New Supplement from Evening News
A new ‘going out guide’ is to be launched by The Edinburgh Evening News, with the first issue out a week tomorrow. It will comprise 24 pages and be full colour.
It is appearing as the evening newspaper market hots up in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, following the recent launch of the Daily Record’s PM editions.
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A sporting chance for a free magazine?
Just as the newspaper market was recently shaken up by the launch of free titles London Lite and Thelondonpaper by Associated Newspapers and News International respectively, so the magazine sector is about to witness the dawn of a similar revolution.
The two new London freesheets are fast closing in on their joint distribution target of 800,000 and are responsible for what is expected to be the first significant rise in total UK newspaper circulation for a decade (MW last week).
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Free Sport mag debuts in London
he capital’s latest free publication Sport launched this morning (29 September) with the face of Thierry Henry on the cover.
The 48 page weekly magazine is being distributed outside tube stations and in London gyms, sports and health clubs and office buildings. The first issue features an exclusive interview with Henry.
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Telegraph 'coup' claims two more picture editors
Two further picture desk redundancies at the Telegraph titles, and the announcement of the arrival date of Stuart Nicol comes amid a growing battle for control of the titles between editors and management
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Award-winning journalist is new Free Press editor
Award-winning journalist Nic Outterside is to succeed Alistair Syme as editor of the 7,000+ circulation weekly Denbighshire Free Press.
He moves from sister title the Powys County Times, where he was deputy editor.
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Butler, the Domain Man
A company that would rather describe itself as ‘domain name strategists’, rather than ‘cyber-squatters’, has beaten the Daily Record to register a web address sounding awfully close to its recently-launched evening editions.
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With loads of domain names available, and cheap pricing, someone will always register names close to new products and publications.
This particular 'web squat' is an amateur attempt using web templates to cash in on an existing companies reputation.
Price Cut Results in Sales Hike for Scottish Daily Star Sunday
The Scottish Daily Star Sunday enjoyed a 30 per cent increase in sales at the weekend, compared to the previous weekend, following a price cut of 25p.
The cut - from 75p to 50p and exclusive to the Scottish edition - took sales up to around the 40,000 mark. What’s more, the sales increase was against a fairly flat weekend, sales-wise, for all newspapers, given that it was a Glasgow holiday.
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Scotland on Sunday Enjoys Sales Hike Too
It wasn’t just the Scottish Daily Star Sunday that enjoyed a sales hike at the weekend, despite it being a holiday in Glasgow. While the SDSS was enjoying increased circulation from a price cut - as reported on yesterday’s Spike - Scotland on Sunday wasn’t doing badly either.
Spike hears its sales were up, not least because of a pictorial, ‘best views in Scotland’ guide. Nearly 15 per cent up on the previous week.
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Whilst most newspapers have now embraced online as an essential element to their future business plans and growth (or indeed long term survival), the integration of online with the rest of the business does not always give it the chance it needs to work to optimum effect. There is certainly an argument that online is a specialized area and therefore needs its own division but newspapers also need to ensure this department is integrated into the key areas of editorial, advertising and marketing.
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Jack Myles, former night editor of the Daily Record and assistant editor of the Sunday Mail, who has died at the age of 70, was a journalist who played a key role in the golden years of what were then Scotland's largest-selling newspapers .
He was night editing the Daily Record when, over one weekend in 1971, it leapt from a hot-metal operation, in Hope Street, Glasgow, to a hi-tech plant with computer typesetting and web-offset printing, just a mile away at Anderston Quay.
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The ailing owner of the Daily Mail newspaper has admitted to a catastrophic slump in revenues.
Daily Mail and General Trust, dumped out of the FTSE-100 index in June, said ad revenues at its national newspapers fell six per cent in 11 months to the end of August.
This was partly due to problems at the London Evening Standard, where circulation fell 7 per cent.
Things were worse still in the struggling regional division — subject of a botched sell-off bid last year.
Advertising was down eight per cent there, while income from circulation fell almost one per cent.
Giving it all away
From Milton Keynes to Manchester, Stockholm to New York, free newspapers are on the march. In London alone, two titles have been launched in the past month. Can the paid-for press survive the competition? Or is this the death-knell for quality journalism? Patrick Barkham investigates
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Londonpaper claims lead in grabbing young people
In week three of London's free newspaper war, News International has claimed that thelondonpaper now reaches more young ABC1 readers than either Metro or the Evening Standard.
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Burton Mail trials morning publishing
The Burton Mail has begun a monthlong trial of morning publishing every day. It follows a month's experiment of morning publication on a Thursday, which resulted in a "significant" sales rise on the day.
