Comment Is Free: Meyer wrong to ‘pour scorn’ on Mosley, says lawyer
Dominic Crossley, whose firm represented Max Mosley in his case against News of the World, has responded to comments made by Sir Christopher Meyer, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), to...
View ArticleUK Newspaper alliance calls for merger process to be modernised
Seven of the UK’s largest media publishers have produced a report urging the Office of Fair Trading to improve the process for newspaper mergers. The publishers, known as the Local Media Alliance...
View ArticleBBC Two Daily Politics – Greenslade and Meyer on regulation
In the latest public debate surrounding regulation of the UK press, Sir Christopher Meyer, former chairman of the UK Press Complaints Commission (PCC), today argued that the current self-regulatory...
View ArticleDan Mason: The ‘pathetic tirade’ over council newspapers
An alternative perspective on the council publication debate from Dan Mason, a former managing editor for 12 London weeklies. He is fed up with the ‘pathetic tirade’ over local council publications,...
View ArticleFIPP 09: Charging for content or e-commerce – how will mags make money?
“I insist that we are going to have to end up charging for our content wherever we can,” said Roberto Civita, CEO and chairman of Brazilian magazine publisher Abril, today. “The more segmented the more...
View ArticleFT.com: Murdoch considers charging for online news, developing e-reader
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch is now convinced that ‘it is possible to charge for content’ online given the success of paid-for business news on the Wall Street Journal, he said last night. Any pay...
View ArticleFT.com: WSJ to introduce micropayments
The Wall Street Journal is planning to bring in a micropayment system for individual articles and premium subscriptions on its website, according to Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief. The pricing...
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Dorset Echo reporter Miriam Phillips scoops young journalist award
Photo: (left to right) Neil Glass (Judges Award), Melanie Vass (Reporter of the Year), Martyn Benn (chairman of the judges), Miriam Phillips (Young Journalist of the Year) and Richard Crease...
View ArticleBBC NEWS: Consumer Council paid for NI magazine article
Publically funded body, the Consumer Council, paid £1,730 for an article on its outgoing chief executive, Eleanor Gill, to appear in Northern Ireland’s Agenda magazine, the BBC reports – raising...
View ArticleNick Davies told Commons committee in April that PCC phone hacking inquiry...
You may recall that back in April Nick Davies gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee, for its review into press standards, privacy and libel. In the course of...
View ArticleWho will the PCC question at NOTW if it re-opens investigation into phone...
Will the PCC question News of the World’s Stuart Kuttner, who yesterday stepped down as the paper’s managing director, if it re-opens the investigation into phone hacking? [Update 10.07.09: News...
View ArticleFT.com: ‘There will be a transition to people paying for the internet,’ says...
A couple of things extremely pertinent to the paid content debate in a ‘view from the top’ interview on FT.com. It’s with Liberty Media chairman, John Malone, described by the FT’s Richard Milne as...
View ArticleArchant announces 61.1% drop in profits
The Norwich-based publisher Archant has announced a 61.1 per cent fall in operating profits for the year up to June 2009, despite a rise in digital revenues. Archant, which runs a range of daily and...
View ArticleAcademics threaten Observer boycott: the letters in full
As reported on the main site, a number of high profile figures in business and academia have already, or are threatening to, cancel their subscriptions to the Observer, after the paper – the threatened...
View ArticleBBC faces attack from both sides
“At a time when the government’s Digital Britain report has argued that the licence fee should be ‘top-sliced’ and shared with the BBC’s competitors, the corporation finds itself unusually short of...
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