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Hunt lobbied Cameron on News Corp's behalf

Maisie McCabe — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:35:00 GMT

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt made private representations to prime minister David Cameron on behalf of News Corporation's bid for BSkyB in the weeks before being handed responsibility for the merger, it has emerged.

Sun website traffic little moved by Sunday print launch

Daniel Farey-Jones — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:28:00 GMT

The Sun's website traffic increased 2.8% in April to 1.53 million average daily browsers, only slightly above its levels before the launch of its Sunday print edition, according to the latest ABC data.

Trinity Mirror rolls out call to action online ads

Nick Batten — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:30:00 GMT

Trinity Mirror has added Respond's contextual call to action ads to its national portfolio of digital sites, following a successful trial on the Manchester Evening News.

Newspaper Marketing Agency relaunches as Newsworks amid 'need to think differently'

Arif Durrani — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT

The Newspaper Marketing Agency, the organisation that has promoted the strengths of the national press sector to advertisers since 2003, has re-launched today as Newsworks, a move said to recognise that "the old language of press or paper doesn't fit any more".

Bauer Media, Keys and Gray and Classic FM wins at Sonys

Maisie McCabe — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:13:00 GMT

Bauer Media won three gold awards at the Sony Radio Academy Awards last night, while TalkSport's rehabilitated duo Richard Keys and Andy Gray went home with Best Sports Programme and Global Radio's Classic FM won the Special Award.

Newspapers are better suited to Saturdays

Arif Durrani — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:47:00 GMT

Printed newspapers are much better suited to the slower pace of Saturdays than midweek working lives, a trend publishers have tracked for sometime but one that is only truly transparent as an industry in new ABC figures today.

PPA Conference: Tim Brooks on The Times 'paywall failure' and Mail's 'world success'

Arif Durrani — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:20:00 GMT

News International's experiment with a non-penetrable paywall around websites for The Times and Sunday Times has been a failure, while the rise of Mail Online has been the "world success story", according to former Guardian leader, Tim Brooks.

PPA Conference: Tim Brooks on the new found optimism for professional publishers

Arif Durrani — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:47:00 GMT

Tim Brooks, the former managing director of Guardian News & Media, identifies a new sense of optimism setting into the publishing industry, after two years of concern amid sweeping change.

Independent's monthly unique users pass 14.5m

Staff — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:00 GMT

The Independent's website scooped the biggest increase in monthly unique users in March, up 13% to 14.52 million, according to figures released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Media Bitch's Diary 19 April

Media Bitch — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:00:00 GMT

This week, Bitch hears all the gossip from 'MTV Presents Titanic Sounds', finds out one of the reasons UM London rubber-stamped the Royal Mail media account and says "ahah" to Steve Coogan.