...It is understood that staff have approached the NUJ over work patterns, claiming they were not properly consulted by management about the changes and that there are not sufficient staffing levels at present.
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Belated Congratultions....
Belated congratulations to the Scottish Daily Mirror which published a white box rather than a photograph of singer, Robbie Williams, in protest at his requiring snappers to sign over their rights to him.
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3am girls draw a blank with Robbie Williams
The NUJ has congratulated the Daily Mirror over its stance in choosing to carry a blank space in place of a picture of singer Robbie Williams.
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Dear Mike Gilson.........
Spike always likes to help out whenever possible, and that’s why there’s a crate of lager to be won for the best suggestion on how to improve The Scotsman newspaper.
It’s understood that new editor, Mike Gilson, arrives at the paper’s Edinburgh HQ on Monday, and he has already been busy canvassing opinion on how to take The Scotsman forward.
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Alba New ST Scotland Editor
Sunday Times Scotland has promoted its deputy, Carlos Alba, to succeed Les Snowdon as editor, who is off to take the helm at Scotland on Sunday. Alba - who has been deputy for five years - has an extensive CV, which began 16 years ago at the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, as a reporter.
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Nicole Kidman: I Didn't Dis Angelina!
Yesterday, the Scotland newspaper Daily Record apologized to Nicole Kidman after publishing quotes in which she criticized Angelina Jolie's charity work.
"In an article published on Friday, September 8, we attributed comments to Nicole Kidman in relation to Angelina Jolie.
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Four senior Telegraph Group picture editors resign after Nicol appointment
Four of the Telegraph Group’s most senior picture editors have today handed in their resignations in protest over planned restructuring ahead of the newspapers’ move from Canary Wharf to a custom built newsroom in Victoria.
Bob Bodman, the veteran Telegraph picture editor, his deputy Peter Floyd, Daily Telegraph features picture editor Mike Spillard, and Sunday Telegraph picture editor Nigel Skelsey have today (Thursday) all resigned. The resignations come after the appointment of Stuart Nicol as picture editor in chief at the Telegraph Group.
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Daily Mail web traffic soars
The Daily Mail, which for years gave only token resources to its website, has seen massive online readership growth this year since it started taking the internet seriously.
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Police arrest photographer at traffic accident scene
Thames Valley Police has apologised to Milton Keynes News staff photographer Andy Handley after he was handcuffed, arrested and cautioned while trying to take photographs of a road traffic accident.
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Londonpaper claims lead in grabbing young people
In week three of London's free newspaper war, News International has claimed that thelondonpaper now reaches more young ABC1 readers than either Metro or the Evening Standard.
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Sunday Mail Seeking Apology
An apology from the journalists’ weekly, Press Gazette, is being sought by the Sunday Mail over the reporting of sales figures.
Friday’s issue of Press Gazette had sales of the Sunday newspaper down 8.73 per cent on this time last year.
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Trinity mulls Insider magazine offload
SCOTTISH Business Insider, the monthly magazine, may be offloaded as part of Trinity Mirror's review of operations.
It was acquired for £3m by the Daily Record & Sunday Mail in 1999. Market sources were suggesting last week that the price tag of £1.2m had been discussed.
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Four commercial property journalists have set up their own web site with help from Lloyds TSB.
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Tangled web prompts newspaper strike threats
Journalists at the Telegraph and Guardian are on the verge of strike action in disputes with their management over job cuts and pay and conditions. Both disputes revolve around employment conditions for web work.
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Murdoch linked with £20m online graduate jobs business
Rupert Murdoch is set to buy a graduate recruitment website, Milkround Online, for around £20m, according to reports.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Murdoch's UK newspapers arm News International is in exclusive negotiations with Milkround, which has also attracted interest from rival newspaper groups Daily Mail & General Trust and Trinity Mirror, all of which have been on digital spending sprees.
The Milkround website allows university students to track jobs being offered by graduate recruiters. The business was founded in 1996 by an entrepreneur, Tom Hughes, who remains a major shareholder.
Neither News International nor Milkround would comment on the report.
Earlier this week, Murdoch's News Corporation agreed to acquire a 51% stake Jamba, the ringtone company behind Crazy Frog, for $187.5m.
The Daily Mail & General Trust spent £17m on the acquisition of three websites including car dealer site AutoExposure in July. In May, Associated spent £46.5m buying dating website Allegran and Data Media Retail, which owns Carsource.co.uk.
Also in May, Trinity Mirror bought regional internet property directory company Email4Property for £4.4m, which it is adding to its existing online property business, including SmartNewHomes.com.
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New editor for Highland weeklies
Paul Breen has been appointed the new group editor of the Highland News, North Star and Lochaber News.
