Can't vouch for these figures, but this is a blog and I reckon you can print a rumour. A well placed source, speaking to me in the last week, says The Times is on track to lose...
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Press
More losses at The Times
And the new Daily Express is…
...The Independent. Well, that's the talk. Last night, a newspaper editor told me that had heard that the Lebedev-Kelner plan for the Indy was to...
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Nothing new at the news stand
Smart readers of the magazine circulation figures, out later today, will be able to discern how Brits responded to the recession. But those figures don't tell the real story...
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Sunday paper(s)
Beehive City readers may not always tune into the Sunday Express, but this morning’s front page is joyously contrived.
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Old Friday: failing newspaper economics
Paul Dacre made an entertaining speech a couple of years ago, nicely making a common enemy of both the BBC and heavyweight, loss making newspapers. He said that both were dependent on subsidy, whether from the licence fee, profits made elsewhere in a conglomerate or from a rich proprietor. Since then, the BBC has...
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Russian invasion…
“They just told me not to spend the proceeds on yachts,” Alexander Lebedev speaking to the FT, after he sold his Aeroflot stake for $400 million. There have been rumours about a Lebedev cash-out circulating for a few weeks now. I’m guessing the Indy doesn’t count as a yacht, which means things are starting...
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The Times for sale…intriguing nonsense
Can’t think of any much less likely than Rupert Murdoch selling The Times and The Sunday Times, and anything less bizarre than Michael Wolff’s decision to go public on the rumour via Twitter on Saturday. Phones melted on both sides of the Atlantic with speculation over the weekend. But given Mr Murdoch’s sentimental attachment...
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Liddle Live
Hmm…if I was Rod Liddle, I wouldn’t like Google News’s approach. Type in his name, and an inflammatory quote comes up in a nice blue box for everybody to violently agree or disagree with. See it here. Liddle was on 5 Live on Kate Silverton’s show this morning (listen here), answering questions about his...
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Numbers up
I’m just writing up a column on newspaper sales, hopefully the kind of thing you can’t say when you are employed by any of them, and I’ll post it up as it develops. I’m thinking about newspaper sales of top end newspapers — because the rate of volume decline is so frightening. Price rises...
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A Question of Independence
Rod Liddle’s candidacy to edit The Independent ought to be over. The extraordinary row about his inflammatory postings on the Millwall website should be enough to make Alexander Lebedev, the Indy’s wannabe new owner think. For those who missed it, he wrote, as reported in the Mail on Sunday: “Why do blacks need a...
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