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Plenty of time to take in print panoply

Last night I queued for two-and-a-half-hours at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This was a form of self-inflicted penance for being a complete maroon and not acting immediately upon the "must book tickets" thought that flitted across my withered brain when the David Hockney: A Bigger Picture...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 04-05-2012
Sun on Sunday in rush job shocker

Yesterday Rupert Murdoch proudly tweeted that the first edition of his new Sun on Sunday had sold 3m copies. How many of those purchases will turn out to be driven by curiosity, or a desire to have a copy of the first of something, will become evident once the settle down sales figure becomes established...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-27-2012
Hyper-local hoorah

I spotted the hashtag #loveyourlocalpaper on Twitter this morning, it seems to be gaining a bit of momentum although it's yet to trend above Harry Potter and the Deathly Vagina (don't ask). This newspaper-based Twitter activity reminded me that an update is due on a hyper-local newspaper product...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-17-2012
Is your company missing the value of print?

The nuclear cloud has reached Australia. With the arrival of the cloud, no options for living are left. One by one, the inhabitants of Australia take their suicide pills. It is the only way to avoid a long drawn out death by radiation sickness. You may have read a book by Nevil Shute. The novel is called...

Posted to A Print Buyer's Perspective (Weblog) by Matthew Parker on 03-11-2011
Long Eaton: a hotbed of hyper-local publishing

How many column inches have been written in print, and online, about the supposed terminal decline of printed newspapers? Too many. In the face of so much negative comment (including this ‘newspaper extinction timeline' produced by Australian futurologist Ross Dawson), I was heartened to read an...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 11-02-2010
Good news day

Today is something of a red-letter day for new launches. The first national newspaper launch for umpteen years (24, actually) has hit the streets in the shape of i. Crazy name, and no doubt some will see it as a crazy idea. At just 20p it's an appealing price point (maybe even for media freegans...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 10-26-2010
More newspaper news

Rupert Murdoch's statements on paid-for content generated hundreds of column inches, and a Google search throws up the best part of 1,000 stories. All the ones I've had time to look at have been free, natch. Closer to home, the story also generated an engaging comment trail here on printweek...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 08-11-2009
It's newsprint, but not as we know it

With the fallout of this week's Digital Britain report still being bandied about and the mongers of doom heralding the end of local newspapers, it is easy to think the wind might have changed on the grumpy face of today's media. Granted, newspapers have a lot to contend with, and no amount of...

Posted to Inking outside the box (Weblog) by Chloe Setter on 06-18-2009
Big trouble for little newspapers

Claire Enders, the founder and chief executive of Enders Analysis told the culture, media and sport select committee in a hearing this morning that she expects no fewer than half of all regional and local newspapers to close within five years. And the heads of the nation's newspaper groups appeared...

Posted to Press Minding - All the news that’s fit for print (Weblog) by Matt Whipp on 06-16-2009
Newspapers finding new ways to get copy into people's hands

It's been several years since my local newsagent scrapped his home delivery service. A lack of willing and reliable pensioners/school kids to do the legwork was part of the reason, combined with a dwindling number of residents who actually wanted a paper every day meant the service quite simply didn't...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 06-08-2009

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