Image / edscoble The London Weekly, storming into the Bliztkrieged freesheet battlefield like a medieval knight at the Battle of Hamburger Hill, has been given a launch date of February 1st. The paper’s website is expected to go live later in December. According to the …
Image by J_I_M__D Much like the War on Terror, the freesheet war keeps defying predictions that an end to hostilities is nigh. A new weekly London newspaper is on course for a launch in the New Year, according to The Guardian. Backed by unnamed investors …
Photo / bltphoto From January, the Evening Standard will drop its midday edition, switching instead to a single, final West End edition which will hit newstands at 2pm. The culling of the current two-paper policy will, editor Geordie Greig hopes, allow the Standard to ensure …
The Journal is to end its 18-month experiment of selling the US edition on London newstands. The project was rolled out in April 2008, with a 3,500-copy print run allowing British readers to scoop the day’s paper ahead of their American cousins; given what happened …
Image / Jon Smalldon Barely three years after it began, London’s afternoon freesheet war has ended: in a not unsurprising move, Associated Newspapers have announced that they are to close the London Lite. Launched in 2006 as a spoiler to News International’s The London Paper, …
Image / ganchingabz The London freesheet war that sparked into life in 2006 has claimed its first real casualty: thelondonpaper, owned by News International, is to be closed. 60 full-time and contract staff could lose their jobs, but in the current economic climate — and …
The Observer newspaper could be axed as a cost-cutting measure by owner Guardian News & Media. The world’s oldest Sunday paper, founded in the year Michael Faraday was born (look it up), may be chopped down and repackaged as a weekly newsmagazine: a dummy copy …
The Evening Standard’s revamp may not have brought readers back yet, but that hasn’t stopped owner Alexander Lebedev planning the next acquisition of his media empire: he’s reportedly sniffing round the Independent. Sir Anthony Reilly, the septuagenarian owner of Independent News & Media, the parent …
When Time Out editor Gordon Thomson resigned in February, Mark Frith was parachuted in to serve as Acting Editor. The former Heat supremo was also tasked with finding a permanent replacement for Thomson. That search is now over with news that Frith himself will front …
In the week that ITV sacrificed The Southbank Show for some savings we were somewhat cheered to receive notice that Lord Melvyn Bragg would be delivering the annual Bagehot lecture on arts and the media at QMW in a month’s time. Aside from it being …
Image / edscoble Carriage clogging freesheet The London Paper totalled losses of £13m in the 12 months to June 2008, according to a report in the Guardian. Despite a lower sum than the £16m losses in its first 10 months of existence, the paper, a …
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