Jornal Sénior ends publication

The last edition of Jornal Sénior was launched in the past 15 January, nine months after commenced business.

In declarations to the national newspaper “Público”, Mário Zambujal, director of Jornal Sénior, explain that “is a question of financial sustainability”, stating that would be needed  more two or three  years for the project become viable.

Was a biweekly periodicity newspaper and had the cover price of 95 cents.

Source: Briefing

“Expresso” will have a digital edition

The weekly newspaper “Expresso” will launch by the end of the first half of 2014, a daily digital edition to subscribers.

According to Ricardo Costa, director of Expresso newspaper print edition, “the launch of a daily edition is one of the greatest transformations in the history of the newspaper, either for writing or for newspaper readers.” He adds that this digital edition is “an absolutely necessary transformation to the future of the newspaper and journalism has always done and that we will finish without losing our starting values: independence, credibility, innovation and freedom.”

The direction of this daily digital edition of the “Expresso” will be carried out by Pedro Santos Guerreiro, former director of Jornal de Negócios

Source: Expresso

New digital Portuguese newspaper, “The Observer,” available later this year

Will be launched in the first half of this year the digital newspaper “The Observer“. Under the authority of the Social Democrats Alexandre Relvas e António Carrapatoso, this digital newspaper, from the editorial point of view, “defends the representative democracy, the market economy, such an open and global society”, according to the website. The guarantee is a newspaper “Independent”, “fruit of a new media group 100% Portuguese.”

David Dinis, until then political editor in the weekly newspaper “Sol”, take the direction of “The Observer”.

Source: Jornal de Negócios

Huffington Post launches new digital project

‘Word Post’ is the new journalistic project of Arianna Huffington, owner of the Huffington Post, and the billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, that will be launched in January.

The ‘Word Post’ will be an online journal, with international editions and will have as collaborators influents personalities in our society, such as, Tony Blair, Bill Gates or Eric Schmidt. The main idea is to give a global vision of topical issues, adding contributions from “heads of the state and big business men, such as unemployed in Spain or a student from Brazil”, as highlighter the owner, during the presentation of the project.

The website will replace the international webpage of Huffington Post.

Source: The Guardian

The print edition of ‘La Gaceta’ has been closed

As of December 27th 2013, the spanish daily ‘La Gaceta’ ceased its print edition, keeping the newspaper in an online version.

Breaking sales and changes in the direction of the newspaper have dictaded the closure of ‘La Gaceta’, who belongs to Intereconomía Group.

The print edition of 'La Gaceta' has been closed

The print edition of ‘La Gaceta’ has been closed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: El Confidencial