Guardian Media Group (GMG), owner of The Guardian and The Observer, has sold its majority stake in the AutoTrader group for about £850 million. This will give it a cash mountain of about £1 billion to keep the lights on for the expansion of both publications, on paper and online. Better than the EMAP investment Read More
Month: January 2014
Publishing jobs on the up
The publishing sector in the UK economy is creating jobs, according to the government’s latest statistics. Employment in the publishing sector was up 7.5% to 223,000 jobs in 2012 compared with 2011. Publishing is the 4th largest employment sector in the creative industries which is divided into 9 sectors. The figures are revealed in Creative Read More
The world was small. Now, it’s really, really tiny.
Unless you’re reading this on a tablet of course. Or on one of those quaint “desktop” screens. Either way, we’re getting used to accessing our content and updates from a much smaller window. Apparently most job applications, and social network updates now happen via mobile. As does a lot of our passive media consumption – Read More