Newspaper industry news

Phone hacking victims reject newspapers' charter proposal
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 20:48
Culture secretary Maria Miller has been urged not to permit the press industry to 'write its own rulebook'... (more)

Profits rise at Telegraph Media Group as market share grows
From The Telegraph. Posted 23 May 2013, 19:32
Pre-tax profit at Telegraph Media Group, publishers of The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, and Telegraph.co.uk, rose last year by 5pc to £57.2m as market share for circulation and advertising increased, and digital revenues grew significantly.&nb... (more)

Daily Mail owner looks to B2B publishing for growth
From The Telegraph. Posted 23 May 2013, 18:08
Growth in its B2B information businesses helped Daily Mail & General Trust increase profits more than two and a half times in the first half, following one-off charges last year.    ... (more)

Pearson folds FT into Chinese English schools business
From The Telegraph. Posted 23 May 2013, 18:07
FT Group, which publishes The Financial Times, will be subsumed into a new division with adult English language schools in China in a reorganisation intended to put growth markets at the top of parent company Pearson's agenda.    ... (more)

On Woolwich, British media could learn from Swedish riots coverage
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 17:55
Andrew Brown: It brings its own problems but Swedish media's refusal to obsess over violent incidents may reduce the chance they will spread (more)

Press regulation: six select committee MPs oppose alternative for watchdog
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 15:52
Labour and Liberal Democrats have written to culture secretary about rival royal charter being put forward by Pressbof. By Lisa O'Carroll (more)

Mystical light that occurs only a few days every year captured in a series of stunning images
From Daily Mail. Posted 23 May 2013, 15:26
The stunning light at Keyhole Arch, Pfeiffer Beach, California, happens only for a few weeks every year when the sun sets at the correct angle and the tide is at the right height.... (more)

David Montgomery's 'robot' journalism will terminate both jobs and local news
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 15:13
Michelle Stanistreet: The Local World chief's plan to remove the 'human interface' from publishing is a nightmare vision of journalism's future (more)

Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 15:09
Report re-ignites war of words over death of 12-year-old al-Dura in Gaza in 2000 by claiming the incident was staged (more)

Readers recommend: songs about magazines – results
From Media Guardian. Posted 23 May 2013, 15:00
RR Regular Makinavaja picks the playlist from last week's thread about glossies both coffee table and top shelf (more)