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This is an archive of news about Shape. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Psychologies rival Shape to close after three issues
From Press Gazette. Posted June 3 2008, 12.00am
Contract publisher River Publishing is closing its first consumer magazine, women's monthly Shape, after just three issues, blaming the deterioration in the economy. (more)

Editor&Publisher: Mobile journalists changing shape of the newsroom
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 22 2008, 10.15am
Report on the impact of mobile journalism on US newspapers, which balances the highly publicised positives with a few key negatives. In particular, one 'mojo' kit for the Democrat & Chronicle paper costs $14,800 to run. (more)

Shape 'made me feel rubbish'
From Press Gazette. Posted April 30 2008, 12.00am
Expert Eye: Gill Hudson, editor of the Radio Times, sizes up Shape’s potential in the competitive women’s monthly market (more)

‘Women’s market in good enough shape for launch’
From Press Gazette. Posted March 23 2008, 12.00am
Customer magazines publisher River Publishing is making the break into the consumer market with the launch of a new women’s monthly to rival Psychologies. (more)

Reed reshapes to focus on online businesses
From Financial Times. Posted February 21 2008, 8.43am
Anglo-Dutch group pays $4.1bn to acquire ChoicePoint, a US-based insurance information provider, and will sell Reed Business Information as it seeks to cut exposure to print and advertising (more)

European research project to shape next generation Internet TV
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 20 2008, 2.40pm
P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media content providers and research institutions, has received a €14 million grant from the European Union. The grant will enable the conglomerate to carry out a research project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology for Internet Television of the future. The partners, including the [...] (more)

Mulholland reshapes Observer team
From Media Guardian. Posted January 3 2008, 11.59am
The new Observer editor, John Mulholland, has made a raft of changes in his first week in the job. By Stephen Brook (more)

Hinton starts to shape Dow Jones team
From Media Guardian. Posted December 18 2007, 5.37pm
Incoming Dow Jones boss Les Hinton has hired News International's corporate development director. By Stephen Brook (more)

Ralph Bernard leaves GCap in good shape, say analysts
From Media Guardian. Posted November 23 2007, 1.42pm
Ralph Bernard is leaving GCap Media in good shape, according to City analysts, who feel it is the right time to hand the reins to a younger and more tech-savvy successor. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons (more)

Relationship between operators and media will shape future of mobile news content, says market analyst
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted November 8 2007, 12.00am
Brad Rees, managing director of Mediacells, talks to Journalism.co.uk about the future of mobile news content    (more)

Express swaps broadsheet look for tabloid shape
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 20 2007, 12.00am
Weekly relaunches after in-paper vote showed demand for change (more)

External services of Bangladesh Betar in bad shape
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 16 2007, 10.00am
The external services of Bangladesh Betar, which are aired on shortwave in Bengali and five other languages, are now in a miserable condition due to degradation of the quality of signals from its old shortwave transmitter, according to an offiicial of Bangladesh Betar speaking to The New Nation.  The external services had become popular in India, [...] (more)

BARB Issues Blueprint for Future Shape
From Merry Media. Posted August 2 2006, 3.55pm
BARB is issuing its blueprint for the future shape of the service on August 1st 2006 - the 25th anniversary of the start of reporting of viewing data by BARB. As part of its formal process for awarding its new research contracts (to start January 2010) BARB is making available its 'Request for Proposals' document to potential suppliers. Proposals and indicative tenders will be received in December 2006. Invitations to tender are expected to be issued in spring 2007, for final tenders in summer 2007, with the award of contracts planned for the end of 2007.. (more)

EC plans for European Digital Library taking shape
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 6 2006, 4.20pm
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How The Apprentice changed the shape of reality TV
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
And then there were two. Tonight, shortly before 10pm, Sir Alan Sugar will stroke his designer stubble, exhale grumpily, and answer a question that has dominated dinner-party chat for almost three months: who will be his next apprentice? (more)