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New Cue the music: former Q editors join newsletter publishing boom

After the Bauer Media music title’s pandemic-triggered demise last July, Q’s former staff are launching a weekly direct-to-inbox publication

Published: 25 Feb 2021

America's 'news deserts': the death of the great alt-weeklies

The Village Voice’s decision to end print publication is just the latest in an epidemic of free alternative newspaper closures in the US, which have left many cities with no local journalism at all. Is there hope for alt-weeklies?

Published: 23 Aug 2017

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Metro climbs to second place in the circulation league

Free newspaper overtakes the Daily Mail and closes on the Sun on weekdays after giving away thousands of copies on London buses

Published: 1 Dec 2016

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What lies behind Trinity Mirror's return of four Metro franchises

Roy Greenslade

Newspaper publishers are pursuing different strategies in order to make profits

Published: 14 Sep 2016

Published: 14 Sep 2016

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City AM takes a revolutionary step by opening website to advertisers

Roy Greenslade

London’s free business newspaper will allow brands and freelance writers to create content without any editorial involvement

Published: 3 Jun 2016

Published: 3 Jun 2016

The Evening Standard’s Sarah Sands: ‘I’m a journalist with a liking for drama’

Freesheet editor on working with Evgeny Lebedev, the exaggeration of the death of print – and her love of sewers

Published: 3 Apr 2016

Media interview
Metro’s Ted Young: ‘Our job is as an anchor, telling the basic story’

Freesheet editor on being a one-nation paper, property porn - and being punched by Richard Desmond

Published: 18 Oct 2015

Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Why Metro is still worth celebrating

Just look around your train and it’s clear there are lots of people who like still to pick up a newspaper and read some real news

Published: 15 Feb 2015

Published: 15 Feb 2015

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Newspaper subjected to dirty tricks campaign offers €5,000 reward

Editor mystified by sabotage plot

Published: 5 Sep 2014

Eric Pickles: I'll shut council freesheets that publish 'propaganda on the rates'

Communities secretary targets five Labour-led London boroughs, where he says free press is being put out of business

Published: 17 Apr 2014

Media interview
Metro's Steve Auckland: 'There's a lot of money to be made out of print'

Freesheet's managing director on why he puts print first, wooing the urbanites – and the power of repositioned dump bins. By Roy Greenslade

Published: 23 Feb 2014

Little music fanzines making a big noise

Music's most exciting magazines are put together on a shoestring and given away in shops. Nadia Khomami meets the people behind the titles

Published: 25 Jan 2014
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London Evening Standard to boost distribution to 900,000 copies a day

Paper's increase to coincide with local TV launch

Published: 9 Jan 2014

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Kent on Sunday gets a makeover

New front page look for free title

Published: 23 Sep 2013

Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
Standard shows free content can compete with the paywall brigade

While News Corp aims to 'own' smartphone screens, the London newspaper shows giveaway strategy can still be profitable, says Peter Preston

Published: 7 Jul 2013

Published: 7 Jul 2013
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Newspaper publishers pursue different cover price strategies

Roy Greenslade

Roy Greenslade on the conundrum facing owners trying to sell print copies in a declining, mature market

Published: 1 Jul 2013

Published: 1 Jul 2013

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Standard makes £82,000 profit as Independent titles lose £17.5m

Figures show financial improvements for Lebedev newspapers

Published: 27 Jun 2013
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Veteran hack plays newspaper boy

He delivers copies of the London Evening Standard to his neighbours

Published: 5 Jun 2013

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