Business

24th January 2012

Leveson inquiry: BBC spent £310,000 on investigators from 2005 to 2011

Director general admits BBC has used convicted PI Steve Whittamore and sought to get confidential DVLA information (Guardian)
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21st December 2011

Record Tablet Sales Could Give Battered Newspaper Industry Hope

Amid plunging readership of traditional print newspapers, tablets may provide a beacon of hope for beleaguered newspapers (International Business Times)
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21st December 2011

Reader's Digest Association Cuts 150 Jobs Worldwide

Aims focus on ‘master brands,’ including Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home (Folio)
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21st December 2011

UBM seeks new chairman

FTSE 250 trade show organiser UBM has begun the hunt for a new chairman ... (Independent)
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21st December 2011

New York Times to sell its regional newspapers for $145m

It is a further indication that the company is divesting itself of assets to concentrate on its core newspaper business (Guardian)
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13th December 2011

Pearson to sell FTSE stake for £450m

Financial Times and Penguin owner Pearson to sell 50% stake in FTSE International group in shift from financial data (Guardian)
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8th December 2011

Trinity Mirror creates new publishing business

Trinity Mirror is to combine the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and sister company Scottish and Universal Newspapers ... (Features Exec)
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8th December 2011

What a Facebook IPO Could Mean For Publishers

Influences from shareholders could help the company triumph, or falter. (Folio)
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1st December 2011

Financial Times sees content beating print ads

The FT expects print advertising revenues to be overtaken by subscription and cover price sales for the first time this year (Reuters)
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24th November 2011

Future Publishing reports £19m loss

Magazine publisher Future cancels dividend until 2013 after £19.3m loss (Guardian)
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