Germany: We explain the economy, a new Focus e-paper
To explain the world of economy to teachers and schoolchildren, its new target group, German Burda’s Focus-Money magazine arm will launch on 15 January 2007 a monthly e-paper called “We explain the economy” (in German: Wir erklären die Wirtschaft), Focus-Money’s 3rd e-paper. The magazine will be dealing with issues such as tax, insurance and state finance topics, as well as with schoolchildren’s private world issues such as mobile radio tariffs and side-line jobs. As cooperation partner, German ThyssenKrupp [a large steel and engineering group] is supporting the innovative project thus extending its technics-oriented education initiative to economic issues. Another collaboration partner is the New Social Market Economy Initiative (Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft). Moreover, the We explain the economy project is also supported by Germany’s large teachers’ associations and the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen).
Press Release (Burda), 10 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in German Original Article
‘FOCUS-MONEY startet monatlich ein neues E-Paper: “Wir erklären die Wirtschaft”‘
UK: Publishers to battle for women’s magazine market
Emap, News Magazines and Northern & Shell are all looking to hire senior staff for their women’s magazines as they prepare for further launches in the market. Emap is to launch a younger companion to its Grazia weekly fashion magazine, which would compete with IPC’s Look magazine. Emap has hired Nic McCarthy, the former editor of OK!, though it will not say what McCarthy is working on. News Magazine has hired Lou McLeod to work on its new women’s magazine, rumoured to be named Lola. Northern & Shell is thought to be developing its fourth women’s magazine, its first since Star in November 2003, and his hired Sarah May as editor.
Media Week, 09 Jan 2007, p.5:-
‘Women’s weekly market set to hot up’
Poland: PMPG plans newspaper, television launch
Polish media concern Platforma Mediowa Point Group (PMPG) has announced that it plans to launch its daily newspaper on the Polish market at the turn of the year 2007 and 2008. PMPG plans a share issue to help with the investment required for the launch of the newspaper, as well as other projects. The value of the issue will be up to Zl 45mn (US$ 15.61mn EUR 11.76mn), depending on how many projects the company decides to invest in. The share issue is due to be carried out in March or April 2007. PMPG is also planning to launch a television channel, to be called Machina, which is the name of the company’s flagship popular culture magazine.
Gazeta Wyborcza, 09 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in Polish Original Article
‘Point Group chce uruchomic dziennik ogólnopolski’
Hungary: Word Communications publishes Csaladi Lap
The Hungarian-based magazine publisher Word Communications Kiado has expanded its portfolio with the monthly magazine Csaladi Lap as of January 2007. Until then, Magyar Voroskereszt’s (Hungarian Red Cross) magazine was published by the Finnish-owned publisher Sanoma Budapest. As of January 2007, Word Communications publishes books as well.
Napi Online, 09 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in Hungarian Original Article
‘A Word Communicationsnél a Családi Lap’
UK: Magazine unit at Trinity Mirror shut down
Trinity Mirror has closed down its magazine unit, and will negotiate redundancies with some of its 39 staff. The closure of the unit follows Trinity Mirror’s failure to launch a consumer magazine. The unit produces colour magazines for the group’s newspapers. The Sunday Mirror will now produce Celebs on Sunday and Homes and Holidays, while the Daily Mirror will produce We Love Telly!, which appears in the Mirror on Saturday. The magazine unit had originally been set up to produce a celebrity gossip magazine to rival Heat and OK! as well as a TV listings magazine to take on rivals such as TV Times.
Guardian, 10 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in English Original Article
‘Trinity Mirror magazine unit shuts’
US: Dow Jones reorganises its Enterprise Media Group
Following its recent acquisition of Factiva, Dow Jones has reorganised its Enterprise Media Group into three units. The three new units are Dow Jones Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Indexes and Reprints and Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions. As part of the reorganisation the company has amalgamated three units into the new Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions group while its other two groups remain unchanged and retain their current management. The amalgamated units are Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires and Dow Jones Licensing Services. Clare Hart remains President of the Enterprise Media Group.
Wall Street Journal, 10 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in English Original Article (registration required)
‘Dow Jones To Restructure Enterprise Media Group’
US: Job losses expected at Dow Jones & Co
Dow Jones & Co, the New York-based business news group, will shortly announce layoffs at its Dow Jones and Factiva operations. The move is designed to cut duplication between the two businesses. Dow Jones acquired the 50% of Factiva it did not already own from UK-based Reuters Group in October 2006. Dow Jones is publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
New York Times, 10 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in English Original Article (registration required)
‘Dow Jones Plans Layoffs at Newswires and Factiva’
US: Gannett, McClatchy, Tribune team on web advertising
Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, three of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers, are to join forces in offering marketeers a single point of access for advertising in their web-based papers. The three companies hope the initiative will attract marketeers who want to reach a nationwide online audience but are currently put off by dealing with each publisher and newspaper individually. It is believed Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune will each contribute 10% of their online advertising capacity to the joint venture, to be called “Open Network.” Talks are continuing among the companies, a formal announced is expected sometime in early 2007.
Wall Street Journal, 10 Jan 2007,:- Link to source home page in English Original Article (registration required)
‘Newspapers Set To Jointly Sell Ads on Web Sites’
Denmark: Free paper starts a job portal
Danish free paper Søndagsavisen will cooperate with subsidiary ofir.dk to start Denmark’s biggest online job portal, says the paper’s MD Gorm Wesing Flyvholm. The partners aim to spend a two-digit million krone sum on the project that aims to secure them a 40% stake of the total market for job adverts in Denmark by 2009.
Børsen, 10 Jan 2007,:-
‘Söndagsavisen satser millioner i jobkrig’
UK: ‘one’ provides staff with iPod for training
Staff based at Liverpool Street station in London have been provided with iPods programmed with an audio training system. Following a six-month trial, the train operator ‘one’ rolled out the new system, which is being supplied by an Australian company, VOICEMAP.
Rail, 03 Jan 2007, p.10:-
”one’ trains for future’
Denmark: Niche channels have won market share
TV 2’s, MTG’s and SBS’ TV channels all lost market share by up to 0.5% among persons aged 15-50 in November 2006, compared with November 2005, according to figures for Danish commercial TV stations by Gallup and Accenture Marketing Sciences. MTV and especially Discovery have increased their market shares. Discovery’s market share among men aged 19-50 is now 4.7%, which makes it about as big as Kanal 4 and Kanal 5. MTG’s channels have nearly all lost viewers, especially TV3 among men, but TV3+ has grown a little. TV2’s losses have almost been compensated by growth of niche channels Zulu, Charlie and TV2 Film.
Børsen, 10 Jan 2007, p.4:-
‘Nichekanalernes store vakst-år’
France: Media treatment of Presidential candidates
UDF Presidential candidate François Bayrou has criticized the focus of French television channels on Segolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, saying that it is not their job to drive the French towards a pre-determined choice on election day. Other candidates, including Marie-George Buffet and Corinne Lepage, have also expressed concerns about the fact that media coverage is not taking all candidates into account. According to a CSA study, TF1 has given 46% of its election coverage to the two “favourite” candidates. At France 2, that figure is 64% and at M6 it is 71.9%.
Les Echos, 10 Jan 2007,:-
‘Traitement médiatique de la présidentielle : les petits candidats font monter la pression’
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