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Radio groups need to clear fog over DAB
Posted in Media, Marketing, Digital, Latest reporters' blogs, Russell Parsons October 1st, 2008 by Russell Parsons
You could never say that DAB, or to give its less snappy full title Digital Audio Broadcasting, has been given a full chorus of unequivocal support from the commercial radio industry this year.
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(0)Magazines under attack
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs August 7th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
Who’d want to be a magazine publisher right now? With just a week to go before the industry’s biannual circulation report, which is expected to be bloody and already has commentators sharpening their talons, and the nation’s weeklies and monthlies are already fighting on other fronts.
Tags Magazines, Asda, Retail Newsagent, Print, Media Guardian, PPA, ABCs
Every newspaper wins online
Posted in Media, Digital, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs May 29th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
Lies, damn lies and statistics have swamped the media industry more than usual this month, as the battle for online newspaper audiences hots up.
Tags Digital, The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Newspaper
Will the Guardian still be here in 20 years?
Posted in Media, Digital, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs May 12th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
Irascible media commentator Roy Greenslade has been creating waves on the other side of the world this month, scaring Australia’s newspaper men silly with his gloves-off vision of media convergence and the future of the printed word, or rather the lack of it.
Tags Guardian, Observer, Print, national newspapers
Take that Gogarty
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs February 18th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
Did you hear about that b*stard Max Gogarty? He’s not only bagged himself a trip around India but also got The Grauniad to folk out for it; the paper (whoops, best make that media brand) has agreed to chronicle his adventures as a blog. What a complete and utter low life, and there’s more.
Tags Max Gogarty, Guardian, blogging, nepotism, media
Emap RIP: 1947 - 2008
Posted in Media, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs January 29th, 2008 by Arif Durrani
In years to come, 2008 will be remembered in the media business as the final resting place of the once mighty powerhouse, Emap plc.
Tags Emap, Print, Magazines, Media, Guardian Media Group
New-look Guardian site fails to connect
Posted in Media, Digital, Arif Durrani, Latest reporters' blogs July 26th, 2007 by Arif Durrani
The new-look Guardian website has seen its unique users drop 10 per cent following its relaunch, fuelling speculation that its cleaner, wider design has failed to hit the spot for its online community.
Today’s ABCe figures show that after initially gaining 900,000 curious users during May, numbers for Guardian Unlimited in June were 600,000 less than …
Tags Print, Newspapers, Guardian, Website, Online
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