Screenshot: Is the Super League the biggest PR disaster of all time? April 23, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Radio loses a legend **Is the Super League the biggest PR disaster of all time? **Is Netflix’s pandemic party finally over? Media Moment of the Week: Radio loses a legend For many Brits, radio has been a much-needed source of entertainment (and company) during the pandemic. But long [...]
Daily Mail files competition lawsuit against Google over royal coverage April 20, 2021 The Daily Mail has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google over allegations the tech giant unfairly manipulated its rankings in search results. In the suit filed in Manhattan federal court, the newspaper’s parent company accused Google of punishing publishers’ search rankings if they do not sell enough advertising space through Google’s marketplace. The Daily Mail’s [...]
Daily Mail owner’s shares jump as it bags £1bn from Cazoo listing March 29, 2021 Shares in the publishing group behind the Daily Mail jumped in morning trading as investors geared up for a £1bn windfall from Cazoo’s New York stock market float. The online used-car platform, in which Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) holds a 20 per cent stake, this morning confirmed plans to go public in a [...]
Mail on Sunday ordered to publish front-page statement over Meghan Markle privacy case March 5, 2021 The Mail on Sunday must publish a front-page statement about Meghan Markle’s victory in a privacy case against the newspaper, the High Court ruled today. A judge last month ruled that the tabloid had breached the Duchess of Sussex’s privacy and infringed her copyright by publishing extracts of a letter she sent to her estranged [...]
Screenshot: Will nightclubs really reopen in June? March 5, 2021 This week: **Media Moment of the Week: Telly’s still got welly **Will nightclubs really reopen on 21 June? **The BBC turns back time Media Moment of the Week: Telly’s still got welly In the age of Silicon Valley streaming giants and relentless references to “content” and “eyeballs”, it’s easy to forget that TV can, sometimes, [...]
Daily Mail owner acquires New Scientist magazine for £70m March 3, 2021 The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) has announced that its consumer media business has acquired New Scientist for £70m. A consortium of individual investors led by Sir Bernard Gray are set to sell the world’s leading science magazine. Lord Rothermere, charmain of DMGT, said: “New Scientist is a world-renowned publication loved by its readers, [...]
Daily Mail owner sells education business for £293m amid pandemic woes February 18, 2021 The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) has announced the sale of its education technology business for around $410m (£293.4m) as it scrambles to free up cash during the pandemic. The Daily Mail owner has signed two separate contracts to offload Hobsons, which provides education and career advice for students. He added that they were [...]
Forget the BBC, as Ofcom chair Paul Dacre would get his teeth into tech February 2, 2021 Almost a year after Priti Patel vowed to make Ofcom a regulator with teeth, the government looks poised to appoint Fleet Street Rottweiler Paul Dacre as its new chair. No one could accuse her of underdelivering. For many, Dacre’s political leanings (characterised by some as so far to the right as to be almost horizontal) [...]
Prince Harry wins ‘substantial damages’ and apology over Mail article February 1, 2021 Prince Harry has been awarded “substantial damages” and an apology over a Mail on Sunday article that claimed he had turned his back on the military after stepping down as a senior royal. The Duke of Sussex sued Associated Newspapers, part of DMGT, for libel over two articles published in October that said he had [...]
Revenue at Daily Mail publisher plunges as print circulation drops January 21, 2021 Underlying revenue at Daily Mail publisher Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) fell 15 per cent during the last quarter, as circulation of consumer print titles fell seven per cent. DMGT reported group revenue stood at £304m in the three months to 31 December 2020, down an underlying 15 per cent. The publisher, which also [...]