Acquisitions
Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding (SWMH) has secured an additional 62,5 per cent stake in Süddeutscher Verlag, the Stuttgart group that publishes Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest daily broadsheet. The group, which is Germany's third largest publisher of daily newspapers, already controls 18,73 per cent of the
Pictures
Food and Drink
Vampus (in Norwegian) wants one of these for Christmas, me too: http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/22YzcaNBQ6h6Fp2mA USB Wine, telechargez vos vins en direct des domaines ! Uploaded by zs2creative
Freesheets
This spring Scandinavian media reported that Schibsted was wooing Metro International. Today, Dagens Media tells us "several sources state that Schibsted plans to buy all, or part of, Metro International." According to the anonymous sources, Metro Stockholm is the prime, or initial, acquisition target. Acquiring Metro Stockholm would
Marketing and PR
Ryanair has launched a calendar with a number of its perky stewardesses posing in bikinis, and, towards the back, a somewhat less flattering picture of a stewardess supposed to represent its main competitor, Air Lingus. Answering the flurry of complaints from the usual suspects, Wilhelm Hamilton, Ryanair's head
Freesheets
Bonnier has decided to pull the plug for the Göteborg edition of its freesheet, City, just as the Swedes take off for the Christmas holiday on Friday 21 December. The free daily has a circulation of 44,000 and was launched when the freesheet craze hit Sweden last autumn. Lars
Media
It can be challenging to be both a blogger and a journalist. Knowing all that is possible online in terms of interaction, community and distribution, not to mention the speed with which the online debate moves, the chasm between the two different worlds can sometimes seem impossibly wide. As a
Pictures
What on earth am I doing tailing Al Gore and Rajendra K. Pachauri, hmm.... not one of my days. Or maybe I should just have headlined this picture of mine 'caption competition'? Update 21/12: the answer is that, of course, I wasn't tailing these guys
Media
He was a 'guarantor of editorial freedom, of publicistic principles', 'a life-long supporter of independent journalism', 'a genuine media man with a great love of newspapers, 'a towering figure in international media industry'. If I was to pick the most intriguing media story
Blogging
Social media is something you have to engage with yourself to fully understand. I've previously voiced my fears about how many companies seem to believe they can outsource that whole 'Web 2.0 thing', leave it to third party providers, though just where I made that
Journalism
I had no idea. It was only when a copy of Ethical Space, an academic journal I write for, arrived in my mailbox this week, I learned that Claude-Jean Bertrand, whom I had the pleasure of meeting through Institute for Communication Ethics (ICE), had passed away late September. Obviously, I
From Henrik Torstenssons Weblog: 'Facebook's Beacon program, where Facebook's partner sites automatically report your activity on their sites to your Facebook account, doesn't pass my smell test. What Facebook has built in Beacon is spyware. If Facebook doesn't redesign Beacon, making