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Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian for a new media venture he euphorically described as a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity.” That venture is backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
The Guardian’s expansion into the U.S. is on track, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger said Wednesday, with traffic up by 37 percent last year. For now, there are no plans for a paywall.
A U.S. election bump lifts the newspaper above the venerable broadcaster, as the two British news orgs vie for American readers. But closer inspection shows the BBC remains the more popular brand.
Payment meters win another exponent with news The Telegraph will require subscriptions from non-UK readers for 20 monthly articles and app access. Can this strategy of charging its biggest online audience pay off?
‘Dead trees’ aren’t dead – they’re just dying. As news publishing’s funding dilemma grows more acute, everyone seems to know what The Guardian should do. Plenty of opinions were floated this week, as the paper denied it will stop printing.
The Guardian is filling a gap in its digital leadership by hiring Zeit Online chief editor Wolfgang Blau as its first ever digital strategy director. What will he do to grow the brand online?
The Guardian still has time to innovate before it really must turn a profit. For now, its boss has given accountants an assessment of its commercial position that is an “open” as its journalism.
If web users won’t pay for quality news, should they be made to cough up through one of the few digital bills they do pay? A news levy must now be collected through ISPs, one high-profile journalist says.
Guardian News & Media is re-opening its voluntary redundancy programme after its “digital-first” survival strategy’s first year resulted in much higher company losses.
Five years after it acquired public-sector technology research firm Kable (here was our story), Guardian News & Media (GNM) is off-loading the outfit.
Here are some of the latest executive-level hirings and departures from the world of digital media business…
Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.
We’ve been covering already how the Guardian’s digital-first strategy has resulted in some sections of the printed newspaper shrinking. Toda…
Just a few days after DMGT said online car classifieds are proving “challenging”, AutoTrader’s operator has reported strong gains in the sam…
The Guardian’s debut iPad edition has been downloaded 145,880 times in the week since launch, making it more popular than the publisher’s iP…
Eighteen months after iPad launched and following a long gestation, The Guardian is finally on the verge of getting its iPad edition out the…
Guardian News & Media has launched its new homepage, guardiannews.com, from its digital operation in New York.
The Guardian finally introduced on Wednesday an edition for the most used mobile platform, in an indication publishers may finally be catchi…
If the question “What is Guardian Media Group?” could be answered by a look at its profits sheet, the reply would be “a business publisher”,…
The first part of Guardian News & Media’s “digital-first” strategy is to quit its print editions outside the UK.
The international editions…
The worsening state of the printed news and advertising market has prompted The Guardian to downsize in print and become “digital-first” ear…
Guardian News & Media has announced a “major transformation programme” to de-emphasise print and become “digital-first”, making it one of th…
Six months after revising its iPhone app on a subscription model, Guardian.co.uk is at two crossroads – 1) its first subscribers must this m…
Guardian News & Media’s international and business development director Stella Beaumont has decided to leave after 28 years with the company…
Guardian News & Media digital development director Mike Bracken has stepped down after three years, in new Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew M…
Guardian News & Media is ending the project it launched in 2010 to try and figure out the future of local journalism.
SEO consultant Malcolm Coles shares how much his spending on one news brand has crashed in the digital age…
As part of an effort to reboot its U.S. strategy, Guardian News & Media is adding a new chief revenue officer based in New York. Steve Howe,…
Guardian Media Group’s recent restructure is ongoing. The multimedia group is making redundant the managing director role of its main Guardi…
The Guardian may have moved toward sustainable smartphone revenue with its new
New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller is making several changes he says will simplify GMG’s structure, bolster its exec team and focus…
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to undergo a change of strategy under plans drawn up by its new chief executive, Andrew Miller, reports today’…
We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment.
Now…
Guardian Media Group, our parent company, has hired GroupM financial exec Darren Singer to fill its CFO gap. The position has been open sinc…
Apax Partners and Guardian Media Group
Maybe things are looking up for news publishers who decide to stick with ad funding and eschew reader fees.
“Digital ad revenues are up ove…
If you build it, they may come; but if you don’t build it yet give away the raw materials, someone may build it for you.
