Robert Andrews
May 7, 2008 10:57 AM
—Trinity Mirror: The Gazette Live site, which Trinity Mirror’s (LSE: TNI) Teesside Evening Gazette launched two years ago with 20 hyperlocal sites, now has 200,000 unique users and 2.5 million monthly page impressions, said editor Darren Thwaites at the PPA’s Magazines 2008 conference in London. Here is a clip from…
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Robert Andrews
May 7, 2008 10:50 AM
Comment of the day, at the end of the Periodical Publishers Association’s Magazines 2008 conference, must go to Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) CEO Stevie Spring, in a panel of 10 magazine bosses: “In a world where any Tom, Dick or Harry - and one w***er that I was married to…
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Robert Andrews
May 7, 2008 4:18 AM
During his appearance on stage at the Periodical Publishers Association’s Magazines 2008 conference, Channel 4 announced (see Guardian) it had hired BBC Worldwide digital ventures director Dan Sheaf to work on interactive projects, reporting to both radio head Bob Shennan and new media director Jon Gisby. Heaf has form in…
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Robert Andrews
May 7, 2008 4:14 AM
News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) is planning closer integration between its new Wall Street Journal website and its existing News International publications in the UK. Times Online EIC Anne Spackman told me WSJ bosses flew to London today to meet her team: “It will be partly about tools, partly about deep…
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Robert Andrews
May 7, 2008 3:55 AM
The London Olympics is prioritising the web in its media strategy for the 2012 Games, the event’s chairman Sebastian Coe told the Periodical Publishers Association’s Magazines 2008 conference in London this morning. “The main project is to make it relevant to people up and down the country,” he said. “Pretty…
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