UK Newspaper Business: Doom And Gloom

Familiar threads of negativity running through MediaGuardian’s report from yesterday’s Dow Jones Business Editors’ Conference. Independent city editor Jeremy Warner is quoted as saying that making a newspaper an adjunct to an online operation would be a “crazy strategy” – he says print commands authority, and that publishing is about more than breaking news and immediacy. He also said that “profitable” newspaper websites are effectively subsidised by print. (At the MediaGuardian summit in March, GU’s Emily Bell was put on the spot by Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow; when she cautiously said the site would make nearly

This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.

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