Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 25, 2013
12:19 pm
The Guardian
In an
excerpt from his new autobiography, Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger recounts "three of the more surreal days in my life" -- when he went to Libya to negotiate the release of an imprisoned journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, before Moammar Gadhafi's regime fell.
Gadhafi's son Saif sent his chief of staff, Mohammed Ismail. Rusbridger talks about his conversation with Ismail and Abdulmajeed Ramadan El-Dursi, chairman of the Foreign Media Authority.
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 12, 2012
12:35 pm
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland |
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Guardian Media Group has "a loss-making core newspaper, but it's subsidized by other assets we can draw on when we need to," Guardian Media Group Chief Executive Andrew Miller said at a conference. That doesn't mean its owners have given up on attempts to "
optimise the economics of the paper," Padraic Ryan quotes Miller as saying.
He said this latter element involved "format changes, and price rises, continuing pressure on the cost base."
This summer Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger told staffers the company's papers (it also owns The Observer)
will reduce their workforces and do less "commodity journalism."
Guardian Media Group's only shareholder is the
Scott Trust, whose "core purpose is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity." Guardian media and technology head Dan Sabbagh told the conference that the arrangement frees the paper from the whims of a wealthy owner. According to Ryan:
He said that in most cases, ownership of newspapers had drifted to what he called a poor football model, where the businesses were funded by "lively characters" – a model that carried with it a certain burden. (more...)
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Andrew Beaujon
July 18, 2012
9:28 am
The Guardian |
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Digital advertising and digital revenues are up at Guardian News & Media, which publishes its namesake paper and The Observer. But circulation and print advertising are down, and the company's "investment in digital" means
it'll have to reduce its headcount, Editor Alan Rusbridger and Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller told staff this week. The company's looking to save £7 million (about $11 million) by eliminating 70 to 100 "journalist redundancies," between 11 and 15 percent of its current workforce, Dan Sabbagh reports:
In a briefing for staff, Rusbridger said the Guardian and Observer – collectively Guardian News & Media (GNM) – "will be smaller" and that the newspapers "will do less, less of what's called commodity journalism, so that we can do more on our core purpose and the type of journalism that we're here to do."
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 22, 2012
12:31 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 30, 2012
11:40 am
You might remember last year that the Guardian tried
publishing its story budgets online to invite
feedback and tips from readers. Today the UK newspaper takes the next step toward a transparent, “open” newsroom with a daily live blog from the news desk.
Newsdesk Live is not another bloggy account of today’s top stories like Yahoo News’
The Upshot or The New York Times’
The Lede. Newsdesk Live includes the day’s story budget and conversational updates on what Guardian journalists are seeking and learning. The blog invites readers to contribute by posting comments, emailing or tweeting.
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- Newsdesk Live is a home for top news updates, newsroom process and reader engagement.
This is a noteworthy experiment in both form and function. Readers can quickly gauge the leading stories of the day, how they’re unfolding and what the public might contribute. The result is a pleasant mix of facts, analysis, process and discussion — an illustration of news as a process, not a product.
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Jan. 24, 2012
11:47 am
“An article about the US presidential contest said that a Republican contender, Mitt Romney, had followed up an admission that he liked firing people by being snapped receiving a sit-down shoeshine from an underling, noting that this was not a good look for a would-be man of the people. It later emerged that Romney was not receiving a shoeshine, but was having a wand passed over his footwear in an airport security check (The American way is being warped to breaking point, 14 January, page 51).”
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A correction in The Guardian
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