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News&Observer.com: News&Observer reader sues title for staff cuts
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 14 2008, 12.59pm
One of the paper's readers is suing the News & Observer in North Carolina following a series of staff cuts and reductions in news pages. Lawyer Keith Hempstead filed the complaint stating that the changes had breached the paper's contract with him. (more)

Charity's fury over Observer report on undiscovered tribe
From Press Gazette. Posted July 2 2008, 12.00am
Development charity Survival International today launched an extraordinary attack on Observer foreign editor Peter Beaumont by posting a sound file on its website of a phone call in which he threatens to sue them. (more)

Analysys Mason Acquires Leading Software Research Firm OSS Observer LLC
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted June 26 2008, 5.20pm
LONDON, UK, 26 JUNE 2008 ? Analysys Mason (www.analysysmason.com), the premier adviser to the telecoms, ICT and digital media industry, has acquired OSS Observer LLC, a US-based telecoms software market research firm delivering global telecoms software market analysis to vendors, operators, integrators and the financial community. OSS Observer is the leading global analyst firm within the telecoms software market, providing market share estimates, forecasts and in-depth analyses of trends in the sector. Analysts cover billing,... (more)

Football: Will Buckley: Shoot! Closed Down! What next? The Observer?
From Media Guardian. Posted June 17 2008, 4.14pm
After 39 years of service, Shoot!'s demise means no more of their legendary questionnaires, writes Will Buckley (more)

Telegraph's Toby Helm joins Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted June 11 2008, 3.23pm
The Daily Telegraph's public policy editor, Toby Helm, has been appointed as the Observer's new Whitehall editor. By Ben Dowell (more)

Guardian/Observer merger - four out of five new heads of content are Guardian section editors
From Press Gazette. Posted June 11 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media has appointed five new senior, platform-neutral editors who will oversee coverage in news, business, sport and consumer news for the Guardian, Observer and Guardian.co.uk - four of whom are existing Guardian section... (more)

Guardian/Observer integration - four out of five heads of content are Guardian section editors
From Press Gazette. Posted June 11 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media has appointed five new senior, platform-neutral editors who will oversee coverage in news, business, sport and consumer news for the Guardian, Observer and Guardian.co.uk - four of whom are existing Guardian section... (more)

Observer: Online ‘news’ threatening principles of political reporting
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 9 2008, 9.35am
Mainstream media must remember to 'investigate first, report later' when dealing with political rumours reported online, says John Naughton. "...'mainstream' media have discovered that their new symbiotic relationship with the blogosphere sucks them into a downward spiral and an underworld of innuendo, lies and propaganda," he warns. (more)

May ABCs: Observer on the rise as quality rivals fall
From Media Guardian. Posted June 6 2008, 12.47pm
The Observer bucked the trend in a declining Sunday quality market to see its headline circulation rise 0.53% year on year. By Stephen Brook (more)

Sunday ABCs: Observer is only Sunday to put on sales in May
From Press Gazette. Posted June 6 2008, 12.00am
The Observer was the only national Sunday paper to report a year-on-year rise in circulation, according to officially audited ABC figures for the month of May. (more)

Sunday ABCs: Observer only Sunday to grow year on year
From Press Gazette. Posted June 6 2008, 12.00am
The Observer was the only national Sunday paper to report a year-on-year rise in circulation, according to officially audited ABC figures for the month of May. (more)

Scottish Catholic Observer to Relaunch
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted May 29 2008, 7.59am
Scotland’s only national Catholic newspaper is to relaunch next month. Says Liz Leydon, the new editor of the Scottish Catholic Observer: “We are moving with the times, continuing to set the agenda while staying fresh and relevant in our readers’ lives. We are... (more)

The Observer profile: Monty Don
From Media Guardian. Posted May 24 2008, 11.01pm
Profile: Monty Don has inspired millions with his passion for gardening. Little wonder news of his stroke threw his fans into consternation (more)

AIRCOM Tops OSS Observer Network Engineering Rankings
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted May 20 2008, 10.00am
20 May 2008, Leatherhead, UK ? Independent mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy AIRCOM International, has been named the market leading supplier of engineering tools to operators by global telecom software market analysis house, OSS Observer.� The recently published OSS Observer Service Fulfilment Market Review report reveals that AIRCOM International currently has a 19% share of a $542 million market.� By tracking revenues for products and other related professional services, it estimates AIRCOM?s 2007 engineering... (more)

