Global Watch

McClatchy Co’s bid to buy Tribune Publishing, owner of Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Daily News, has reportedly broken down. Or at least the chance to talk exclusively has expired. According to a source, Tribune Publishing is now…

INMA (International News Media Association) has set the schedule of its World Congress of News Media in New York from May 13-17, 2019. The congress will have diverse topics such as Digital Platform Initiative in which a panel will focus on…

First Draft, an organisation dedicated to supporting journalists, academics and technologists, working to address challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital age, has opened offices in London and New York to combat information…

The New York Times has rolled out its first brand marketing campaign for the food vertical, NYT Cooking. The campaign started on January 22 and would run four weeks. It features 15-second and 30-second TV spots and will run across digital,…

WAN-IFRA’s Women In News (WIN) MENA launched its 10-day Media Management Training, in partnership with AUC GAPP Executive Education for 28 women media leaders from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, kicking off activities for WIN MENA…

The Economist is now giving The New York Times a run for its money with the introduction of a new daily news podcast. However, unlike the immensely successful ‘The Daily’, The Economist’s podcast called ‘The Intelligence’ will focus on…

British newspaper houses, amid the political chaos of Brexit filling their column inches, are now having to ensure the country’s drive to leave the European Union doesn’t leave them without enough paper and ink. Publishers and paper…

Manchester Evening News has all geared up to introduce a Sunday edition next month to ‘reflect a city that never takes a day off’. The daily will go seven days a week for the first time with the first Sunday edition to be published on…

Globally, only 24 percent of people heard, seen or read about in newspaper, television, and radio news are women and only 19 percent of experts sourced in news stories are women (according to the Global Media Monitoring Project, 2015…

Digital media company Vox Media to acquire open-source publishing platform The Coral Project, which is housed within the Mozilla Foundation. The deal between the two digital media players underscores Vox Media’s push to sell software as a…

In its latest Magazine Media 360° Brand Audience Report, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media announced growth among its 110 magazines across all three platforms — web, mobile and video — in 2018, compared to the prior year. Hearst was…

The i’s weekend edition, which is a British newspaper owned and published by Johnston Press, will put up its cover price to £1 this week as its editor blamed the 20p hike on rising newsprint costs amid the ‘challenging nature of the news…

Upgrades and retrofits from manroland GOSS web systems increase production efficiency, quality and the availability of the press. The newspaper printer News Corp Australia also knows about it. At their printing site in Yandina, they have…

According to the latest ABC figures, Evening Standard and Metro were two newspapers in the UK which gained growth in circulation in August. Evening Standard, edited by former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, saw the biggest…

Lineup, a complete media solution company dealing in print and electronic media ads for newspapers, magazines and online portals, cable ads, is presenting its latest features and cutting-edge functionalities of Adpoint media sales solutions…

As new data show The Sun remains the most read newsbrand in the UK and The Guardian and Observer the most trusted national newspapers by their readers. The Sun, the UK’s best-selling newspaper, has the highest “total brand reach” at 31.4m…

Retrofit or new investment—these were the two alternatives customers had in the past with aging, obsolete press controls. With the extended service contract model ‘EAE Care Protection’, EAE GmbH now offers a further option. OM Druck GmbH…

With a joint reputation as leaders in web-fed printing, the recently combined manroland GOSS web systems, the merged company of manroland web systems and GOSS International, will be exhibiting at Print 2018, organising in Chicago from…

With a wealth of data on users’ behaviours and habits at their fingertips, news publishers may well be tempted to allow all decisions to be dictated by numbers. At Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet, however, the final calls will always lie with…

UK regional newspaper The Chronicle has been revived in the form of a special printed edition a little over a year after it ceased publication. The Oldham Evening Chronicle has returned as a print publication for the first time since August…