trousers Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 The beginning of the end....for hardcopy newspapers? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9614953/Guardian-seriously-discussing-end-to-print-edition.html The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is close to axing the print editions of the newspapers, despite the hopes of its editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger to keep them running for a few more years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 Wow. This would be a huge step. Can't see it happening until Ipads and the like are commonplace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Tone Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 The beginning of the end....for hardcopy newspapers? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9614953/Guardian-seriously-discussing-end-to-print-edition.html The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is close to axing the print editions of the newspapers, despite the hopes of its editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger to keep them running for a few more years. NB... on the Telegraph web-site, not the Guardian's and denied by Rusbridger, even in the Telegraph article. Always good tactics to undermine your rivals. I was thinking of starting a rumour that Pompey were in financial difficulties, but no one would believe that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 Always good tactics to undermine your rivals. I was thinking of starting a rumour that Pompey were in financial difficulties, but no one would believe that. What's that got to do with our rivals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 The Guardian lose huge amounts of cash (the Scott Group are "profit seeking, not profit reliant"), has shocking circulation figures but excellent online traffic (although very hard to monetise as 90% of traffic is overseas). If any newspaper dumps paper and ink it will be them. Guido Pawkes tweeting about it now so I suspect there's some truth in it. Telegraph Media are doing well, News Int have the cash cow that is the current bun, Desmond is a p**** but makes money (somehow) out of the Express & Star, the Mirror Group are a car crash but have a terrible online presence and the Mail Group have maintained strong circulation figures and remains (rightly or wrongly) the voice of middle England. I believe local papers will be the first to go, rumours are the Pompey News will go weekly soon. Advances in tech will ultimately decide the fate of newspapers, plenty of people say "I love the feel of a newspaper" but when 4G kicks in and tablets get better and more affordable and mobiles even better, future generations will use emigrate further away from traditional media. Right now though, as a country we read way more newspapers than any other country on Earth per capita and have a far wider choice. Both a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 The beginning of the end....for hardcopy newspapers? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9614953/Guardian-seriously-discussing-end-to-print-edition.html The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is close to axing the print editions of the newspapers, despite the hopes of its editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger to keep them running for a few more years. Not very healthy state of affairs for a balanced media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 [/url]The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is close to axing the print editions of the newspapers, despite the hopes of its editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger to keep them running for a few more years. Bog roll has become cheaper to wipe your arse with than left wing drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchen Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 Telegraph Media are doing well, News Int have the cash cow that is the current bun, Desmond is a p**** but makes money (somehow) out of the Express & Star, the Mirror Group are a car crash but have a terrible online presence and the Mail Group have maintained strong circulation figures and remains (rightly or wrongly) the voice of middle England. I believe local papers will be the first to go, rumours are the Pompey News will go weekly soon. . Our own dear Echo went weekly years ago. It just comes out in daily instalments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 17 October, 2012 Share Posted 17 October, 2012 Bog roll has become cheaper to wipe your arse with than left wing drivel. So up until recently you've never used bogroll in your life? Eurgh dont shake Alpine's stink hands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 Bog roll has become cheaper to wipe your arse with than left wing drivel. Silly comment. Just because you don't agree with the political stance doesn't make it drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 Silly comment. Just because you don't agree with the political stance doesn't make it drivel. Hey hey mister colourful, it's not cool to ruin someone's coping strategy of keeping everything black and white! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 Silly comment. Just because you don't agree with the political stance doesn't make it drivel. No, giving Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee free reign to publish rants relating to their personal anti-everything left-wing agendas makes it drivel............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdearlove Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 Newsweek going digital only in January: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/a-turn-of-the-page-for-newsweek.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 Telegraph Media are doing well They're not. They're in major trouble like the rest. They have been shedding staff for five years or more and ost of the experienced and able (ie expensive) staff have gone in repeated rounds of redundancies. Their offices in Victoria overlook the Google UK offices and the Telegraph staff can see the Google people playing pool and generally apparently have a good time - so some Telegraph wags used post it notes to spell out "HELP" in the window. Google replied "How?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 I subscribe to the Guardian's paid digital service, mostly out of a sense of obligation. It's a good paper that occasionally does decent journalism and provides a ton of free content. I wouldn't normally buy a paper anyway; so it's not like my subscription is cannibalising a paper sale. Just felt like a bit of a freeloader and wanted to support some of the work they do. The Guardian is repeatedly mocked in Private Eye for not making any money out of their plunge into digital, so I have to wonder. Have they turned digital revenues around or is this one last, desperate throw of the dice after making operating losses for years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 No, giving Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee free reign to publish rants relating to their personal anti-everything left-wing agendas makes it drivel............. I buy the Guardian a few times a week yet never read their columns. There's more to a paper than a couple of writers whose output probably makes up less than 1% of the print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 18 October, 2012 Share Posted 18 October, 2012 No, giving Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee free reign to publish rants relating to their personal anti-everything left-wing agendas makes it drivel............. So, your objection to two particular columnists makes the entire paper drivel. Interesting logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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