Press Gazette: Rusbridger says integration of Guardian and Observer will ‘unlock creativity’ of staff
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 19 2008, 11.30am
The independence of the Guardian's three national titles - Guardian.co.uk, Observer and Guardian in print - will not be compromised by the integration of the news production process across the titles, editor Alan Rusbridger told the Press Gazette. Speaking ahead of a meeting tomorrow with staff to discuss the future of the newspapers, Rusbridger claimed that combining the titles would 'unlock the creativity' of his staff but that the distinct voices of each title would remain. (more)

Rusbridger:integration of Guardian and Observer will 'unlock creativity' of staff
From Press Gazette. Posted May 19 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media's decision to create a single merged team to work across The Guardian, The Observer and Guardian.co.uk will maintain the independence of all three platforms, according to editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. (more)

Rusbridger: Integration of Guardian and Observer will 'unlock creativity' of staff
From Press Gazette. Posted May 19 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media's decision to create a single merged team to work across The Guardian, The Observer and Guardian.co.uk will maintain the independence of all three platforms, according to editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. (more)

Jo Revill exits Observer for government job
From Media Guardian. Posted May 13 2008, 3.17pm
Jo Revill is leaving the Observer after more than five years to work for health secretary Alan Johnson. By Stephen Brook (more)

Johnny Vegas sues Guardian and Observer over 'grope' story
From Press Gazette. Posted May 12 2008, 12.00am
Comedian Johnny Vegas has begun libel proceedings against Guardian News & Media over two articles which claimed he had molested a woman during a stand-up performance. (more)

The Times's Rajeev Syal joins the Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted May 9 2008, 6.38am
The Observer has hired Rajeev Syal from the Times to be its investigations editor. By Stephen Brook (more)

Single news, business and sport team set to work across Guardian and Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted May 9 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media has today released plans of how it will merge staff into a single team working across The Guardian, The Observer and guardian.co.uk. (more)

March ABCs: Observer is only Sunday paper to show year-on-year growth
From Media Guardian. Posted April 11 2008, 12.25pm
The Observer made further circulation gains in March, making it the only Sunday newspaper to record a year-on-year rise last month. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Award-winning Observer editor to take helm at Independent
From The Independent. Posted April 10 2008, 8.47am
Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent and Independent on Sunday for the past 10 years, has been appointed Managing Director and Editor-in Chief of the titles. (more)

Iliffe News and Media launches Nuneaton weekly with Observer Standard Newspapers
From Press Gazette. Posted March 25 2008, 12.00am
Iliffe News and Media has joined forces with Observer Standard Newspapers to launch a new weekly free The Nuneaton Observer. (more)

Media observers sceptical about BBC Arabic launch
From Press Gazette. Posted March 10 2008, 12.00am
?The BBC faces “significant difficulties” in winning the Arab world over when it launches its TV news channel next week, according to media experts on the region. (more)

Observer lone riser of Sunday papers
From Media Guardian. Posted March 7 2008, 2.08pm
February ABCs: The Observer continued to make circulation gains, the only Sunday newspaper to record a year-on-year rise. By Stephen Brook (more)

Coman named Observer foreign editor
From Media Guardian. Posted February 28 2008, 12.01pm
The Observer has hired the Independent's home news editor, Julian Coman, to become the paper's foreign editor. By Tara Conlan (more)

GNM sells Money Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted February 22 2008, 11.01am
Guardian News and Media has sold investment magazine Money Observer to Moneywise Publishing. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Moneywise Publising aquire Money Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted February 22 2008, 12.00am
Moneywise Publishing has acquired monthly consumer finance magazine Money Observer from Guardian News and Media after GNM said the title no longer fitted with its core strategy. (more)

Moneywise Publishing aquires Money Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted February 22 2008, 12.00am
Moneywise Publishing has acquired monthly consumer finance magazine Money Observer from Guardian News and Media after GNM said the title no longer fitted with its core strategy. (more)

Observer appeal beats charity target by �3,500
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 30 2008, 7.35am
Chichester Observer helps dreams come true for seriously and terminally-ill children (more)

