Johnston Press, which also owns the Yorkshire Post, has debts of £220m and failed to find a buyerJohnston Press, the owner of the i, the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post, has gone into administration after being brought to its knees by debts of more than £200m.The publicly-listed newspaper publisher, which put itself up for sale last month in a last-ditch effort to save the business from going under, has gone into administration admitting that its shares are now worthless. Related: Daily Mail owners reportedly interested in buying i newspaper Related: Johnston Press falls prey to capitalism and greed | Roy Greenslade Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Suzy Lucas is to be prize administrator for the newly established Literature Prize.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HONOLULU/LIHUE – Oahu Publications, Inc. (OPI) and Kauai Publishing Co. announced today that OPI has purchased The Garden Island newspaper from Lee Enterprises, of Davenport, Iowa. The expected closing date is February 11, 2013. Financial ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HMV administrator Deloitte has said there have been "very positive" expressions of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HMV has gone into administration, putting a potential 4,350 jobs at risk, following what is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Arcadia Books has been rescued from administration by a media facilitator called MediaFund, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times has partnered with Byliner and Vook to publish original ebooks between 10,000 and 20,000 words and designed to be read in one sitting. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Europeans have been trying for years to force Google to prop up the continent’s’ struggling news publishers. A new deal in Belgium suggests they have finally succeeded. In a blog post on Wednesday, Google said it has resolved a ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Inc. (GOOG) reached a deal with Belgian newspaper publishers, resolving a six-year copyright battle that had blocked the owner of the world’s most-used search engine from publishing links to local newspapers. “We tur ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily will publish its final issue this month after News Corporation bigwigs decided to pull the plug on the original iPad-only newspaper, proving it’s not easy to sell subscriptions to enhanced print-style media to a digital audience. ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation's The Daily was to have been a vanguard of the future, based on the past -- a tablet-focused newspaper that could get us back to paying subscriptions for our regular news fix. Not enough of us were as enthralled with the retro-future concept, however. While CEO Rupert Murdoch... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google is taking on the German government with a new "Defend Your Net" campaign that aims to fight attempts there to pass a law that would allow German newspaper publishers to charge fees to Google for providing links to newspaper stories. ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publishers struggle to successfully monetize their online content, and they are not getting any help from journalism schools, despite the fact that these are the very institutions preparing young people to enter the shrinking field and the ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The owners of the Big Green Bookshop are to open a second premises in Brookmans Park,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian publisher APN is putting its South Island newspapers on the block including The Star in Christchurch and the Oamaru Mail. It is also intending to sell the Capital Community Newspaper group in Wellington but is keeping the weekly free Kap ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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El País, which had avoided the losses that have hit the newspaper industry worldwide as it struggles with the transition to digital publishing, announced it would dismiss one-third of its staff. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More Americans are discovering what I did, after buying the original iPad more than two years ago: Reading ebooks, magazines and newspapers on a tablet is an immersive experience and often much more satisfying than print. Today, comScore says that in August, two out of every five US tablet... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since this spring, a German publisher has been tackling a monster of a new challenge. "He lives in newspapers in the printing plant," explains Eva Fauth, one of his creators. "He sleeps in newspapers, and he eats all the newspapers becaus ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library has grown considerably since launching in the US, and it looks like the company's finally decided it was time to let some other countries in on the service as well. It announced today that Amazon Prime members in the UK, Germany and France would all have... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian newspaper publisher Christoph Dichand apologized after Kronen Zeitung was caught using a faked dramatic photograph of a family fleeing Syria's civil war-torn city Aleppo. The picture - published in the country& ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publisher of the Daily Press has been elected as president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Digby A. Solomon - president, publisher and CEO of the Daily Press Media Group since 2007 - was chosen to lead the industry association, ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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