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Gannett to acquire Journal Media Group for $12 a share
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) (“Gannett”) and Journal Media Group, Inc. (NYSE: JMG) (“JMG”) have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Gannett will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Journal [...]
NMA: Europe’s AVMS Directive ‘must not impede press sector’
The News Media Association has stressed that any EU revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive must not lead to new controls over press online content and newspaper websites. The AVMSD harmonised the audiovisual rules of the Member States. [...]
Record breaking tablet reads for The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times tablet edition attracted a record 102,800 readers on Sunday (4 October) with the average reader spending 60 minutes and 49 seconds with us on their tablets. Sian Griffiths’ Young Minds campaign story about the mental [...]
What’s Auntie up to now?
Gary Cullum believes that we deserve best practise and best value from our licence fee-funded BBC SO the BBC wants to compete with regional and local newspapers’ online services across the UK. Lord Hall, the former Tony Hall, [...]
Sir Ray Tindle: Local papers have a long future
Speaking at a lunch event attended by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and The Countess of Wessex today (Thursday), Sir Ray pointed to Sir Martin Sorrell’s recent comments about the high levels of engagement with printed newspapers as evidence that [...]
UK recovered paper market revives after calm summer
The British recovered paper market was quiet and stable in the third week of September. Arisings as a rule remained fairly low overall, although some signs suggest collection volumes could now start to rebound, reports EUWID [...]
News Corp to acquire social video ad platform Unruly
News Corp announced today that it has agreed to acquire Unruly Holdings Limited, a leading global ad platform that is revolutionising digital and social video advertising for clients around the world. “Unruly is a feisty [...]
Local press merger talks
Media analysts have focused on the prospect of further mergers and acquisitions in the still highly fragmented regional and local newspaper market, as Trinity Mirror confirmed this week it was in talks to buy the shares inLocal World which [...]
Guardian News & Media restructures commercial operations
Guardian News & Media (GNM) has today announced a major reorganisation of its commercial operations, with the creation of three new business units: one focusing on its relationships with readers; one on agencies and clients; [...]
Newsquest launches a new daily newspaper for Droitwich
Newsquest Media Group, one of the UK’s leading regional media groups, has launched the Droitwich News in Worcestershire. It will be an edition of the Worcester News covering the famous spa town of Droitwich and will consist of eight [...]
Trinity Mirror regionals launch Connected Newsroom
Trinity Mirror has announced the launch of the Conncted Newsroom, next stage of the digital-first regional media strategy. The Connected Newsroom builds on the successful Newsroom 3.1 strategy which was first introduced in the North East in April [...]
BBC: Lord Black calls for ‘genuine partnership’ with commercial sector
Lord Black of Brentwood, chairman of the News Media Association’s legal, policy and regulatory affairs committee, has called for “tighter controls” on the BBC’s online news services to prevent it from crowding out commercial rivals through an [...]
