Media - Print

It is no secret that Asia has emerged as the world’s most dynamic media market, where internet, broadband and mobile usage are exploding and the region’s newspapers - the world’s largest - continue to grow alongside digital media. This growth has now been quantified in World Press Trends, Asian Edition, the first regional edition of the annual global World Press Trends survey published by the...

Internet giant Google is planning to roll out a payment platform for newspapers that would allow them to charge for content online. The Google plan, which was revealed by the Nieman Journalism Lab, was elaborated in a document that company sent to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) in response to a request for paid-content proposals that the association sent to several technology companies...

The publisher of La Presse, Canada's second largest French-language newspaper, threatened on Thursday to permanently stop the presses unless its 700 employees agree to deep salary cuts before December, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "We have three months ahead of us, enough time to discuss and sign a negotiated agreement allowing us to cut labor costs," Guy Creview, publisher of the...

Zero Hora of Brazil and Express & Echo of the United Kingdom have been named World Young Reader Newspapers of the Year for two vital kinds of excellence in the annual competition organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishing (WAN-IFRA). The awards are part of WAN-IFRA’s annual World Young Reader Prize competition, which honours innovative newspapers that have devised the...

The Guardian Media Group is reported to be considering options for the future of its Sunday newspaper, the Observer, as part of a strategic company review. The company – parent of Guardian News & Media, which publishes the Observer, Guardian and guardian.co.uk – is said not to have ruled out closing the Sunday title. Some details from the Guardian itself: [ Link] GMG has reportedly floated the...

The Ann Arbor News published its final edition last week, the latest US newspaper to abandon print for an online future, says an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report. "Farewell, Ann Arbor," read a banner headline on last Thursday's edition of the 174-year-old daily, the only newspaper in the town in the northern state of Michigan. The closure of the Ann Arbor News makes the city, which has a...

The Boston Globe’s largest union overwhelmingly approved a package of $10 million in wage and benefit cuts Monday night, ending more than three months of tense bargaining and brinksmanship, the newspaper reported The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 700 editorial, advertising and business office workers, became the last of the Globe's major unions to ratify sizeable financial and...

The newspaper industry in North America will shed some $13 billion in revenue by 2013, Editor & Publisher has reported quoting new research from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The losses are expected to stem mainly from a drain in print advertising revenue. Total newspaper advertising will fall by a cumulative 32.7% during the next three years, according to the latest PriceWaterhouse Global...

Despite the global financial crisis, newspaper circulation grew 1.3 per cent worldwide in 2008, the President of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) said Wednesday in a speech that contradicted “misleading” reports predicting the imminent death of newspapers. “The simple fact is that, as a global industry, our printed audience continues to grow,” said Gavin O’Reilly, WAN President and CEO of...

Presstime, the monthly magazine of the Newspaper Association of America ( http://www.naa.org/), will soon cease to be in print. Presstime, its staff already much reduced, will continue on the association’s website, the New York Times has reported. The NYT report said: [ Link] “No one wanted to close down Presstime,” John F. Sturm, president and chief executive of the association, said in an e-mail...