“Anne Scott-James was one of the first top-flight women journalists to cross the barrier between writing principally for and about women to more universal topics. From 1960 to 1968 she wrote a widely-read column in the Daily Mail, a precursor of the legions of opinionated female columnists who now proliferate in the national press.”
Towards the end of this article – which looks at the key players interested in backing/investing in the New York Times – is a comment from the company’s spokeswoman Catherine Mathis: the paper is considering charging for some of its internet site.
“Our goal is to add substantial new revenue from our users without materially affecting the growth of our industry-leading online display advertising business,” she said.
A new charging system for the WSJ was announced this week and tweets from the New York Times suggested a similar move could be made.
Ian Herbert takes a look at the plight of award-winning investigative magazine The Salford Star, which, because has gone online-only from this month because of operating costs.
The magazine has covered the ‘regeneration’ of Salford, scrutinising the deals done behind-the-scenes, and led coverage on the BBC’s relocation fo the north west.
But its investigative and critical work, for which it won best regional newspaper at last year’s Plain English Awards and a Paul Foot award nomination, have not made it immune to economic pressures and the rise of a local council ‘newspaper’.
“The problem is that if you are going to produce a proper community magazine you might have to bite the hand that feeds you. Because we are scrutinising and taking figures apart, advertisers don’t want to go near you,” says editor Stephen Kingston.
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Channel 4’s Dispatches will tonight air extracts from a conversation between current London mayor Boris Johnson and Old Etonian friend Darius Guppy from 1990 in which the pair discuss beating up a journalist – then News of the World reporter Stuart Collier.
In an Independent.co.uk interview in January 2007, Johnson said he had offered Guppy his help in finding the journalist because Guppy had told him ‘that some tabloid scuzzbags had reduced his family to tears’.
Listen to excerpts from the conversation at this link.
According to a statement on the Dispatches website, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said: “This was a colourful story from almost two decades ago. It was of little or no consequence back then – and has no relevance whatsoever now.”
According to the Indy’s Feral Beast, questions raised about executive bonuses at a Guardian News & Media meeting last week ‘were given short shrift’ by editor Alan Rusbridger.
A big question indeed from the Independent’s Ian Burrell. He takes a look at issues affecting the performance of UK regional press and presents the ‘for’ and ‘against’ views on whether the ‘crisis’ matters.
Have regionals ‘had their day’? “Not at all,” the article says, at one point. “An impressive 82 per cent of UK adults read local newspapers, a level of penetration matched by no other medium except television.”
“The Independent is to start running video provided by France 24 after signing a deal with the French news channel for English-language content”, MediaGuardian reports.
Matthew Bell reports that parodist Craig Brown remains in good spirits despite the Telegraph cutting his column: “Why shouldn’t they get rid of me?” Brown is quoted as saying. “I’m a freelancer; I have no loyalty to them, they have no loyalty to me.”
McGuire, who has headed up Newsweek’s London bureau for the past 12 years, has set up International Quarterly – a magazine, which will feature 6,000-word articles focusing on in-depth, international news coverage.