agreement, offshoring, shared services, The Independent, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

The discreet charm of non-executive directors: Sharp hires at The Guardian and The Telegraph

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 15 October 2008

What do non-executives get paid for? Actually, the money isn’t great (at least not by the standards of Masters Of Universe). The official version is that non-executives act as neutral voices, mediating between management teams and shareholders. Occasionally, they are called upon to mediate between chairman and chief executives, too. If that sounds a bit [...]

Posted in Digital, Newspapers | Also tagged Accel Partners, Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail & General Trust, emap, Google, Guadian Media Group, Independent News & Media, Judy Gibbons, Lauren Twohill, News Corp, Trinity Mirror, United Business Media | Comments closed

Not only in Kamchatka: What happened when Mr Sabbagh went down to the woods. . .

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Friday 25 July 2008

As this week’s events in Kamchatka reminded us, bears have sharp claws and teeth. The latter bite chunks out of investors frequently. And commentators get bitten, too. The Times has had a torrid time of it in recent weeks. On 16 July, its reporter Robert Lindsay suggested that an analyst had concerns about Trinity Mirror [...]

Posted in Financial, Newspapers | Also tagged The Times, Trinity Mirror | Comments closed

Welcome to The Great Unbundling, Mr Rusbridger

By Peter Kirwan | Published: Wednesday 25 June 2008

Scientists say that falling in love alters our brain chemistry, and therefore the way in which we perceive the world. Presumably, it’s the same with losing. Last week, the Mail Online overtook the Guardian and the Telegraph to become the UK’s most-trafficked national newspaper site. Now, suddenly, the Guardian is suggesting that it’s becoming increasingly [...]

Posted in Digital, Journalism | Also tagged Associated Newspapers, Guardian Media Group, Independent News & Media, Mail Online, MSN, The Guardian, Times Media, Yahoo | Comments closed

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