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Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:23 AM PST
Guardian Media Group (GMG) grew digital revenues 36 percent to £85.1 million ($168 million) in the 2007/08 financial year ending March 30. The fastest growth was in digital display ads…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jul 2008 08:32 AM PST
Caroline Little, who till earlier this year was the CEO of Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s online division and left, has now joined Guardian News & Media (GNM), the UK-based…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 11 Jul 2008 04:30 AM PST
The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to which we now belong.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 22 May 2008 03:10 AM PST
The pattern continues in today’s earnings, as UK news operators plough money in to digital projects and take a hit on classifieds ads, our sister site paidContent:UK reports… -- PA…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 26 Mar 2008 05:58 PM PST
-- Yahoo HotJobs introduces ranked searches: A dismal economy inevitably tends to lead to more job seekers, so perhaps Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has timed the launch of HotJobs’ new search…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 25 Feb 2008 01:51 PM PST
We missed this one earlier this month: Cinelan, a new New York City-based company hosting a library of professionally produced three-minute nonfiction short films, launched at the Berlin International Film…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:00 AM PST
Guardian, which has a big chunk of its website traffic coming from U.S. but has always had a hard time building out a sales infrastructure here and monitizing it, has…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 21 Dec 2007 10:14 AM PST
So ends the saga of Emap (LSE: EMA), one of the biggest magazine companies to ever exist in UK. It has sold off its remaining division, the B2B media unit,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Nov 2007 12:19 PM PST
From our UK site padContent:UK: At Monaco Media Forum this weekend, I briefly interviewed Simon Waldman, the digital strategy head for the Guardian Media Group. Some of the issues he…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 23 Oct 2007 05:21 AM PST
The Guardian today launched GuardianAmerica.com, its attempt to break in to the US market using a brand of journalism that has already proved a success in the States. The site…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Sep 2007 01:05 PM PST
Analysts at Deutsche Bank have released a slightly surprising bullish assessment of the wide-ranging partnership between several newspaper publishers and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) that was announced last November. The analysts’…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:08 PM PST
The Guardian is planning a “stealthy” launch for its forthcoming U.S. online edition. In an interview with our newest site, paidContent:UK (see full transcript), Guardian Media Group (GMG) CEO Carolyn…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 15 Aug 2007 11:10 AM PST
Guardian News & Media, the division of Guardian Media Group that publishes the likes of The Observer and Guardian Unlimited, has bought Kable, a public sector information publisher, for an…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 01 Aug 2007 12:22 AM PST
From the Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) results ... Digital revenue from display and recruitment ads at UK’s Guardian News & Media (GNM), the national newspaper division, grew 49 percent in…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 25 Jul 2007 09:17 AM PST
Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the subsidiary of U.K. newspaper publisher DMGT that operates sites including DailyMail.co.uk and ThisIsLondon, has signed with Tomorrow Focus, a German digital content company, to sell…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jul 2007 01:16 AM PST
The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital and product manager at European online DVD rental service Lovefilm.…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 11 Jul 2007 08:40 AM PST
Have a large grain of salt handy? MediaGuardian is out with its seventh annual list of the 100 most influential figures in media, declaring “this year we ripped up the…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 03 Jul 2007 02:59 AM PST
Several British news organizations are making efforts to tailor publishing efforts to an American audience. The IHT summarizes some of the headway made to date: Times: Has already started distributing…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 07:44 AM PST
- Guardian: Deputy commercial director Adam Freeman has been promoted to Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) commercial director position, replacing Stuart Taylor. Freeman has been with GNM since 1992, when…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 Mar 2007 07:03 AM PST
Britain’s Guardian intends to launch an American version of its Commentisfree op-ed portal in an effort bring liberal opinion to the US, editor Alan Rusbridger told the OPA Forum for…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 09 Jan 2007 02:46 PM PST
Guardian group in UK has combined its print and digital divisions on the business side. The paper will revamp its Guardian Unlimited ad sales digital and print teams into one…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST
-- Guardian hires digital development head: Guardian Newspapers has appointed Tom Turcan to the new role of head of digital media development. Turcan, the chairman of publishing services company Dovetail,…
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Sun 17 Sep 2006 06:11 PM PST
-- Guardian: Emily Bell has been promoted to director of digital content and will now sit on the board of Guardian Newspapers. She will be responsible for developing and expanding…
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 06 Sep 2006 12:11 AM PST
The Guardian is no longer a UK national newspaper, said Simon Waldman - recently promoted to director of digital strategy for the Guardian Media Group. ”Media organizations are traditionally based…
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Fri 01 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST
Some News International snippets in this MediaGuardian interview with Les Hinton, Murdoch’s “special envoy on earth” - otherwise known as executive chairman. The old MySun community site rumour is hinted…
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