March 2009
RT @robin1966: cancer hospital lost £6.5M of funds in Icelandic Bank collapse, gov won’t refund. Pls sign petition http://tinyurl.com/cyzjxw
Manchester Evening News free city centre distribution changes next week… http://twitpic.com/2n0eu
Google cuts 200 sales and marketing roles - Brand... →
Google is cutting roughly 200 sales and marketing positions globally after revealing it had over-invested in some areas of its business.
MPs launch inquiry into future of local media -... →
The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee yesterday (26 March), launched an inquiry into the future of local media that will consider issues surrounding the impact of digital, the…
Burnham proposes shifting adspend from outdoor to... →
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has suggested the Government could help the embattled regional newspaper industry by diverting its adspend from outdoor into press, although he ruled out direct…
Talking Politics - Yahoo! News UK →
Everyone’s having a hard time of it in this recession, but newspapers are having a harder time than most.
Jonathan Miller to lead News Corp digital assets -... →
Jonathan Miller, the former chief executive at AOL who was recently linked to a Yahoo! bid, is to head News Corporation’s digital operations, which include websites such as MySpace and IGN.
IPC mounts digital campaign to promote Look... →
IPC Media’s fashion weekly magazine LOOK has tasked digital agency Clusta to produce an online campaign for LOOK aimed at driving traffic to www.look.co.uk.
Trinity to close four Midlands free titles - Media... →
Trinity Mirror is to close four of its free weekly regional titles and move staff to other publications across the group.
Google still hiring despite layoffs - Brand... →
Reuters is reporting that Google is looking to fill about 360 vacant positions after announcing last week that 200 marketing staff would have to go due to “overlapping” and “over-investment”.
NUJ takes out full-page Guardian ad over proposed... →
Regional newspaper journalists in dispute with the Guardian’s parent company over proposed redundancies took out a full-page advert in the paper today urging readers to campaign to save their jobs.
Let us merge or we'll die, say local papers |... →
Local newspaper publishers will submit a report to the Office of Fair Trading on Tuesday calling for a massive shake-up of competition laws that could herald a wave of mergers and acquisitions once…
News | The London Paper to relaunch website next... →
News International-owned title The London Paper is relaunching its site next month after ploughing close to £1m into the project.
Condé Nast trims costs through redundancies and... →
Condé Nast has made a number of staff redundant and is not replacing other departees in a sign that the recession has hit the glossy magazine publisher.
VideoJug decides not to replace Cruickshank -... →
VideoJug, the “how to” website, has decided against replacing outgoing chief executive Nancy Cruickshank, who will join Telegraph Media Group in May.
Andy Burnham: BBC and local papers can work... →
Culture secretary Andy Burnham has added his support to the idea of public-private partnerships between the BBC and local newspapers.
GMG close to appointing new chairman - Brand... →
Guardian Media Group is close to appointing John Peace, the former chief executive of Great Universal Stores, as chairman, according to reports.
Feel like crap this morning. The sound of something nesting in the attic kept me awake most of the night…
If we all got paid in ice cream, we’d look forward to pay freezes…
Finally, the mobile number I’ve had for 10 years is working again after 3 months being out of service. DM me to check you have right number!
Publishers keep faith with online but are they... →
The UK’s major web publishers are predicting average growth in digital revenues of 16% this year, according to the Association of Online Publishers’ 2009 census. Trade bodies are expected to be…
Orange O2 phone num transfer saga continues. O2 transferred it on Friday, but to my bloody USB dongle, not my iPhone! 2 months, 8th attempt.
Hail storm in London…
Having a pint of Fruuli in the Southwark Tavern. Was going to have the afternoon off but ended up working for most of it… Interesting tho.
Daily Star launches online dating site - Media... →
Northern & Shell-owned red-top the Daily Star has become the latest newspaper brand to launch an online dating site today.
UK among worst hit as Carat revises global ad... →
Global advertising expenditure is set to fall 5.8% this year, with drops in every major market except China, according to revised forecasts published by Carat today.
Twitter brings forward plans to charge commercial... →
Twitter is planning to launch enhanced services for commercial users this year according to founder Biz Stone
Celebrity Sell Out: Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer,... →
witter has many celebrity fans, Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross being the stars of the Twitterati, but musician John Mayer appears to have become so obsessed with the micro-blogging service that it has…
Google cuts 200 sales and marketing roles - Brand... →
Google is cutting roughly 200 sales and marketing positions globally after revealing it had over-invested in some areas of its business.
New York Times axes 100 jobs and imposes 5% pay... →
The New York Times Company is cutting 100 jobs from its business operation and cutting salaries 5% for the rest of staff, while an unspecified number of voluntary redundancies are planned at the…
Sun Online most popular national newspaper site... →
The Sun.co.uk reached a record 27.3m unique users in February, overtaking Guardian.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk, Times Online and Mail Online, to become the UK’s most popular national newspaper website,…
Should readers be told about paid-for links on... →
Telegraph Media Group has begun introducing paid-for ‘affiliate’ web links in some of its online stories - allowing it to earn a small amount of commission each time a reader clicks certain links…
Dreamt last night that I won 7 separate lotteries…
links for 2009-03-25 →
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Facebook bows to user pressure and tweaks redesign... →
Facebook has vowed to make a series of adjustments to its home-page design following a deluge of complaints from users that its recent redesign made it more difficult to use.
Editors call on Burnham to support regional papers... →
The Society of Editors has written to culture secretary Andy Burnham detailing how the Government should help the beleaguered local newspaper industry.
Met the MD of theregister.co.uk briefly - on our table at the onrec.com awards. Said he hates Twitter, facebook, linkedin etc…
We’re hiring a Head of Client Services: http://bit.ly/headofclientservices. Got Media sales, good contacts, ppl management? £70k OTE in Manc
links for 2009-03-24 →
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LBi launches customer interaction department -... →
Digital agency LBi has launched a global customer interaction department to meet the demand from brands seeking effective strategies for communicating with consumers through social networks, blogs,…
Thelondonpaper revamps website - Media news -... →
News International-owned free newspaper thelondonpaper is to relaunch its website on 1 April.
ireport the death of... →
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Introducing Cufón, a Font Replacement Solution // ... →
If you’re like me, you probably have been searching for a solid web font replacement technique which avoids replacing text with images or utilizing both Flash AND Javascript. In a nutshell, web font…
Twitter launches third-party advertisements -... →
Twitter has been quietly promoting a new service for business users known as ExecTweets on the company blog and on Twitter mainpages in exchange for revenues.
BBC issues pay warning over strike action | →
The BBC has warned staff who refuse to cross picket lines during two days of strike action next month that they will not be paid.
Gannett enforces second round of unpaid leave for... →
Employees at Gannett, publisher of USA Today, have been asked to take more unpaid leave in a bid to save costs, after an initial week in the first quarter saved the company a reported $20m (£13.6m).
UK Government poised to be biggest advertiser -... →
The government is on track to overtake Procter & Gamble as the UK’s biggest-spending advertiser, after the latter cut its adspend by 10%.
Google chief hits out at 'nuts' idea -... →
Matt Brittin, Google’s new director of UK operations, has criticised industry calls for improvements to online audience measurement to make the web more attractive to advertisers, insisting the…
'Thriving media is key to local economies'... →
Stockport Council’s leader has written to Press Gazette to protest against the town’s journalists moving to Manchester.
Revenue Rebirth for Newspapers? | ReveNews →
The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) just shut down after 150 years, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print operations, and the Philadelphia Inquirer went bankrupt. Countless other printed…