Digital subscription growth offers respite to news giants battered by Covid-19
News Corp yesterday rounded off a bleak week of financial reports from the journalism industry’s biggest companies, reporting a 22%…
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Times pays damages after paywalled article’s preview showed ‘libellous imputation’
The Times has been forced to pay damages after the headline and preview of an article seen by non-subscribers outside…
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Ten years of the Times digital paywall: How Murdoch’s ‘big gamble’ paid off
It is now ten years since the Times launched its online subscription model, putting all of its content behind a…
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Times Radio launch-day verdict: A cautious thumbs-up for Rupert Murdoch’s alternative to Radio 4
Launching a new national talk-based radio station in the midst of a pandemic lockdown could not have been easy. But…
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News UK launches Times Radio with Boris Johnson’s ‘first sit-down broadcast interview since lockdown’
Times Radio launched with what it described as an exclusive Boris Johnson interview. The prime minister was interviewed by Aasmah…
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Covid-19 crisis drives more than a million new digital subs for leading news providers
Ten of the biggest newspaper groups in the US and UK have collectively gained more than 1m new digital subscriptions…
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News industry set for £50m-a-year boost from VAT cut on digital publications
The UK’s newspaper and magazine industry stands to be at least £50m-a-year better off after a Government move to cut…
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Times Radio to shun public phone-ins and ‘adversarial’ interview style
Times Radio will shun listener phone-ins and avoid the “old fashioned adversarial approach” to interviews seen elsewhere, it revealed today.…
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