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Or why the economic woes of "the Nordic hedge fun masquerading as a country" may not have ended Baugur's newspaper adventure. A week ago, the executives of Nyhedsavisen, the Danish freesheet launched by Baugur-controlled Dagsbrun in 2006, rushed to denounce headlines that the Icelandic group had
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Now, here's an interesting contrarian take on what's bringing down Schibsted's share price. To say that these are not the jolliest of times for media shares would be an understatement. Schibsted, the Norwegian based media group, much praised internationally for its successful online transition,
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Is it a marriage made in heaven or hell? A marriage of love, convenience or desperation? Last week news broke that Morten Lund, an early stage investor in Skype, had acquired a 51 per cent stake in Nyhedsavisen, the previously Icelandic-owned Danish freesheet. Ten pence to foot the bill for
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Philip Anschutz's newspaper company is not bidding for Metro's US freesheets, despite published reports saying otherwise, an Anschutz's spokesman told Denver Business Journal. However, Metro International's CEO Per Mikael Jensen recently told me the company currently is undergoing a strategic review where
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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
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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
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Last week, to the day, marked the one year anniversary for Nyhedsavisen, the Icelandic-owned freesheet that triggered the once so crowded Danish freehsheet war. Modelled on the highly successful Frettabladid, it was always the explicit ambition of the paper's backers to take on Denmark's paid-for titles
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Nyhedsavisen, the Icelandic-owned Danish freesheet, has just hired two political bloggers, Jarl Cordua and David Troels Garby to blog at avisen.dk (via Journalisten.dk) "David and Jarl can offer inside knowledge that neither the average citizen nor journalist can access. They have access to all the latest political
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According to Handelsblatt (in German) Deutsche Post is in talks with Norwegian media group Schibsted about launching a national German freesheet (via E24.no). It's not a secret that Deutsche Post is considering to move into the freesheet market to beef up its revenue streams ahead of the
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Lacklustre results from Mecom's Danish arm was to be expected, but the latest proposed freehsheet merger certainly caught me by surprise. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see Mecom shares tumble almost 5pc in yesterday's trading, after the company announced its interim results
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I found this picture from Piet Bakker's Newspaper Innovation blog (via Nigel Barlow) quite compelling. Free newspapers are currently published in 50 countries, totalling 40 million copies daily, read by at least 70 million people. Piet looks at worldwide trends for 2007 here, and for Europe here. However,
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For Danish freesheet 24timer, the key to winning the freesheet war is more local content and less door-to-door distribution. Or so it seems. 24timer has just masterminded yet another 'merger' with a local freesheet, this time Fyns Stiftstidende's Xtra, securing another local version of its national