Media
Those of you who've read this blog for a while might remember the main part of this headline from last year. This weekend, financial daily Dagen's Naeringsliv (DN) ran a story on how the trend I described then, was pretty much repeated for the first half
Acquisitions
Even former Mirror boss David Montgomery, who has a reputation as a ferocious cost-cutter, admits his new pan-European newspaper group Mecom cannot cost-cut its way out of a recession. Shares in the company tumbled on the London Stock Exchange last week after the newspaper group failed to impress the market
Acquisitions
Mecom-boss David Montgomery has denied a concrete offer for Edda Media has been put forward, and said the British company's board has no intention of selling the Norwegian newspaper group. The former Mirror-boss turned European media mogul was visiting his newspapers in north-west Norway at the start of
Media
What if your news site could create a place online where it was so attractive to participate in the discussion that politicians, lobby groups and your average Joes would all happily post under their full names to make their voices heard, to argue their case in a civilised manner: thereby
Media
Back to what is now the rather old question of whether it just "the fear factor", or if it is the market’s loss of faith in the media's business model that’s to blame for the recent hammering the industry’s received on the worlds
Media
Of course, financially it is a bad idea, as most of them fail, but, despite the current sense of doom on the stock markets, it appears now is the best time in years to start a magazine. Just this morning I was reading about the collapse of Spain’s biggest
Media
Well, perhaps not. Despite these ever so eloquent musings of Stephen Glover last Monday, it is looking increasingly gloomy, at least in the short-term, for an industry that relies so heavily on the health of the advertisment sector (which is a bit like becoming financially dependent on someone with a
Media
Why are media shares in such a mess at the moment? The short answer, of course, is that it’s a bear market out there, but at least one analyst thinks the pain is only temporary. Media shares have gone from heaven to hell in the last twelve months, and
Media
This morning the Mecom share hit a record low, as threats of industrial action looms in Holland and protests have reached a new creative peak in Germany. As readers have pointed out to me, I did neglect blogging about recent Mecom developments last week, but matters reached a boiling point
Media
Staff protests at Mecom-owned Berliner Zeitung have reached a new creative peak. Journalists have long been unhappy with Mecom's regime, in particular recent job cuts and Josef Depenbrocks dual role as editor-in-chief and managing editor of the title. Yesterday they went to the unusual step of placing this
Blogging
If you only read one blog post today, make it Adam's musings on why media gets community wrong, I think he's spot on here: ...most media people don't realise that blogging is a community strategy. They think of it as a publishing process and,
Blogging
I was struck by this sentiment from a British newspaper executive that Adrian reported under Chatham Rules a while back: This person had "no interest in UK blog content... didn’t rate UK blogosphere - UK newspapers have already occupied that opinion territory and run the best blogs."