Such is the case w…
By Josh Halliday: Caroline Little, the chief executive of Guardian News & Media’s US operation, is to step down from her role with the c…
CNBC says it’s hiring Guardian News & Media’s mobile business manager Torsten de Riese to be its digital director for Europe, Middle East an…
Some new tidbits for metrics fiends today, from The Guardian’s optimisation and effectiveness head Tim Gentry.
Presenting to an Association…
Now that its long-time CEO Carolyn McCall has flown off to run budget airline easyJet, Guardian Media Group is giving its interim replacemen…
Guardian Media Group said digital revenue at its Guardian News & Media division “declined only marginally” in the year to March, as it annou…
By Steve Busfield: Guardian Media Group’s annual pre-tax loss has grown significantly for the financial year to the end of March, due to wri…
It may be sceptical that readers would pay to read its news site – but Guardian News & Media is today taking the wraps off two alternative n…
Guardian Media Group is putting a numbers guy in charge, at least for the time being, in place of outgoing veteran Carolyn McCall.
Chief fi…
They say people who can do, and people who can’t teach – but Guardian News & Media’s veteran digital content director Emily Bell, who has sp…
Life would be so boring without bolts from the blue, like this one; our colleague Emily Bell is leaving The Guardian to join the journalism…
Facing their toughest challenge in generations, British news publishers are sniping at each other like schoolgirls in the playground…
The…
Guardian Media Group and easyJet both confirmed GMG CEO Carolyn McCall’s departure for the budget airline Wednesday morning (see full earlie…
On the face of it, the only thing news publishing and aviation have in common is massive recent disruption – nevertheless, Guardian Media Gr…
The writing was on the wall for Channel M when Trinity Mirror bought GMG Regional Media from Guardian Media Group but left the Manchester me…
It’s not exactly a great leap from publishing an iPhone app to offering one on the soon-to-be-released iPad – not only will the former run…
The Guardian has already ruled one big paywall at the director level and the editor level. Now there’s no doubt, as Guardian Media Group CEO…
Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture in honour of the memory of Hugh Cudlipp.
Ask any British journalist who were their edito…
It’s not the Berlin Wall and Rupert Murdoch heads News Corp (NYSE: NWS). not the USSR, but Alan Rusbridger’s speech on the future of journal…
Guardian News & Media’s digital director had already called charging for online newspapers “a stupid idea” back in August. Now editor Alan R…
Okay, that may be getting ahead of ourselves a little…
Guardian.co.uk says it’s sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app since launch…
By Chris Tryhorn: The Manchester Evening News is to row back from its strategy of giving away thousands of copies by restricting free distri…
Guardian.co.uk’s new iPhone app got some favourable reviews upon its release on Sunday night. Even more favourable – it shifted 9,000 in the…
Guardian News & Media has launched its paid-for iPhone app in a bid to corner the news app market in the UK, US and Ireland – and it’s looki…
Guardian News & Media has given staff more details on what the business will look like after a round of restructuring and 100 job cuts acros…
Guardian News & Media has given staff more details on what the business will look like after a round of restructuring and 100 job cuts acros…
Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial…
Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial…
The world’s oldest newspaper didn’t shut, but it will be scaled back. The Observer will be slimmed down to a four-section weekly paper as Gu…
Guardian America, the U.S. arm of Guardian News and Media (of which we’re a separate division), is laying off six production/edit employees,…
Guardian News & Media (GNM) is shuffling several exec chairs and abandoning its GuardianAmerica.com strategy, as it continues a big structur…
AutoTrader, the car classifieds advertiser that began life as a regional paper three decades ago, now makes a whopping nine tenths of its mo…
Guardian.co.uk is preparing to launch an iPhone app and it’s likely to charge for it, paidContent:UK has learned.
