Cutting jobs and resources is US publishing giant Gannett’s only tactic with its UK titles. Contrast that with Buzzfeed …Richard Walker, the Sunday Herald editor in Glasgow, and his Newsquest colleague Tony Carlin, editor of the Evening Times there, have both opted to take voluntary redundancy. It’s a shame and a sad loss (though Nicola Sturgeon, whether she remembers Walker’s support at referendum time and his vision in founding the pro-SNP National daily, is uncharacteristically cautious when she sings a lament). What’s the problem? Newsquest – head office in High Wycombe, Bucks – is a subsidiary of Gannett, America’s biggest newspaper chain which, a few weeks ago, chopped itself in two. Here’s the TV half, booming away, and here’s the newspaper rump.How do you make a profit there? Easy. By buying up competitors such as Romanes Group, which has 20-odd titles in central Scotland, then hammering back on already hammered costs. Bang go another 20 editorial jobs (part, perhaps, of the $67m in “reduced operating costs” that Gannett chief cited as part of “incremental efficiency in our base business”). Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
For your listening pleasure, books by John le Carré, Marion Winik and Lynne Truss Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-17 17:01:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#great narrator
#listening pleasure
America’s Newspapers—the association formed from the merger of the Inland Press Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association—was ceremonially launched Oct. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-10-07 15:10:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishers association
Founded in 1999, Shutterfly has been in the online photo printing business the longest among all its DIY photo book competitors. It’s very popular, with millions of customers ordering photo books, prints, cards, and other photo products every year.When it comes to photo books, Shutterfly offers... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2018-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#photo books
As the editor of the Guardian through a period of tumultuous industry change, Alan Rusbridger says that the news sector needs to be fixed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#news sector
Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson has created a “treasure trove” of rare, first edition and antiquarian books from the archives of his emporium store in Somerset. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#rare books
#charles darwin
#treasure trove
#antiquarian books
More than 30 years ago Annika Pergament drove up the coast, starting in Florida, in search of her first journalism job after graduate school—her trunk filled with tapes of herself as a news anchor. She landed a gig in television news just several hundred miles later."I hit every news station on... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2024-04-23 20:44:42 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lower manhattan
#television series
#gossip girl
#past january
#time warner
A quarter century of a Gen X classic, a new children's literature museum opens, and yes everyone is trying to get you to play their crossword. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-04-01 20:48:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#quarter century
#children's literature
Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-03-12 09:00:38 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book review
#great expectations
#debut novel
The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, says it will stop publishing a print edition this month, the latest blow to the country’s dwindling independent... Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-03-01 11:58:31 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#stop publishing
#print edition
The debut novel from Leo Vardiashvili, 'Hard by a Great Forest,' has its commercial trappings but ultimately lands with lyrical and heartbreaking resonance. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-01-31 18:43:16 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#debut novel
An Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were embezzled will relaunch its print edition next month Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2024-01-28 01:58:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#print edition
McIlveen was previously editor-in-chief of news.com.au and founding editor of Daily Mail Australia. He takes on Tory Maguire’s former role at the Age and SMHFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFormer News... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-01-22 04:15:05 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#free morning
#founding editor
#latest updatesget
#free app
#guardian australia
#news corp
Mid-century encyclopaedias claimed the power to decide what counted as knowledge and what didn’t – much as online publishing platforms and social media companies do today. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2024-01-09 17:02:30 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#encyclopedia britannica
#online publishing
British influencer posted a weekly video for 10 years, about everything from pegasus crossings to the National GridTen years ago, Tom Scott held up his phone camera and recorded a 90-second video about traffic lights on bridleways. In Britain, we have pelican crossings, toucan crossings and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-01-05 12:00:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#phone camera
#puffin
Berrow’s Worcester Journal is one of several papers owned by the UK’s second biggest regional news publisher to hire ‘AI-assisted’ reporters On 7 October 1779 a letter appeared in Berrow’s Worcester Journal. “To the printer,” wrote a disgruntled reader. “I take the liberty of informing you and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-12-28 14:03:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#oldest newspapers
#greatly exaggerated
#anonymous tip
#artificial intelligence
#news publisher
As you probably know, Literary Hub is produced by a small staff; most of us are writers, and/or moonlight as editors on other projects. This year, four of our number—that would be 36% percent of full time Literary Hub staffers, not too shabby—published books, which is certainly worthy of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-12-11 17:52:31 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#literary hub
#small staff
Michelle Obama will perform the digital audiobook edition of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, coming October 31! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-10-25 11:45:24 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#michelle obama
#wild things
#audiobook
With debts of £1bn, this isn’t some ordinary financial asset. The desire to own the papers says more about power than profitSo much has changed in the generation since the Telegraph newspapers and the Spectator magazine were last put up for sale in 2004, including how much money they make. Yet... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-10-19 11:00:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#spectator magazine
#potential buyers
#audacious plan
#modern britain
#jane martinson
#guardian columnist
Ever wonder how a dictionary, a NASA telescope, or a handcrafted wooden globe gets made? These new books will tell you. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron joins the L.A. Times Book Club Oct. 11 to discuss "Collision of Power," his book about Trump, Bezos and the future of journalism. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-10-02 13:00:31 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#times book