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Hearst titles show soaring cross-platform growth

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…

Weekend edition of ‘i’ blames newsprint price hike

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…

Two UK newspapers recorded growth in August

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…

New commitment of manroland GOSS web systems at Print 2018

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…

Newsroom data insights of a leading Danish tabloid

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…

TIME magazine to be acquired at $190 million

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff will buy Time Magazine for $190 million. The sale comes just eight months after Meredith Corp., which publishes such titles as People, Better Homes and Gardens, and Entertainment…

FIPP joins organisers for IFRA & DCX Expo in Berlin

IFRA & DCX exhibitions agree on a co-operation with the network for global magazine media, FIPP, including a participation in the congress programme in October in Berlin. FIPP, the network for global media, will join forces with IFRA…

WE-Druck invests in first KBA newspaper press

WE-Druck, a part of NWZ-Media Group and operates as an independent newspaper printing house, based in Oldenburg in Germany, has opted for a highly automated newspaper press from Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) for the first time with the…

How local newsrooms are adapting to a digital environment?

The latest report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism examines how local news organisations in Europe are adapting to an increasingly digital, mobile, and platform-dominated environment. The report titled The Digital…

Financial Times makes road to one million subscribers

This is all about looking at users from a business point of view, and what Financial Times (FT.com) wants them to be, as the newspaper knows people pay for habits. So they want to focus on habits. Habits are the best way to increase…

Top German court rules ad blocking legal

Rejecting Axel Springer’s claim ad blocking, Germany‘s highest civil court has ruled that the online ad blocker AdBlock Plus does not violate any competition law. Applications that filter out and hide website advertisements may remain…