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Byline: Michael Sebastian With Forbes for sale, Fortune divorcing from CNNMoney.com and Bloomberg Businessweek part of a companywide strategic review at Bloomberg Media, the year ahead could hold dramatic shifts [...]

It has been over a year since Rupert Murdoch secured a $5bn (#2.4bn) deal to take control of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, and many have been waiting […]

Scam artists are always looking for new victims, and newspaper classified ads appear to be another way to find them. Paul Rozendal recently put an ad in the Corvallis Gazette-Times [...]

The Orange County (Ca.) Register is about to begin a round of layoffs -- after last year's buyouts and expense cuts did not do the cost-saving trick. The information emerged [...]

In what is supposed to be one of its last quarterly reports before going private, Tribune Co. said Wednesday its profits plummeted 58% in the second quarter compared to last [...]

The Lancaster (Pa.) New Era was doing something right long before the past year. It won state awards, and was the rare afternoon daily with almost as much circulation as [...]

Which? is hunting a direct marketing agency for its recently launched magazine, Which? Money. The title, which launched earlier this year, has until now been marketed to existing Which? subscribers, [...]

City AM, the London business freesheet, has abandoned plans to roll out sister editions across the UK, as it announces a profit for the first time since its launch. Managing […]

From our perspective, the future of the printed guide looks very healthy, principally because we're not reliant on the more traditional forms of distribution and sales (Caterer, 26 October, page [...]

By Jim Benson MyNetworkTV is set on risky programming scheme When News Corp. launches My Network TV (MNT) on Sept. 5, the company will be taking a hefty programming gamble. [...]

Gosh - yet another print plc is in sale talks! Fulmar's announcement that it was negotiating with an unnamed potential bidder came just one week after Wyndeham Press Group revealed [...]

Scorpio Print Finishing (SPF) is to be split into two businesses, one focusing on trade finishing and the other on the firm's speciality business. The assets of the core print [...]

St Ives' share price took a tumble last week after the print plc issued a trading update to say that its interim results would be 'significantly below market expectations'. The [...]

Free London newspaper City AM, which launched three months ago, claims it has more readers than the Financial Times within the City and Canary Wharf. Research carried out by NOP […]

Wolters Kluwer has denied continuing rumours that it is in takeover talks with the two giants of STM and business information publishing, Thomson and Reed Elsevier. In a report in [...]

As part of its plan to improve profits, Stora Enso is looking at stripping up to 2.3m tonnes per year of production from its mill operations and cutting up to [...]

WH Smith is to give more shelf space to market-leading titles at the expense of lower circulation rivals as it puts magazine sales at the heart of its turnaround strategy. […]

Local newspaper group Archant has announced a 190.5% decline in pre-tax profits for the first half. The Eastern Daily Press owner said it is taking a cautious view of the [...]

St Ives said this week it remains on track to meet annual targets. In a trading update the company said business levels were buoyant in the books and point-of-sale sectors [...]

News corp. has always had its fingers in so many media pies around the world that the company is difficult for investors to understand, much less love. The fact that [...]

According to employment experts, 2005 could be a good year for the U.S. job market. And as hiring picks up, Manpower (MAN) has the supply to keep up with demand. [...]

Score Press, the print and publishing division of Scottish Radio Holdings, anticipates a 9% yearly rise in profits for the first half. According to a trading update that coincides with [...]

Magazine publisher Future Network expects profits from the financial year, which ends this month, to have dropped. Future also says that the last quarter had seen losses due to the [...]

Business-to-business advertising is showing 'encouraging signs of recovery in the US and UK,' says Reed Elsevier's chief executive Crispin Davis as the Anglo-Dutch publisher reported a better than expected half-year [...]

Yell Group, the publisher of telephone directories, increased group revenues by 7.1% to #280.9m for the three months to June 30, driven by growth in the US following acquisitions last [...]

Future Network, the Bath publisher of specialist consumer magazines, reports an 8% overall sales increase for the first five months of the year, driven by growth in its US and [...]

Circulation fell at the Daily Mirror in May as the paper felt the effects of the fake Iraq photos scandal. Deserting readers left the flagship Trinity Mirror title with a [...]

Daily freesheet Metro is hoping to become Britain's fourth biggest national newspaper with the launch of regional editions in the East Midlands and [...]

Reed Elsevier, the Anglo Dutch publishing group, has reported signs of recovery in its trade magazines business due to a healthier outlook for the US market. Advertising revenues at Reed's [...]

Anglo Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier has issued a pessimistic 2004 forecast claiming its figures will be hit by a decline in the US education market and increased Internet investment. However, [...]

Italian publisher RCS MediaGroup is to cut 7% of its workforce in an effort to concentrate solely on its core businesses, which include newspapers such as Spain's Il Mundo and [...]

R.H. Donnelley announced that 2008 would be significantly worse than expected as advertisers cut back on buying Yellow Pages advertising due to the economic slowdown. CEO David Swanson said the company was essentially at the mercy of the market and that the company will not issue a dividend for 2008.

The trends and main events of world's largest market research company VNU in the year 2006 are discussed.

News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin on Monday laid out the next phase of the company's digital strategy, saying this phase is what prompted a surprise executive switch last [...]

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and John Malone's Liberty Media hardened their positions Friday as News Corp. extended its poison-pill provision for up to three years. At its annual meeting in [...]

Rupert Murdoch has a pretty clear idea how MySpace can bring in cash for News Corp. But competing execs aren't so sure. News Corp. topper told investors Tuesday that a [...]

Publishing a small town weekly newspaper is sometimes compared to running a dairy. It's a lot of hard work with few chances of taking time off. Some are beset with [...]

NEW YORK -- With a regulatory decision on News Corp.'s proposed takeover of Hughes Electronics coming within reach, noise over the deal's implications --inside and outside the News Corp. empire--is […]