Robert Andrews
Dec 14, 2011 3:53 AM
It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfectly with ye olde analogue print magazines’ best qualities.
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Robert Andrews
Feb 4, 2011 6:10 AM
Fair to say, due to a combination of system complexity and ongoing iOS-mania, publishers have been slow to embrace Android.
But here is a demo of a forthcoming The Economist app for upcoming Android tablets…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 12, 2010 4:44 AM
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s Kings Place HQ. In this video, Andy hears from The Economist executive editor Daniel Franklin that the “book-like” experience of e-readers and iPads can reboot considered,…
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Patrick Smith
Jan 14, 2009 10:39 AM
Economist Group is to make 13 jobs redundant—two in commercial services and two editorial staff on its paid-for analysis service Economist Intelligence Unit—as part of a restructuring drive in the UK. The group’s UK MD Nigel Ludlow tells Guardian.co.uk the cuts are necessary to meet advertising clients’ demand for cross-media…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 13, 2008 9:17 AM
Economist Group’s £100,000 project to think up a social web platform may have flatlined last year - but the publisher now has another long tail to pin on the 10-month affair… a book chronicling the experience. Codenamed Red Stripe (yes, like the Jamaican beer), the project charged six Economist folks,…
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