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Media conglomerate Meredith has achieved an 11 percent hike to $902 million for its fiscal 2021 second-quarter YoY, and a 4 percent hike to $1.595 billion for its first half. That was driven, in large part, by digital ad sales. It has…

Since March 2020, The Tow Center in Chicago has tracked newsroom cutbacks carried out during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 66 outlets have permanently closed their doors, and another 42 have been impacted by mergers and…

The New York Times is working on building a subscription product for its consumer reviews site Wirecutter. Currently, the newspaper earns affiliate revenue when a reader purchases a product reviewed on Wirecutter. Recent reviews have picked…

Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each provide publishers with ad-based content recommendation…

The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of WAN-IFRA, has been awarded to Colombian journalist, Jineth Bedoya Lima. The award, made virtually due to current COVID-19 restrictions, recognises ‘Ms Bedoya Lima’s dedication to…

Due to continued uncertainties and travel constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic, WAN-IFRA has called off the World News Media Congress, which was initially planned for Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2020. Meanwhile, the association has…

When The New York Times was looking to relocate some of its operations out of Hong Kong earlier this year, the U.S. media heavyweight chose Seoul, citing among other reasons the freedom of South Korea’s press. But while the NYT comes…

The Financial Times saw both the biggest Covid-19 sales recovery among the UK’s national newspapers and the biggest year-on-year decline in August, according to the latest ABC figures. Although the newspaper grew its average sales by 9…

In the past year, France’s Le Parisien has doubled both its numbers of digital subscribers and its revenues from digital subscriptions largely through an effort to produce far more ‘premium’ articles that are for subscribers only. Le…

The New York Times chief Meredith Kopit Levien has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in ten years’ time. Meredith, who took over from Mark Thompson as CEO of the NYT this month, believes that…

Good news is that that independent South Australian newspaper The Border Watch is coming back after closing last month. A source announces that it will resume printing in October, with former editor Brett Kennedy back in the chair as…

After participating in Facebook’s Video Accelerator programme, news publishers in APAC are seeing tangible business results. Those attending Facebook’s 2019 Video Accelerator have reported an 82 percent increase in overall metrics…

Leading web offset press manufacturer manroland Goss Americas, a subsidiary of manroland Goss web systems GmbH, has relocated its bindery and post-press equipment service organisation in Effingham, Illinois to its Americas headquarters…

Over the last two years, The Economist has narrowed its focus on what it publishes to LinkedIn. It has been reaping the benefits by turning those users into subscribers. After switching gears on its content strategy — starting narrow to…

As the future of print is uncertain, finding new opportunities in outside printing will be a key part of survival for many of our newspaper operations. Many continue to struggle through the financial challenges brought on by COVID-19. Prior…

By bringing together a cross-functional team and empowering them to make quick decisions, German publishing group Funke Mediengruppe has generated a 45 percent uplift in paid subscriptions in three months and grew newsletter subscriptions…

When school year started during the coronavirus pandemic in the US, working parents are scrambling to juggle their own remote work and their children’s schooling plans on top of general family care. More and more companies are looking to…

The Providence Journal, Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) and a handful of other newspapers owned by Gannett are offering free multimedia advertising packages to aid local businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Customer Assistance…

With teenagers stuck at home thanks to the COVID-19, The New York Times offered access to its journalism — with the hope of converting some into regular readers and, eventually, subscribers. America’s high school students are mostly sitting…

Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter saw dramatic growth in traffic and digital subscriptions amid the COVID-19 crisis. The newspaper conducted webinar in which Martin Jönsson, Head of Editorial Development at Dagens Nyheter, detailed how the…