Industry News

Metro to launch website

Metro is to expand its online presence with the launch of a major new website aimed at urban professionals. The free daily newspaper will next week unveil a major relaunch of its website, introducing more celebrity and real-life...

Al Jazeera demands correction from Times

by Joe Lepper Brand Republic 15 Feb 2006 12:35

LONDON - Al Jazeera is demanding a correction from The Times after the newspaper accused the TV network of producing inflammatory and biased coverage of the British troops abuse...

Spectator - Quentin Letts

Dacre heads off staff defection

The Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre, has succeeded in staving off another damaging defection, keeping sketch writer Quentin Letts in the fold with the offer of a new column. Letts was in the running...

Express and Star buoyed by price cuts

Price cuts and an extensive TV advertising campaign boosted the circulation of Richard Desmond's Daily Express and Daily Star last month. The Express had one of the best newspaper sales increases in January, up 6.07% to 849,001...

Murdoch takes $99m hit in print shake-up

By Stephen Foley in New York Published: 09 February 2006 News Corporation, the media giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said yesterday that advertising revenues from its British newspapers were sluggish and that it will take a...