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In Germany, print advertising loss is reaching into the double digits, several points higher than the United States. Two of the nation’s leading dailies, in Hamburg and Berlin, have just been sold by the largest publicly owned publisher in Europe, Axel Springer. Leading newspapers are talking about going ad-free and relying almost entirely on reader revenue.
Source: Nieman Journalism Lab
In an interview with Blomberg TV, the editor of Monocle magazine, Tyler Brûlé, gives some clues on how to make print publications profitable.
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Lloyd’s List, the oldest newspaper in the world, created in 1734, will now only be available online after December. According to sources of the British newspaper, less than 2% of the readers read the paper edition.
Like other newspapers, Lloyd’s List, began as a sheet of paper hanging on the wall with naval industry information and schedules of naval vessels.
More than 270 years later, the Lloyd’s List objective remains the same, only the technology changed.
The online edition, the only one that increased the number of readers and presents some profitability. Today, the newspaper has 16,600 subscribers, according to the Financial Times.
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The Spanish writer and journalist Ignacio Ramonet argued that social networks are causing the extinction of the press, at a conference held in Mexico.
According to Ramonet, “only in the United States disappeared more than 200 daily newspapers, or were reconverted to digital journalism.”
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Harvard University has an ongoing project, RIPTIDE, which aims to bring together the testimonies of some of the most important directors, editors and journalists to explain the changes in this profession.
Part of the objective of this initiative of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, is to explain when and how the prominence of the Hearsts, the Pulitzers, the Sulzberger, the Grahams, the Chandlers, the Coxes, and other families responsible for the news business, was exceeded by Gates, Page and Brin and Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Case, and Jobs.
Three veterans of journalism and the media in the United States, John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz, and Paul Sagan interviewed dozens of people who played important roles in the intersection of media and technology.
“Riptide is the result: more than 50 hours of video interviews and a narrative essay that traces the evolution of digital news from early experiments to today. It’s what really happened to the news business“, says the introduction of this project.
Source: Nieman Lab
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George Brock, professor of journalism at City University in London, recently released a book, “Spike the gloom – journalism has a bright future”, recognizing that it is an established fact that newspapers are disappearing due to an evolutionary process of journalism that has happened before, but that is not the fault of the Internet. According to the author, the television was responsible for the disappearance of more newspapers.
Brock also warns that, recurrently journalism is confused with newspapers which, for him, are distinct things which should not be confused.
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According to the APCT bulletin for the first half of the year, the scenario of decline in sales seen in the general and economic press, remains. Although not significant in most titles, the breaks in the number of printed copies sold per issue, compared to the first six months of 2012, are a reality.Contrarily, the online paid editions are increasing, although the numbers are still quite far from contributing so they can be considered a strong alternative to paper editions.
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It is expected that the Portuguese print sector will suffer a new revenue shortfall, this year, this time from 8% to 520 million euros, according to the study DBK released by Informa D&B.
“The strong kicker advertising investment and poor economic situation has negatively affected the volume of business in the press in recent years,” the study said, adding that the bill has been making a path “trend since 2008, reaching 2012 at around 565 million euros, “about 11% compared to 2011.
“In 2013 it will keep decreasing revenue, estimated a decline of 8% sector“, to 520 million euros, it said.
Last year, the turnover fell in the newspapers (-11.5%) and magazines (-10.7%), for 230 and 335 million, respectively.
In 2012 there were 230 newspapers and 335 magazines in Portugal.
“The number of publishing press companies remain on a downward trend, in parallel with the decrease in the volume of business,” says the study, adding a decrease in the number of publications published paper from 2004 (1.829) for 2011 (1047).
The small-reduction are a feature of this sector, with 90% of workers with a number of less than 10%.
“In the area there is a remarkable business concentration, which has grown in recent years, noting in 2011 the first five publishers a market share above 40%.”
Source: Económico
A editora Zero a Oito vai lançar mais duas revistas infantis. A Phineas e Ferb e a Disney Junior.
Phineas e Ferb, is based on the Disney Channel series issued and targets children from age 7.
Disney Junior is designed for an audience between 2 and 7 years, with games, activities, and stories.
Zero a Oito is already responsible for the magazines Noddy (3-7 years), Panda (3-8 years) and Clube Winx (8-12 years).
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Recent data shows that the crisis in the press is not widespread. Vogue magazine, for example, asserts itself as a solid title and managed to sell 665 ad pages for the next September edition, the second highest number ever, thanks to business investment of fashion, luxury and beauty companies.
After hitting the bottom in 2009, with only 447 ad pages, the magazine has been recovering slowly.
It proves that titles dedicated to niche markets may have ensured their survival for much longer than what some observers thought was possible.
Source: Marshable