Sales jump by 1,500 with bulk purchase of Observer special edition
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 17 2008, 12.00am
Local school boosts sales figures after daily features pupil-penned newsletter (more)

Alton: merged editorial teams needed at Guardian and Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted January 10 2008, 12.00am
Some merging of the Guardian and Observer editorial teams is now essential, acccording to former Observer editor Roger Alton. (more)

Observer breaks exclusive bird flu story online
From Press Gazette. Posted January 10 2008, 12.00am
The Observer today posted a rare web-first exclusive story about the discovery of three birds with a lethal strain of bird flu on Guardian Unlimited. (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)

Jaspar Gerard out in Observer reshuffle
From Press Gazette. Posted January 3 2008, 12.00am
In his first week as editor, John Mulholland has announced a shake-up of The Observer editorial team. (more)

Jasper Gerard out in Observer reshuffle
From Press Gazette. Posted January 3 2008, 12.00am
In his first week as editor, John Mulholland has announced a shake-up of The Observer editorial team. (more)

Observer columnist Mary Riddell joins Telegraph
From Press Gazette. Posted December 18 2007, 12.00am
The Observer’s Mary Riddell has joined the Daily Telegraph as an assistant editor and weekly columnist. (more)

Observer defies downward trend
From Media Guardian. Posted December 7 2007, 1.55pm
November ABCs: The Observer continued to defy the downward circulation trend for Sunday quality newspapers. By Jemima Kiss (more)

November ABCs: Observer bucks quality Sunday trend
From Press Gazette. Posted December 7 2007, 12.00am
The Observer was the only one of the “big four” quality Sunday papers to post a year-on-year circulation increase in November – but the title was significantly down on the previous month. (more)

Observer union chapel accepts GNM's 24/7 deal
From Media Guardian. Posted December 3 2007, 11.48am
The Observer union chapel has voted in favour of an 'enabling deal' that backs publisher Guardian News & Media's 24/7 integration plans. By Stephen Brook (more)

Observer hires Guardian columnist Catherine Bennett
From Media Guardian. Posted November 30 2007, 11.21am
Incoming Observer editor John Mulholland has made his first appointment, hiring sister paper the Guardian's star columnist Catherine Bennett. By Stephen Brook (more)

UTalkMarketing founder in Observer ?Rising Star? list
From UTalk Marketing. Posted November 26 2007, 10.20am
Company listed as one to watch (more)

Sue Arnold pays tribute to the former Observer finance editor
From Media Guardian. Posted November 25 2007, 12.00am
Sue Arnold pays tribute to the former Observer finance editor Joanna Slaughter, who died recently (more)

October ABCs: Observer escapes Sundays' slide
From Media Guardian. Posted November 9 2007, 2.47pm
The Observer bucked the downward sales trend in the Sunday quality market, increasing circulation by 0.15% year on year. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Alton praised for turning round ‘shaky’ Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted November 2 2007, 12.00am
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has praised outgoing Observer editor Roger Alton for turning around a paper that was “frankly a bit shaky”. (more)

Observer Editor quits over integration plan
From Daily Telegraph. Posted October 26 2007, 12.01am
The resignation of Roger Alton, the award winning editor of The Observer, has thrust into the open a long running feud over the direction and profitability of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. (more)

'Mr Modesty' Mulholland steps up at the Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted October 25 2007, 1.50pm
Profile: John Mulholland, 44, is the first Irish editor of a UK national newspaper - and possibly the most self-effacing. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Power struggle claims 'Observer' editor
From The Independent. Posted October 25 2007, 12.30am
The future independence of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper was thrown into doubt last night after The Observer's editor quit unexpectedly following a bitter falling-out with senior figures at the title's sister paper, The Guardian. (more)

Alton to step down after nearly a decade as editor of Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted October 24 2007, 11.36pm
Roger Alton, editor of the Observer for almost a decade, yesterday announced he would step down at the end of the year. (more)

Alton quits as Observer editor
From Financial Times. Posted October 24 2007, 7.16pm
Process of integrating print and online editions of the Guardian, Observer and Guardian Unlimited website prompts decision (more)

Editor Alton to leave Observer after 10 years
From Media Guardian. Posted October 24 2007, 1.00am
6pm: Roger Alton, the editor of the Observer, is stepping down at the end of the year, to be replaced by his deputy, John Mulholland. (more)

