April ABCs: Right royal boost for six dailies
The Daily Mail and the Daily Express were, as you would probably expect, the biggest beneficiaries of the Royal Wedding in the UK newspaper market last month. Out of step with trends over the past few...
View ArticleApril ABCs: Express is the big winner on Sundays
The Sunday Express posted a 12.84 per cent month-on-month upturn in its circulation along with a 4.76 per cent gain on the same period in 2010. The Sunday Telegraph was also up on March, by 5.73 per...
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Times paywall hits over 100,000
The number of people willing to pay to read the Times and Sunday Times newspapers online has surpassed 100,000, according to owner News International. The announcement that 101,036 subscribers have...
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Leveson: Hislop says press laws just need enforcing
No statutory regulation needed, insists Hislop Private Eye editor Ian Hislop yesterday told the Leveson inquiry that no new laws are needed to ensure good media practice, insisting that current ones...
View ArticleTimes trims the fat to cut the losses
The Times and the Sunday Times have cut their losses by almost 75 per cent in a year. Parent company Times Newspapers Limited reported that the two titles made a loss of £11.6 million in the year up to...
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Jonathan Dimbleby attacks BBC ‘witch-hunt’
Radio 4 presenter Jonathan Dimbleby has accused “hyenas in the media” of using the Jimmy Savile scandal to launch “out of proportion” attacks on the BBC. The BBC has set up two inquiries following...
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Times editor James Harding resigns
James Harding is stepping down as editor of the Times at the end of the month after reportedly telling staff that it had been “made clear to me” that News Corporation wanted to replace him. The BBC’s...
View ArticleEx-Times ed James Harding named BBC News chief
Former Times editor James Harding has been appointed as the BBC’s director of news and current affairs. Harding – who resigned unexpectedly from the Times in December – starts the role in August on...
View ArticleThe Times to cut 20 editorial jobs
Acting Times editor John Witherow has announced plans to cut 20 editorial jobs, warning that loss-making paper’s “era of being subsidised” by News Corporation “is coming to an end”. With the parent...
View ArticleTimes and Sunday Times to remain separate
A merger between the two Times newspapers has been ruled out nine months after the possibility was first mooted. The period of uncertainty followed James Harding’s removal as Times editor and an...
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