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By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2012
The Guardian has said it may be forced to make compulsory redundancies as its efforts to persuade journalists to leave voluntarily have failed. It was seeking up to 100 voluntary redundancies but only 30 or so people signed up. According to the FT it wants to save £7m from its current editorial budget of £69m [...]
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By Stephen Foster on October 16, 2012
Sources at the Guardian newspaper say that, for the first time, canning the print edition and switching to a completely digital product is now being seriously discussed at the top levels of Guardian News & Media. Long-serving Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger (left) is said to be increasingly isolated in his desire to retain a print [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2012
Guardian digital revenues increased by 16.3 per cent in the year to April but owner Guardian News & Media (which also owns the Observer and chunks of Auto Trader and Top Right Group, formerly Emap) still reported a stonking operating loss of £44.2m , up from £31.1m. GMG is desperately trying to cut costs on [...]
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By Stuart Smith on March 5, 2012
‘The Three Little Pigs.’ directed by Ringan Ledwidge, is the best piece of advertising to come out of BBH in a very long time. More to the point, it’s also the best piece of advertising to come out of The Guardian, whose bar in these matters is very high. Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, explaining the ad’s [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, bbh, boase massimi pollitt ad 1986, open journalism, Paul Weiland, points of view, repositioning, Ringan Ledwidge, Stuart Smith, the guardian, the whole picture, three little pigs
By Stephen Foster on August 8, 2011
A week ago we asked where the money was coming from to help the loss-making Guardian newspaper and online group survive the next few years as it tries to find a workable print model and finally earn some profits from its successful (in reader numbers anyway) Guardian Online website. And the answer is: Auto Trader, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, apax partners, auto trader, emap, guardian, guardian online, John Madejski, losses, observer, reading fc
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2011
And if that sounds Double Dutch it’s probably because it is. New Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller has announced that he is to cut £25m of print costs as the perennially loss-making paper faces the prospect of running out of money “in three to five years.” Last year the company lost £35m as advertising [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, Daily Telegraph, evening paper, guardian, guardian media group, guardian online, losses, online ad model, paywall, the times
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2011
The deckchairs on the Titanic, aka Guardian Media Group, were reshuffled again today with managing director Tim Brooks, in years gone by one of the founders of Media Week, being made redundant. This is presumably part of new CEO Andrew Miller’s policy of cutting back GMG’s expansionary ambitions, which at one time took in commercial [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Alan Rusbridger, Andrew Miller, guardian, guardian media group, guardian unlimited, manchester guardian, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, scott trust, Tim Brooks
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