Guardian News & Media con…
Guardian News & Media has lost £20 million from Guardian.co.uk in the last seven years. Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote on the site:…
It will still be the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper for the forseeable future… Guardian News & Media has given a stay of execution to The…
By Stephen Brook: The managing director of Guardian News & Media, Tim Brooks, has told staff that more cost savings at the publisher of The…
By Chris Tryhorn: The Guardian is to hire a manager to run a planned readers’ club that could build a new revenue stream for the paper. Offe…
London financial publisher Capital Ideas has declared its interest in buying The Observer newspaper and turning it into a weekly current-aff…
As the search for new newspaper income rolls on, The Guardian is asking readers’ views on a proposed pay-for “members’ club” to “support The…
[qi:109] Forty-eight percent of American 18- to 24-year-olds were on Facebook as of June compared with some 31 percent in the same…
Paul Lomax is a man on the move: in two weeks he leaves his job as head of online for GMG Regionals to becomes Dennis Publishing’s first chi…
GMG Regional’s head of new media Paul Lomax is leaving the company to become chief technology officer (CTO) at Dennis Publishing. Lomax conf…
Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall says further upcoming restructuring “inevitably means we will be a smaller organisation,” even after…
How do you solve a problem like Observer? Guardian Media Group isn’t commenting on reports in The Sunday Times and Financial Times that it c…
It has warned throughout the year that its full year numbers would be grim and here’s the proof: for the year to March 29 Guardian Media Gro…
It has warned throughout the year that its full year numbers would be grim and here’s the proof: for the year to March 29 Guardian Media Gro…
More M&A consolidation in the property search market, just as home buying itself endures its own ups and downs. Guardian Media Group’s GMG P…
Updated below: GMG called us to correct some figures in Guardian.co.uk’s original report…
Original: Guardian Media Group has given its ow…
— Guardian News & Media: The publisher’s North America CEO Caroline Little is tapping a former WashingtonPost.com colleague, Jim Brady, as…
The Guardian is close to dropping its Thursday Technology supplement, we have learned and confirmed. The online counterpart, which is update…
As print advertising continues to slide and online slows, there’s always another way to up your revenues in the downturn: direct payments f…
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, who has already reshaped his paper in to one of the most ambitious reformers, offered his latest…
For the past three years, the Guardian has offered Media Talk, a podcast featuring discussion and debate about the latest media news in the…
Yes, MediaWeek’s report is true. Guardian News & Media is no longer using Reuters to sell US advertising. Guardian.co.uk switched from selli…
While one side of Guardian Media Group rolls out an open technology initiative, things aren’t so prosperous at GMG’s regional newspapers. Th…
Guardian News & Media is opening access to its digital infrastructure by launching a series of APIs that allow developers to create apps, si…
Guardian News & Media is opening access to its digital infrastructure by launching a series of APIs that allow developers to create apps, si…
— Tiscali: Italian ISP Tiscali has appointed its Luca Scano MD of its Italian division. Scano will keep his current job as CFO of Tiscali I…
Guardian Media Group is considering starting news websites to serve local communities, just as existing local papers celebrate their BBC Loc…
Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall has warned regional publishers will have to make drastic cuts to avoid going to the wall. Speaking t…
Guardian.co.uk’s head of editorial development Neil McIntosh is leaving after nine and a half years to become editor of the European edition…
— Guardian: Guardian.co.uk will sell region-specific web ads in Singapore, with the expansion of Ad2One, an ad sales outfit that already so…
Guardian Media Group (GMG) grew digital revenues 36 percent to £85.1 million ($168 million) in the 2007/08 financial year ending March 30.…
Guardian Media Group (GMG) grew digital revenues 36 percent to £85.1 million in the 2007/08 financial year ending March 30. The fastest gro…
Yet another year in which they’ve overlooked the I Like Turtles kid; here are the digital highlights (or perhaps lowlights) of the annual Me…
While the opposition to building new coal plants continues to grow, perhaps we should also add a lesser-known villain to the climate…
A lot of readers here use Macs, but many use PCs, and if you’ve got an older system it can be very…
The pattern continues in today’s earnings, as UK news operators plough money in to digital projects and take a hit on classifieds ads, our s…
I caught up with online news commentator Jeff Jarvis – a US-UK columnist and consultant – at the Online Publishers Association conference, a…