Alton to step down as Observer editor
From Press Gazette. Posted October 24 2007, 12.00am
Roger Alton is to step as editor of The Observer at the end of the year and will be succeeded by John Mulholland, who is currently deputy editor. (more)

Alton: straight-talking editor who took Observer out of choppy waters
From Press Gazette. Posted October 24 2007, 12.00am
When Press Gazette interviewed Roger Alton as he relaunched the Observer in Berliner-size last January he gave no hint that he had any thoughts about stepping down. (more)

Straight-talking editor who turned Observer around
From Press Gazette. Posted October 24 2007, 12.00am
When Press Gazette interviewed Roger Alton as he relaunched the Observer in Berliner-size last January he gave no hint that he had any thoughts about stepping down. (more)

Alton: Straight-talking editor who turned Observer around
From Press Gazette. Posted October 24 2007, 12.00am
When Press Gazette interviewed Roger Alton as he relaunched the Observer in Berliner-size last January he gave no hint that he had any thoughts about stepping down. (more)

Guardian and Observer to launch online archive
From Media Guardian. Posted October 15 2007, 1.00am
Every edition ever of the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to be made available via an online digital archive. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Entire Guardian and Observer archives go online
From Press Gazette. Posted October 15 2007, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media is to make its entire archive, 212 years of material, available online as a paid-for service. (more)

September ABCs: Observer shines in tough climate
From Media Guardian. Posted October 12 2007, 1.00am
September ABCs: The Observer bucked the downward sales trend in the Sunday quality market as sales rose 3.1% year on year. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Kamal Ahmed to leave the Observer and join Human Rights Commission
From Media Guardian. Posted October 9 2007, 1.00am
5.30pm: Kamal Ahmed, the executive editor, news, at the Observer, is leaving the paper to join the new Equality and Human Rights Commission. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Kamal Ahmed leaves The Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted October 9 2007, 12.00am
Observer executive editor news Kamal Ahmed has left the paper to work for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. (more)

Losses again at Guardian and Observer - profits down at GMG regional titles
From Press Gazette. Posted August 1 2007, 12.00am
The Guardian and Observer titles and associated websites lost £15.9m in the year to April – a slight improvement on last year’s operating loss before exceptional items of £15.9 million. (more)

Tim Lewis appointed Observer Sport Monthly editor
From Media Guardian. Posted July 30 2007, 1.00am
Tim Lewis, a former section editor at the Independent on Sunday, is the new editor of the Observer's Sport Monthly magazine. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Indy man bags Observer Sport Monthly job
From Press Gazette. Posted July 30 2007, 12.00am
Tim Lewis - formerly editor of the Independent’s Sunday Review has been named as the new editor of Observer Sport Monthly and will join the paper in September. (more)

Watford Observer apologises to local football club
From Press Gazette. Posted June 15 2007, 12.00am
The Watford Observer today published a front and back page apology to Watford Football Club over a story claiming the club was being mismanaged. (more)

Observer editor Roger Alton backs 'perceptive' Tony Blair speech
From Media Guardian. Posted June 12 2007, 1.00am
Reaction: Observer editor Roger Alton today praised Tony Blair's speech on the media. By Stephen Brook. (more)

GNM parts company with Observer ad agency Mother London
From Media Guardian. Posted June 7 2007, 1.00am
Guardian News and Media has ended its five-year relationship with the Observer's ad agency Mother London. By Mark Sweney. (more)

GNM and Observer ad agency Mother London part company
From Media Guardian. Posted June 7 2007, 1.00am
Guardian News and Media has ended its five-year relationship with the Observer's ad agency Mother London. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Watford FC to take legal action over back page Observer report
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 18 2007, 12.00am
Relegated club claims newspaper "failed in its journalistic duty and responsibility" (more)

Observer's Peter Beaumont wins George Orwell prize
From Media Guardian. Posted April 25 2007, 1.00am
The Observer's foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont, has won the George Orwell prize for journalism. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Roadworks nightmare prompts Observer campaign
From Hold the Front Page. Posted April 16 2007, 12.00am
Initiative is backed by city traders, residents and their local MP (more)

