SMH takes top newspaper prize
The Sydney Morning Herald has taken out the top prize at the annual Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association (PANPA) annual dinner, as Fairfax publications performed strongly in the awards night’s… Read on >>
Fairfax Media returns to profit
Fairfax Media has reported a better-than-expected profit result for the 2009-10 financial year, reversing the heavy loss it experienced the previous year.
Fairfax reported an annual net profit of $282.1… Read on >>
Circulation: Newspapers take another hit
The latest circulation data for major newspapers around Australia have again featured a wall of negative numbers, with the vast majority of audited publications recording year-on-year declines.
According to Audit… Read on >>
Print August 13th 2010 — 1:21 am
Circulation: Mass weeklies drag on mags market
The magazines market has reported largely stable circulation figures in the year to June, but gains in areas such as food and entertaining were offset by persistent declines for the… Read on >>
Print August 13th 2010 — 12:55 am
Readership: Newspapers continue significant readership decline
Newspapers generally recorded significant declines in readership in the year to June, according to data released today.
Fairfax Media‘s The Australian Financial Review, which has conspicuously fallen away in both readership… Read on >>
Print August 12th 2010 — 9:41 pm
Readership: Women’s magazines lose readers amidst general decline
Magazines experienced declines in readership in the year to June, down 2.2 per cent compared to last year according to data from Roy Morgan Research.
Magazines targeted at women generally… Read on >>
Print August 12th 2010 — 9:40 pm
Devine returning to News Limited
The Sydney Morning Herald‘s columnist Miranda Devine will return to News Limited, after a nine-year stint at the Fairfax broadsheet.
The conservative writer left Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph to join… Read on >>
Appointments,Print August 9th 2010 — 3:08 pm
Telegraph accused of smearing sexual harassment plaintiff
The former David Jones employee suing the company over sexual harassment complaint has accused The Sunday Telegraph of spearheading a “smear campaign” against her.
The News Limited tabloid submitted a… Read on >>
Journalism,Legal,Print August 8th 2010 — 2:55 pm
News Corp bounces back with $2.5bn profit
News Corporation has announced a full-year profit of $US2.5 billion ($A2.7 billion), bouncing back from last year’s heavy loss and slightly exceeding the company’s expectations.
News Corp’s profit in the… Read on >>
Business,Industry,Print,Television August 5th 2010 — 2:13 pm
WAN increases yearly and last quarter profit
West Australian Newspapers Holdings (WAN) has posted a 10.3% increase in its full-year profit, suggesting that its markets were in a modest recovery phase.
The company’s net profit has risen… Read on >>
ACP adjusts senior director roles
ACP Magazines has announced that the head of its custom title division, Gerry Reynolds, will be promoted to deputy director of group publishing, B&T Today reports.
Reynolds, who will work… Read on >>
Appointments,Business,Print July 29th 2010 — 10:38 am
Fairfax and APN combine classified advertising
Fairfax Media and APN News & Media have formed an alliance, which will see Fairfax’s online classified advertising merge with the print classified sections of ninety daily regional and local… Read on >>
Advertising / Marketing,Online,Print July 27th 2010 — 1:08 pm
Review: iPad Newspaper Apps
Just as Apple commence the second round of international releases of the iPad, The Spy Report has reviewed a number of the newspaper apps that have been launched.
PressReader (Free,… Read on >>
SMH hits the iPad app store
The long awaited iPad application for The Sydney Morning Herald has hit the App Store only to receive poor reviews.
The app, based on the existing app Press Reader from… Read on >>
Fairfax patriarch to step down from board
Fairfax Media has confirmed that John B. Fairfax will step down from the board of the media company later this year, taking the Fairfax family’s representation on the board down… Read on >>
Business,Print,Resignations / Terminations July 20th 2010 — 11:50 am