Guardian.co.uk, which last year set up its GuardianAmerica.com US subsite, is now considering launching in several more territories. Asked w…
Despite a wave of newsroom integrations bringing growing prominence to online newspapers, the websites are still chronically dependent on th…
Guardian News & Media (GNM) is to launch a developer network to “offer data and tools for external developers”. A newspaper… starting a de…
— Yahoo HotJobs introduces ranked searches: A dismal economy inevitably tends to lead to more job seekers, so perhaps Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ha…
It’s Guardian press correspondent Stephen Brook who has the task of reporting which of his colleagues are going as part of a redundancy roun…
A trio of publishing execs has bought Earls Court-based NT Magazine Group – the subdivision printing the 25-year-old TNT Magazine for London…
We missed this one earlier this month: Cinelan, a new New York City-based company hosting a library of professionally produced three-minute…
I never understood the point of “Unlimited”…The concept was that the online version is not bound by the limitations of print, and hence th…
Current TV and The Guardian have gone live with their vlog partnership, which we reported on in December. Every day, one of the paper’s repo…
Guardian Unlimited will hand some of its social media platforms development to Texas-based Pluck (see announcement and PG). Specifically, it…
Recently-departed Observer editor Roger Alton has penned his own postscript in today’s Guardian, accepting Sunday newspapers are unlikely to…
OK, I blew it. It doesn’t make me feel better by admitting the mistake, but at least now I can move towards…
Peace has broken out at Guardian News & Media over the publisher’s all-important multiplatform integration plan. NUJ members had at one poin…
How was the first Republican CNN-YouTube debate? So exciting I fell asleep! I missed the last six questions, and had to catch…
The newsroom integration plan may be proving controversial with editorial staff, but Guardian News & Media (GNM) has made two director-level…
At Monaco Media Forum this weekend, I briefly interviewed Simon Waldman, the digital strategy head for the Guardian Media Group. Previous to…
The backdrop to the resignation of The Observer editor Roger Alton after nearly a decade last night is the looming online integration of the…
The Guardian today launched GuardianAmerica.com, its attempt to break in to the US market using a brand of journalism that has already prove…
So it is finally decided: Guardian America’s website is launching Tuesday, October 23. The URL, as previously announced is Guardianamerica.c…
Guardian News & Media is to make every edition of its newspapers since 1791 available in a subscription online archive (via Guardian). Olive…
On Friday, we noted The Times’ report that Guardian Media Group (GMG), United Business Media, Apax, Cinven and Providence are through to the…
Guardian journalists have voted to table a strike ballot and step up disagreements with management over pay and working conditions as the pu…
— Thinkproperty: The property portal owned by Guardian Media Group has hired rival Rightmove’s marketing manager Suzanne Deakins to a new r…
The Guardian is planning a “stealthy” launch for its forthcoming U.S. online edition. In an in-depth interview with paidContent:UK, Guardian…
Guardian News & Media, the division of Guardian Media Group that publishes the likes of The Observer and Guardian Unlimited, has bought Kabl…
From the Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) results … Digital revenue from display and recruitment ads at UK’s Guardian News & Media (GNM), the…
Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the subsidiary of U.K. newspaper publisher DMGT that operates sites including DailyMail.co.uk and This…
The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital a…
Have a large grain of salt handy? MediaGuardian is out with its seventh annual list of the 100 most influential figures in media, declarin…
Several British news organizations are making efforts to tailor publishing efforts to an American audience. The IHT summarizes some of the h…
– Guardian: Deputy commercial director Adam Freeman has been promoted to Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) commercial director position, replaci…
Britain’s Guardian intends to launch an American version of its Commentisfree op-ed portal in an effort bring liberal opinion to the US, ed…
Guardian group in UK has combined its print and digital divisions on the business side. The paper will revamp its Guardian Unlimited ad sale…
— Guardian hires digital development head: Guardian Newspapers has appointed Tom Turcan to the new role of head of digital media developmen…
— Guardian: Emily Bell has been promoted to director of digital content and will now sit on the board of Guardian Newspapers. She will be r…
The Guardian is no longer a UK national newspaper, said Simon Waldman – recently promoted to director of digital strategy for the Guardian M…
