Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
Johnston Press CEO Ashley Highfield says the news business shouldn’t panic, as he aims to make a quarter of its revenue from digital, turn i…
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Will Highfield Dare To Turn The Scotsman Into An Online-Only Paper?
Kenneth Roy has greeted the new chief executive of Johnston Press, Ashley Highfield, with a reminder about the parlous state of his company’…
Johnston Press Reports Eight Percent Fall In Ad Revenues
Regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press has reported a slightly improved circulation and advertising revenue performance in the 18 weeks…
Johnston Outsourcing Another Online Classifieds Service: Local Video Ads
Johnston Press will use a startup run by a former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) executive to serve rich media ads across its 273 news sites.
It…
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Johnston Hurt in Print And Digital By UK Recruitment Prospects
Ashley Highfield will inherit a troubled Johnston Press when he becomes CEO on November 1.
The local news publisher’s big idea of adding ge…
NatMag, Johnston Add Some Mobile Offerings
Hearst’s UK magazine publisher NatMag is launching what it says is its first ever mobile products – simple mobile websites for just two of i…
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Johnston Press Adding BBC’s Gubbay As Its Digital Content Head
Regional publisher Johnston Press is hiring an editorial online manager as its news digital content head (via HTFP).
Long-time BBC Sport on…
Print Downturn Held Back Digital Growth In 2010, Johnston Reckons
Johnston Press pulled just 3.2 percent more money from its news websites through 2010 – digital revenue hit £18.3 million, the company said…
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Johnston Press Is Seeking A Digital Content Head
Following Lori Cunningham’s exit earlier this year, regional publisher Johnston Press is advertising a new digital content head post.
Johns…
Johnston Press Hit By Job Ad Slump
Johnston Press has reported an ad revenue decline 5.4% in the 18 weeks to 6 November, as declining public sector and recruitment advertising…
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Johnston Press Finds A New Digital Boss
Regional news publisher Johnston Press is picking its Scotsman Publications general manager Henry Faure Walker to be its new digital and bus…
Qype Deal, Mixed Picture For Johnston As Regionals Find More Web Readers
Regional news publisher Johnston Press says January-to-June digital income grew 10.9 percent from last year to £10 million, thanks mainly t…
Johnston Press’ Digital Director Cunningham Leaving
Johnston Press’ digital director Lori Cunningham, who joined in February 2008, is leaving the news publisher next month.
Cunningham had pre…
Johnston’s Web Sales Returning, Blames Election For Stagnant Ads
News publisher Johnston Press’ online commercials are now getting on back to where they were a year ago.
January-to-May digital revenue, fr…
Johnston’s Search Guy Hopkin Heading Digital In Dubai
This is way late, but worth noting since we hadn’t seen it before. Johnston Press’ search engine optimisation evangelist George Hopkin left…
Mobile Content Bits: Scotsman.com, Britain’s Got Talent, Giffgaff
— Scotsman.com: Johnston Press’ paper has got an iPhone app, incorporating digital content and a replica edition subscription, costing £1.…
Johnston’s Local Pay Site Trial Has Been ‘A Disaster’
We could have told Johnston Press, when it announced the plans back in November, that people won’t pay to read local newspapers online. But…
Johnston Seeks An Easy Web Payment System As Its Online Fortunes Dip
Johnston Press’ online revenue fell 11.1 percent to £17.1 million through 2009 – but it’s thanking DMGT’s Jobsite, to which it outsourced i…
Updated: Johnston Press To Charge For Local Papers Online
Update: Johnston CEO John Fry tells Roy Greenslade that the small-scale trial will involve six papers’ sites in small-to-medium size UK town…
Print Round-Up: Johnston Cuts?; Sun Mobile; TV Spending Protests; Mirror’s 3am-Samsung
— Johnston Press: The torrid period of cuts at the UK’s big regional publishers isn’t over at all: Johnston staff fear that a new editorial…
Earnings: Johnston Web Ad Sales Down By Nearly A Fifth
Regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press saw it’s digital advertising revenues slide 18.8 percent in the first half of 2009, showing ther…
Johnston Rejects Scotsman Sale Talk, Launches Hyperlocal Sites
Regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press has poured cold water on rumours that the group is to sell off The Scotsman. Sources tell both T…
Welcome To 2007: Johnston Press Bans Facebook
Can any modern news publishing business justify banning its staff from accessing social networking sites? While many national and regional n…
Refinancing Round-up: Yell Group’s Profits Warning; Tomtom’s Rights Issue Price; Johnston Extension
— Yell Group: The Yellow Pages maker wants to “comprehensively refinance” itself by changing the length and terms of its lending agreements…
Earnings: Johnston Struggles With Ad Outlook As It Abandons Irish Sales
Struggling news publisher Johnston Press has called off the sale of its Irish newspapers, including the Leinster Leader and Tipperary Star,…
