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Six months after its change from broadsheet to Berliner format, the Guardian was named newspaper of the year at the British Press Awards Monday night, The Guardian announces. Also six months ago, the paper became the only national U.K. newspaper to print in full color, and the investment, at 80 million pounds, was hailed as the biggest transformation of the paper since it first appeared in 1821.
According to Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Newspapers Ltd, the switch to the Berliner format has paid off in every way, commercially and journalistically.
But some industry figures believe that the British Press Awards were of less value this year because three of Britain’s biggest newspaper groups - the Telegraph Group, Associated Newspapers and Express Newspapers - refused to participate because of negative press surrounding the awards last year.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