Some News International snippets in this MediaGuardian interview with Les Hinton, Murdoch’s “special envoy on earth” – otherwise known as ex…
— A long overdue move: Guardian Unlimited’s director of digital publishing Simon Waldman has been promoted: he’s now director of digital st…
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Independent editor Simon Kelner were on BBC Radio 4’s Today program Friday morning responding to another…
UK’s Guardian Media Group announced its full year 2005-2006 results today, and while the print is still in a bad shape, the online is boomin…
Guardian tech editor Victor Keegan just got back from Telford, home of the industrial revolution, which makes a tidy introduction for his th…
UK’s fierce newspaper war is, in one part, predicated on one-upping each other through gimmicks, giveaways etc. Now some of that element is…
Guardian’s global ambitions haven’t been hidden, but UK rival Times stole some of the limelight last week when they announced launching of a…
Carolyn McCall, who I met last week at the WeMedia conference in London (and we were on the same panel about business models), has been name…
Well, high time…Carolyn McCall, CEO of UK’s Guardian Newspapers mentioned that the company’s online arm, Guardian Unlimited is on course…
UK newspaper Guardian’s rather ambitious online commentary/blog project, Commentisfree, is live now. The site is being touted as the UK vers…
I gave Emily and Simon a hard time about the name, but I know they have some history with this…this is the ambitious blog/comment site pro…
Things are in a flux at the Guardian Media Group, though not necessarily in a bad way. Among them, the UK media group may sell off non-core…
Guardian Online, one of the biggest news/newspapers sites in UK, is in profits this year, according to Simon Waldman, director of digital pu…
The Guardian is launching in a new, smaller print format (called “The Berliner”) in UK today, and the editors are blogging the experience. P…
What with all those fat pipes coming to their homes, Japanese consumers could soon become the test bed for newer VoIP technologies.…
UK’s Guardian Media Group (GMG) has sold its recruitment website Workthing for
The people running Guardian Unlimited, both on the business and editorial side, have the savviest team…I would also venture to say that ma…
“Take a medium and a bright idea and you have movement that begins to leave the poor old print world – with its lorries and presses and heav…
Guardian Newspapers will take its “Soulmates” dating service online next week. The launch comes on the back of its existing telephone dating…
Guardian Unlimited, the online division of Guardian newspaper, is to begin publishing a quarterly geographic breakdown of its website users…
The Guardian’s media section online has started with its planned registration scheme…”As others have had to introduce controls and chargin…
It ain’t over till its over…Salon Media Group, parent of Salon.com, has announced a series of ambitious editorial initiatives, including t…
Guardian’s digital edition is set for launch coming week…The Guardian digital edition will cost £9.99 a month, The Observer’s £4.99, wit…
Guardian’s media site MediaGuardian.co.uk will be requiring registrations from March, as planned. This follows last year’s introduction of p…
The Guardian and Observer digital editions started into beta today…
Simon Waldman, the director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, is in the center of a rather sticky copyright controversy…NY Tim…
An interview with Emily Bell, the editor-in-chief of Gurdian Unlimited, the online version of Guardian UK…On the reason for its huge popul…
(Update: 4:20 GMT: the site’s back up now) Guardian Unlimited, the popular website of Guardian UK, has been down today, due to what it calls…
Something I mentioned here before: Guardian did an online chat with site editor Emily Bell, explaining the launch of premium versions of the…
In a rather unusual step, Guardian Unlimited (the web division of Guardian UK) editor-in-chief Emily Bell had a live chat with the site’s re…
A rather interesting profile of Simon Waldman, head of Guardian’s online efforts, in latest New Media Age (not online)…
The story characte…
The Sun has become the most popular newspaper website in UK, surpassing Guardian, according to the latest audit by the ABC Electronic. The A…
The Register captures the zeitgeist surprisingly well: Guardian’s launch of new premium services is a defining moment in UK online media mar…
: (Read the story below first, on Guardian’s launch of premium services): Simon Waldman, the director of digital publishing at Guardian News…
In what is perhaps the biggest roll-out of subscription services for a media company, The Guardian has finally launched a bunch of premium s…
An interesting story on how all the investments made by online news sites in the Iraq conflict may not necessarily translate well for the bo…
The Guardian’s Learnpremium is an educational site that offers lesson plans, in line with the National Curriculum, as well as resources and…
