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DMGT ad revenue plunges as 1,000 jobs go at regional arm

March 28th, 2009

Daily Mail and General Trust media group is doubling the number of job cuts as advertising revenue for the first quarter of this year fell by 24% across its national newspaper division and 37% across its regional titles. Read more…

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March 27th, 2009

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‘Blue-eyed bankers’ to blame for crash, Lula tells Brown

March 27th, 2009

Challenged about his claims, Lula responded: “I only record what I see in the press. I am not acquainted with a single black banker.”

The remarks by Lula, a former trade union leader who had an impoverished upbringing in the poor north-east of Brazil, enlivened Brown’s five-day trip to North and South America. This is designed to pave the way for a global agreement on how to tackle the global downturn at next week’s G20 summit in London, to be chaired by Brown. Read more…

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New York Times set to impose 5% pay cut on all staff

March 27th, 2009

Staff at the New York Times are facing an across-the-board pay cut of 5% as the paper struggles to adapt to a slump in advertising which has driven many US publications into a financial crisis.

The paper’s parent corporation, the New York Times Company, is imposing the temporary cut next month on staff at the NYT, the Boston Globe and at the group’s corporate headquarters. In return, employees will get an extra 10 days’ holiday this year. Read more…

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Mum, Dad, grandma, get off Facebook!

March 27th, 2009

Most Facebook users are over 25, according to new research from Inside Facebook, which adds the following intriguing stats: Read more…

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Will web users join forces to break the online language barrier?

March 27th, 2009

A new Wikipedea-style project will rely on users to upload translations of blogs and newspaper articles

English translations of Arabic newspapers could soon be online. Read more…

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Social Media Marketing Strategies

March 27th, 2009

There has been a significant jump in the popularity of social media websites over the past few years. With it has come a shift in the way that people search for information and how they share and consult opinions on the internet when making purchasing decisions. Read more…

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What they make: The highest paid chief executives in digital media

March 25th, 2009

In the meantime, we went back to see how this played out last time around - that is, whether the 2007 compensation for the chief executives of pure-play publicly traded digital-media companies moved in line with those companies’ stock-market performances for the year. It may surprise you (or not) that the answer, in many cases, is that it didn’t. Mel Karmazin, the chief executive of Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI), got a 23% jump in pay in 2007, pocketing more than $7m. Read more…

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Product placement ban on UK television to continue

March 25th, 2009
Minnie, Ena - and a few cans of Coca-Cola ... Coronation Street viewers will not have to endure scenes like this in the near future thanks to today's ruling. Montage: Rex Features/Alastair Duncan

Minnie, Ena - and a few cans of Coca-Cola ... Coronation Street viewers will not have to endure scenes like this in the near future thanks to today

Product placement is banned on UK TV programmes but the government has been compelled to review this rule in the light of the European parliament’s 2007 directive on audiovisual media services, which gave the green light to limited product placement on TV and to the introduction of rules on ads in children’s programmes. Read more…

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UK commercial radio ‘dying out’

March 25th, 2009

Commercial radio could die out within 15 to 20 years as advertising revenues dwindle, the MediaGuardian Changing Media Summit heard today. Read more…

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