Broadcaster’s managing director has a horror week marred by mixed messages. Plus Fairfax’s CEO muses on the ‘trade between accuracy and speed’ in his papersIt’s been the worst week for Michelle Guthrie since she started as the ABC’s managing director in May. At Melbourne University’s New News conference last Friday she made a couple of remarks which had to be hosed down at the weekend by her corporate minders. Then on Monday she was at the centre of a last-ditch attempt to reverse a decision by the ABC board to get rid of the award-winning science magazine show Catalyst, which is watched on TV and on digital platforms by 1 million people a week. Axing a popular show which is made in-house and which is central to the ABC charter is not a good look for a new MD.First to her faux pas. Guthrie had accepted an invitation to give the keynote at the centre for advancing journalism’s conference in Melbourne. She announced that Stan Grant had been hired as Indigenous affairs editor and that the ABC would launch a dedicated news service on Facebook Messenger. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Sales of the hundreds of paid-for weekly and monthly titles fell 4.4% compared with previous six months, according to latest healthcheck Continue reading... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Silvertail Books has signed a book of business lessons from British... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Makeup guru Michelle Phan, one of YouTube's most popular publishers with over 6.7 million subscribers, may have the vast influence that can give brands the exposure they crave. But, that hasn't stopped electronic dance music label Ultra from suing her for allegedly using its music without the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ABC has hired Mike Dean as its new vp, programmatic and data-driven sales, The Wall Street Journal reports. Dean joins the Disney-owned network from ad tech firm Videology, where he was vp, media platform sales and solutions. Before Videology, Dean served as director, publisher services at... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google's private programmatic exchanges can now book premium ad space like mastheads for brands. It is working with ABC to promote the new show Rising Star using an exchange that only places ads in prominent positions, ones that are not typically associated with automated buying. "This exchange... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Only five months after the Québec Government announced it would go ahead with its innovative fixed pricing legislation on new titles, the project is now dead in the water. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The decade-long devastation of the print news business, crushed by the sagging economy, the evaporation of classified and display advertising, and a reader shift to digital media, has cost at least 54,200 newsroom jobs in newspapers and magazines a ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It was a circuitous and unexpected road that led Amanda Palmer to become an author. Best known as one-half of the punk duo the Dresden Dolls, Palmer had already expanded her creative world to include songwriter, playwright, and blogger. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an open letter to Google's Eric Schmidt the boss of German publishing firm Axel Springer says it is afraid of the search giant. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC has axed "The Review Show", just two days after announcing a plan to put... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Thompson says New York Times journalism will remain impartial and won't be swayed by commercial considerationsMark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times, has hit out at rival Bloomberg for saying it shouldn't have published investigative news stories criticising China, because... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Owner Richard Desmond agrees to officially audited figures for monthly visitors to dailystar.co.uk and express.co.ukOfficially audited traffic figures for the Daily Star and Daily Express websites have been published for the first time – ranking them bottom in the national newspaper online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC3 is to become online-only to save money. Is this unfair to young viewers and programme-makers?Boyd Hilton, TV and reviews editor of Heat magazineSo the BBC is getting rid of its one channel aimed at young people, its one channel that has continually fostered new comedy talent, the channel... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The pressure on newspaper website editors to stay in the top three can be intenseJanuary, the start of a new year in the digital premier league (as recorded by ABC). And it's the big three still on top: Mail Online, with 60 million monthly users in Britain and Ireland, and 130 million abroad, up... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnston Press is disposing of staff photographers in a swathe of newspapers across England, reports HoldTheFrontPage. Photographers are soon to leave the company's titles in Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. Most will go after accepting voluntary redundancy... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three sites buck annual trend, but Mail, Guardian and Telegraph report month-on-month declines in daily unique browsersMirror Group Digital, Independent.co.uk and Standard.co.uk enjoyed month-on-month traffic gains in December, when the festive holiday usually results in newspaper website user... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michelle Knight will write a book on the 11 years she spent as a captive in the Cleveland home of Ariel Castro. Weinstein books will publish the as yet untitled memoir in spring 2014.Michelle Knight will write a book on the 11 years she spent as a captive in the Cleveland home of Ariel Castro.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael O'Mara will publish the autobiography of soap actress Michelle Collins next April.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There are tons of bad pop–up books out there, content to merely sprong, jut, accordion, or bulge. French paper engineer and children's book author Marion Bataille does a different kind of pop–up. She has released a trilogy of books that explore the design of the Roman alphabet and Arabic... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media will stop printing BRW magazine but offer its content for free online, as the brand transitions into a digital property. Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald
[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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