Golf Tattoo: a new online newspaper specialized in golf

The new publication has its own newsroom and contents permanently updated. The direction is signed by Rodrigo Cordoeiro, a journalist with more than 20 years of experience in golf.

Golf Tattoo

Golf Tattoo is a project with a clear goal: to become the major platform about golf in the country. Pedro Castelo Branco, promoter of the project, explains the origin of the new newspaper: “The starting point of this project was the perception of a huge lack of information about golf, both in the traditional and digital formats. Nowadays, internet is the main way of information to most of the people, so we wanted to be born to this new era, the digital one, in which who wants to read us just needs to connect to the internet through a computer, a tablet or a smartphone”.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

QuatroQuatroDois will be no longer published

The sports magazine QuatroQuatroDois will no longer have a Portuguese edition, after 11 months of publication.

QuatroQuatroDois

The monthly magazine, specialized in football issues, arrives this month at the newsstands for the last time. The news was announced through the magazine’s Facebook page, in which it is justified the decision with the sales decrease: “Despite all the efforts of the team that in the past months have shown the best stories in the world of football, we noted that it wouldn’t be possible to have sales that could make this project sustainable”. “We would like to thank all of whom have joined us in this journey: to the clubs that always were receptive to our proposes, to the players and the coaches that every month shared their life stories and to our community of readers. It was an intense season”, it could be also read in the text.

QuatroQuatroDois is edited in Portugal by Goody and it is the national edition of the world top seller football magazine, FourFourTwo.

Source: Facebook page of QuatroQuatroDois.

Bikes World magazine: new publication in Portugal

The magazine Bikes World arrives to the Portuguese market through the Portuguese company Grupo V. The new title will be issued monthly and will have a cover price of 1,95€.

Bikes World

The first edition will be “entirely dedicated to our market, with national contents and focused on the world of Portuguese BTT”. The Bikes World will be at newsstands in October and will have a circulation of thirty thousand copies. The editorial director will be Paulo Quintãs.

Grupo V is responsible for the edition in Portugal of Carros & Motores, Gadget & PC, Cães & Companhia and Futebolista. It is a group specialized in leisure contents in Portugal and Spain. The bet on the new magazine it happens because of the “success of Bikes World in Spain”.

The launch of the magazine will be happening at the Festival Bike Santarém, from the 17th until the 19th of October.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

BGamer now has only a digital format

The video game magazine BGamer will no longer be printed, having only a digital edition. The title was funded 16 years ago.

BGamer

The change was announced in the editorial of September, which was written by the director, Bruno Mendonça. In the text is referred that “the magazine in the traditional paper format reaches its end, but, even though, “the BGamer will remain alive and promises to jump, definitively, to the digital world, with more regular updates of the contents and the guarantee to be closer than ever to its readers”.

In a statement published in BGamer’s website (http://bgamer.sapo.pt), the newsroom shows the reasons for the change: “The times change. The habits change. The demands change. People change (although less these ones). The games change (rightly so). Everything changes over time. And BGamer is also changing, moreover, as it has been changing over the past 16 years”.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

A Voz de Trás-os-Montes ends

The regional newspaper ended this Tuesday its publication. It had regular editions since 1943.

A Voz de Trás-os-Montes, based in Vila Real, had an average circulation of 6 thousand copies and had its end in the same day that journalists and other workers received the letters of dismissal. According to Lusa, the document refers that the decision arises from the crisis suffered in the regional press, which was aggravated after a compensation to be paid to a former worker, whom won a lawsuit.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

New publication: Jornal da Economia do Mar

New publication: Jornal da Economia do Mar

The newspaper Jornal da Economia do Mar it is already available at the newsstands. The new monthly publication is specialized in sea issues and has a cover price of 3,50 euros.

The circulation of the new newspaper is of 5 thousand copies and has Gonçalo Magalhães Colaço as director. In September it will also be available a digital version. In a press release, the leading figures of the project describes the publication in this way: “The new publication is intended to attract and bring this market sector to the sea businesses, as much as it’s possible to characterize the Portuguese economy as an economy specifically based in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, although these, so far, haven’t always realized the huge potential of the multiples businesses can be made starting from the sea”.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

Magazine Empire Portugal will be closed

The cinema magazine Empire Portugal came to an end after three years of existence. Thus, the Portuguese media market no longer will have a publication exclusively dedicated to the Seventh Art.

Empire Portugal

The news was published by the magazine itself through its Facebook page. The statement says that “This will be the last Empire Portugal that will be published. Unfortunately, it was not possible to resist to the erosion of the market and the commercial investment”. This cinema magazine was the only one in the Portuguese press after the closure of Time Out Portugal and Premiere, in January of 2012.

Source: Notícias ao Minuto.

‘Smart Cities’: one more news magazine in the Portuguese media market

The ‘Smart Cities’ news magazine is the new bid from the publisher MediaLine. The new publication will be launched on the 1st of July.

Smart Cities

The magazine will focus on the theme of sustainable cities, projects and solutions in the areas of environment, energy, urbanization, mobility, social innovation, among others. It will be sold at 3 euros, with a circulation of 10 thousand copies. Will also be available a digital version of the publication with exclusive articles, news and interviews.

Rita Ascenso, the Director of MediaLine, justifies the launch of the magazine saying that “the inevitable evolution of cities to smart cities and all its’ associated activities is a business that is marking the decade”. The ‘smart city’ concept, which governs the content of the magazine, is characterized by Rita Ascenso as follows: “They are sustainable cities, thought for people, where social progress and well being are the essential”.

Source: Meios e Publicidade.

The daily online edition of Expresso is available

Expresso, a weekly newspaper, which is published on Saturday, has now a daily online version, which is posted, from monday to friday, at 6 p.m.

After 41 years as a weekly newspaper, Expresso innovates and has now a daily edition, exclusive to subscribers and buyers of the paper version, whom receive a code to access the contents of the online version for a week. Ricardo Costa, director of Expresso, considers the change as a “digital shift”, in line with what has happened in recent years in Portuguese media. For the director of the newspaper, the new edition is about the “reading of the events of the day, done by the newsroom of Expresso with analysis and interpretation”. This is a pioneer strategy in Portugal and it’s already used in foreign newspapers such as La Repubblica, El Mundo and Globo.

The paper edition costs 3.2 euros instead of the previous 3 euros, in order to support the new investment. The digital signature costs 69.99 euros per year.

Source: Público.