Observer Standard's launches plugs free paper gap
From Press Gazette. Posted April 2 2007, 2.00pm
Observer Standard Newspapers has launched two new free titles, the Evesham Observer and the Cotswolds Observer. (more)

Observer named National Newspaper of the Year
From Press Gazette. Posted March 26 2007, 9.46pm
The Observer has been named National Newspaper of the Year at the British Press Awards (more)

Buhagiar takes editor's post at Observer and Review
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 20 2007, 12.00am
Luton on Sunday man is hoping to boost off-diary exclusives as he moves to new titles (more)

Observer experiments with web-first strategy
From Press Gazette. Posted February 9 2007, 3.45pm
The Observer has begun experimenting with a web-first strategy for news. (more)

Observer website breaks exclusive on Suffolk bird flu story
From Media Guardian. Posted February 9 2007, 12.00am
The Observer's website has broken an exclusive news story on a week day for the first time. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Mirror and Observer suffer sharp falls in tough November
From Brand Republic. Posted December 8 2006, 12.12pm
LONDON - As Trinity Mirror prepares to reveal the outcome of its strategic review next week there was bad news for the Daily Mirror, as its sales dropped 3.18% in November, making it the biggest faller among the national dailies. In the Sunday market The Observer suffered an almost 8% fall. (more)

Family murder story prompts record sale for Accrington Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted November 23 2006, 12.00pm
The weekly Accrington Observer hit record sales on the back of a tragic story of a family murdered in an arson attack. (more)

Chichester Observer's Newbery walks to the pavilion after 14 years' service
From Press Gazette. Posted November 9 2006, 1.46pm
Executive editor of the Observer group in Chichester Keith Newbery has retired. (more)

Barker slams "tabloid intrusion" in Bexhill Observer exclusive
From Press Gazette. Posted October 27 2006, 1.21pm
Tory MP Greg Barker has hit out against “tabloid intrusion” following front page revelations that he left his wife for a man. (more)

Observer hires Sunday Times columnist Jasper Gerard
From Media Guardian. Posted October 6 2006, 1.00am
6pm: The Observer has hired columnist Jasper Gerard from the Sunday Times. By Stephen Brook. (more)

The Herts and Essex Observer praised by killed girls' parents
From Press Gazette. Posted October 5 2006, 12.00am
The Herts and Essex Observer has been praised by the parents of two teenage girls who were killed by a speeding train, after its campaign helped force Network Rail to install a gate locking system. (more)

Herts and Essex Observer praised by killed girls' parents
From Press Gazette. Posted October 5 2006, 12.00am
The Herts and Essex Observer has been praised by the parents of two teenage girls who were killed by a speeding train, after its campaign helped force Network Rail to install a gate locking system. (more)

Observer sticks ad notes on magazine front covers
From Brand Republic. Posted September 29 2006, 11.09am
LONDON - The Observer has sold a media first to Oxfam in the form of a sticky note, similar to a Post-It Note, tacked onto the front cover of this weekend's Observer Sport Monthly. (more)

Independent and Observer record readership boosts
From Brand Republic. Posted September 18 2006, 9.09am
LONDON - All national dailies have seen a decline in readership over the past six months, with the exception of The Independent, according to the latest figures from the National Readership Survey. (more)

Kentish Saturday Observer adds Review section
From Press Gazette. Posted August 16 2006, 11.00pm
The Kentish Saturday Observer is expanding its editorial, with the launch of a new leisure, lifestyle and property magazine supplement. (more)

New owner for NY Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted August 1 2006, 9.01am
After being on the market for many months, the New York Observer has finally a new owner. (more)

Observer up 7% year on year
From Media Guardian. Posted July 14 2006, 4.14pm
ABCs: The Observer celebrated the six-month anniversary of its redesign with a year-on-year circulation rise of nearly 7%. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Sunderland promises to tackle big business issues at Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted July 6 2006, 12.00am
The Observer’s new business editor, Ruth Sunderland, has said she will focus on big themes such as energy issues, pension provision and developing markets when she takes over the role after the summer. (more)

Sunderland quits Mail for Observer
From Media Guardian. Posted July 4 2006, 10.33am
The Observer has hired Ruth Sunderland from the Daily Mail to be its new business editor. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Sunderland succeeds Kane as Observer City editor
From Press Gazette. Posted July 3 2006, 6.37pm
Daily Mail deputy City editor Ruth Sunderland is to be the Observer's new business editor. (more)