Back From Bank Holiday: BMJ Archive, Setanta, Scotsman, ITV CEO
Some of the stories making headlines over the Bank Holiday weekend…
— BMJ free archive: The British Medical Journal has opened a free of…
Print Round-Up: Scotsman Losses; Mecom Debt Extension; Guardian’s Online Legal Service; BBC Mag
— Scotsman losses: Johnston Press is merging its Edinburgh-based papers The Scotsman and Scotland On Sunday after the division posted the f…
Print Bits: Future's Fortunes, Johnston Sell-Offs, Shrewsbury Chronicle
— Future Publishing: Ahead of its October-to-March earnings on May 20, CEO Stevie Spring’s magazine publisher warned its US business will t…
Earnings: Johnston Slashes Its Value, Fears Ads Lost To Online May Not Return
Still chugging through its malaise, Johnston Press has posted a huge loss for 2008 after slashing its own estimated value by half a billion…
Print Round-Up: New AOP Co-Chair; Sport Media Group; Johnston Press
— Association of Online Publishers: The AOP has a new co-chair: Thomson Reuters’ general manager for consumer media Tim Faircliff will take…
Local Journalists Out On Strike As Newspaper Owners Plan Leaner Future
Could the steel-band on the picket line have picked a more appropriate song, to underline the plight facing local newspaper journalists,…
Industry Moves: Johnston Press Board Changes; StudiVZ’s New CEO
— Johnston Press: Three weeks after welcoming its new CEO John Fry following the departure of Tim Bowdler, Johnston Press today announces a…
Print Roundup: Johnston Press; Dennis Publishing; Newspaper Regulation
— Johnston Press: How many many regional newspaper jobs are there left to eradicate? There will soon be considerably less at Johnston Press…
Industry Moves: Fry Takes Johnston Helm, Endemol Adds Brass, Directgov Taps Kerr
— Johnston Press: Former Archant CEO John Fry takes the same position at rival Johnston Press today as planned, replacing outgoing Tim Bowd…
Industry Moves: Johnston’s Bowdler Becomes PA Chairman
Press Association CEO and chairman Paul Potts is redividing the roles, handing the latter to Tim Bowdler, who just stepped down as planned a…
Newspaper Round-Up: Express Ad Sales, HTFP Publisher, Johnston Restructure, Telegraph Writers Leave
— Express: Express Newspapers has appointed online ad seller to handle its web ad sales. Express’ portfolio includes Now! and Star magazine…
Gloom Watch: ClearChannel Layoffs, Johnston Pay Freeze
— ClearChannel: A clear sign the economy is hurting advertising. The ad placer’s outdoor division is axing 80 of its 850 UK staff to put it…
Scotsman.com Ex Editor Gloats On Site Slump: ‘Told You So’
Gloating from the afterlife, former Scotsman.com editor Stewart Kirkpatrick has poured a torrent of “told-you-so” on the news site’s prese…
Earnings: Johnston Sales Indicate Recession, Digital Slowed In Last Few Weeks
Oh dear. The local news business is just getting worse and worse for the UK’s second-biggest regional network Johnston Press. Ad sales betwe…
Johnston Tipped To Take Fry – Out Of Archant And In To The Fire
No announcement to market yet, but FT.com and others reckon Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisher Johnston Press will name Archant top dog J…
Earnings: Johnston Digital Sales Up 52.1 Percent This Year, Dividend Cancelled
The Scotsman publisher Johnston Press’s earnings are a sorry site for a grey, drizzly morning. Yes, the group saw digital revenue grow 52.1…
Round-Up: Johnston Ads, UMG Long Tail, Street View OK’d
— Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk…
Industry Moves: Johnston Press Digital Manager Bradshaw Retiring
You’re reading it here first… Johnston Press digital publishing manager John Bradshaw will retire on Friday after 12 years with the region…
Earnings: UK’s Johnston Takes Big Investment To Off-Set Ad Declines, Debt
Debt-ridden UK regional news publisher Johnston Press is buying (or rather, selling) itself a financial lifeline in the struggling regional…
Earnings: Johnston Sells Off 20 Percent To Off-Set Ad Declines, Debt
Debt-ridden UK regional news publisher Johnston Press is buying (or rather, selling) itself a financial lifeline in the struggling regional…
Earnings: Johnston Press 2007 Year Results Stable; 2008 Ad Markets ‘Challenging’
Reporting 2007 full-year results, regional press group Johnston said that, while print advertising revenues were down in the early weeks of…
Johnston Earnings Preview: No Digital Relaunch; Online Acquisitions Unlikely
Scotsman newspaper publisher Johnston Press has downplayed the prospect of making online-only acquisitions and denied it is about to overhau…
Industry Moves: Johnston Press; NME Radio; Sport1
— Johnston Press: Regional publisher Johnston Press has appointed former AOL (NYSE: TWX) Strategy VP Lori Cunningham as its new digital str…
Johnston Pledges Rapid 2008 Digital Investment Despite Financial Worries
Regional news publisher Johnston Press reckons digital revenues will have increased 35.3 percent in its half-year to December 31 by the time…
Industry Moves: Scotsman Head Of Content; BBC’s Williams Leaving; Ariande Capital
— Scotsman: The Scotsman is the latest paper to stake its cross-media staffing credentials, hiring a head of content to sit across newsgath…
Johnston Press Enthusiastic On Multi-Platform In Online Investment
Johnston Press CEO Tim Dowdler gave The Independent some more detail on the planned £10 million digital investment from Britain’s biggest r…