Guardian and Observer win Amnesty accolades
From Media Guardian. Posted June 28 2006, 8.25am
The Guardian and the Observer won at last night's annual Amnesty International media awards in London. (more)

Guardian and Observer win race coverage awards
From Media Guardian. Posted June 15 2006, 8.18am
The Guardian and the Observer both won prizes last night at the Race in the Media awards. By Owen Gibson. (more)

ABC cheer for Observer and Sindy
From Media Guardian. Posted May 12 2006, 2.58pm
April ABCs: The Observer and Independent on Sunday were today celebrating April's circulation figures as sales for both papers showed healthy rises. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Observer launches food podcast
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 4 2006, 11.15pm
Sunday broadsheet sponsors series of recordings of a top Italian chef (more)

Observer outburst shows 'Blair is ignorant of law'
From Press Gazette. Posted May 4 2006, 12.00am
Leading civil rights lawyer Helena Kennedy has claimed that Tony Blair’s email comments to an Observer columnist demonstrated “he had forgotten any law he learned”. (more)

Huma Qureshi appointed new staff writer at Observer Money
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 30 2006, 4.40pm
Observer intern makes a move to the finance section (more)

Kane set to step down as Observer business editor
From Press Gazette. Posted April 27 2006, 12.00am
After five years as Observer business editor, Frank Kane is planning to step down to take up a new writing role. (more)

Harrow Observer scoops Norman Kember interview
From Press Gazette. Posted April 6 2006, 12.00am
The Harrow Observer scooped the nationals last week by securing an interview with freed hostage Norman Kember. (more)

Watford Observer column was racist, says its former journalist
From Press Gazette. Posted March 23 2006, 12.00am
An MP has made a formal complaint against the Watford Observer on behalf of his constituent Paul Rees, who used to be a journalist on the paper. (more)

Bad news for GNL as Guardian and Observer fall
From Brand Republic. Posted March 10 2006, 12.03pm
LONDON – The new-look Guardian and Observer flagged in February, with their circulation declines of 3.03% and 10.65% respectively standing out amid the quality newspaper market's dismal performance in the ABC figures, which also contained bad news for the Daily Mirror. (more)

January ABCs: Observer up 21 per cent following relaunch to 542,000 sales
From Press Gazette. Posted February 10 2006, 12.19pm
Official circulation figures forJanuary show the Observer’s Berliner-size relaunch to have been a massive success – boosting sales by more than 20 per cent year-on-year. (more)

Berliner relaunch proves to be a big hit as Observer leaps 25%
From Brand Republic. Posted February 10 2006, 12.02pm
LONDON – The Observer's Berliner relaunch has proved a resounding success as its sales soared by more than a quarter from December, passing the half million mark to reach almost 550,000 copies in the January newspaper ABC figures. (more)

Observer Woman seeks male readers with GSOH
From Press Gazette. Posted January 19 2006, 12.00am
New supplement’s editor rejects fashion pages and says GQ-style humour will encourage men to read it too (more)

Roger Alton: The Observer editor on the relaunch of the world's oldest Sunday paper
From The Independent. Posted January 9 2006, 12.00am
Late on Sunday morning, the relaunched Observer is in the shops and its editor, Roger Alton, is a touch hoarse. He's been plugging his new full-colour bulked-up Berliner-style paper on Andrew Marr's BBC1 show - jockeying for airtime with Tony Blair, Ann Robinson, and The Sun's political editor George Pascoe-Watson - and he just has to sweat it out to see if the switch in format is accompanied by a boost at the news stand. (more)

Full colour will put Observer back in black, says Alton
From Press Gazette. Posted January 5 2006, 12.36am
Editor says Observer support for ‘likeable bloke’ Cameron is not inconceivable (more)

Observer confirms 8 January Berliner relaunch
From Press Gazette. Posted December 19 2005, 11.11am
The Observer has confirmed plans to follow the Guardian and relaunch in Berliner format on 8 January. (more)

Express's Rock quits for Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted March 25 2004, 12.00am
Lucy Rock, deputy news editor of the Daily Express, is take up the same role at The Observer. (more)