The three weekly paid-for titles are all part of the Highland News Group, and in his new role Paul will also be responsible for the free Inverness Herald.
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Price rises, but papers still ‘cheap’
This week's quality newspaper price increases follow claims from The Independent editor Simon Kelner that newspapers were being sold too cheaply.
This week The Sunday Times became the first national newspaper to cost £2 while The Times went up from 60p to 65p on Monday, and The Daily Telegraph rose from 65p to 70p. The Saturday Times also went up from £1.20 to £1.30.
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Freebie Watch: August 2006
It's surely only a matter of time before newspapers start giving away wallpaper sheet-by-sheet as a way of enticing new readers — and judging by the sales results in August, they would probably be successful.
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Record Vendors Still Looking Crisp
Still brightening the streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the smartly-clad vendors of the recently-launched evening edition of the Daily Record continue to be doing brisk business, not least because of the free gift that comes with each copy bought.
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Brum Mail boss refuses to rule out morning publishing
Following one of the Birmingham Mail's worst ever sales performances, the paper's editorial director Mark Dickinson has said he would not rule out turning the evening into a morning title.
Evening newspapers across the country are switching to morning publication in a bid to improve sales and save money on distribution costs. In the last set of ABC figures the Mail's circulation plummeted by 17.5 per cent year-onyear to 75,787.
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War and terror in August fail to attract extra readers
The war in Lebanon, the alleged airport terror plot and the Tommy Sheridan libel trial ensured August was anything but the normal "silly season" for news.
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TUC gets behind regional press
The National Union of Journalists' campaign against cutbacks in regional press today received the unanimous endorsement of delegates of the premier union body, the Trade Union Congress.
Delegates to the TUC in Brighton passed a motion supporting the campaign, which condemned the cutting of editorial budgets while regional publishers posted record profits and increased shareholder dividends.
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Telegraph pm launches group’s digital revolution
Telegraph Group this week launched stage one of its integrated journalism "revolution" by launching a daily "multimedia newspaper" downloadable for free each day from 4pm.
The company also revealed that it has signed a deal with ITN to provide daily video news bulletins for Telegraph.co.uk.
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Scotsman.com in Running for Another Award
An awards ceremony to “celebrate and reward excellence in all aspects of digital publishing” has chosen the website of The Scotsman newspaper among its nominees for a title.
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New Group Editor Appointed
A new group editor has been appointed at north of Scotland trio of newspapers, the Highland News, North Star and Lochaber News, which are all part of the Highland News Group.
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TUC to vote on whether Journalism Matters
The National Union of Journalists will bring its Journalism Matters campaign to the TUC tomorrow with a motion to highlight the crucial role of the media in defending democracy - and the dangers to the profession.
Motion 52 will inform delegates across the trade union movement about the crisis the union says is facing the industry from "savage cuts in jobs and budgets", and ask for their support.
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A survey from Telecom Express showed that people think newspapers are considered far more trustworthy than websites and blogs.
The research named national TV as the most accurate, true and unbiased, at 66 per cent, with national, regional and local newspapers seen as trustworthy by 63 per cent of the 1,000 respondents. Radio was seen as less accurate (55 per cent), with just 36 per cent rating websites and 24 per cent rating blogs.
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An Evening with Jack
FORMER Glasgow Herald journalist Jack Webster, who has interviewed some of the world's most famous people, is to host an evening in Maud with local celebrity Sandy Ritchie.
Jack and Sandy will be reminiscing on memories of bygone Maud and the event will be supported by local artists including Ugie Folk Group, Maud School Recorder Group, Doric Poetry from Melissa Bremmer, Keith Will on the keyboard, Fraser Will with the pipes and Sheila and Les Wheeler with their fiddles.
Jack Webster was born in Maud and attended Maud Primary School before attending Robert Gordon's in Aberdeen. He began his journalism career on the Turriff Advertiser, before moving to the P&J, the Daily Express and then the Glasgow Herald. Jack has written a number of books and made television appearances.
The evening begins at 7pm to 9pm followed by soup and shortbread refreshments.
The concert event will be followed with dancing to CB Sounds which will have a licensed bar. Tickets are now on sale at £4 for the concert or dance and £7 for both events. Children entry is £2 for the concert only.
They can be purchased from W. Buchanan 01771 613523 and S.Buckman 01771 613396.
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Fire disrupts Standard's printing
Distribution of the London Evening Standard was disrupted this evening after a fire broke out at Associated Newspaper's printworks at Harmsworth Quays.
A spokesman for the paper said one hour's production was lost this afternoon because of a "small" fire.
The fire couldn't have come at a worse time for the paper as parent company Associated Newspaper attempts to fight off the arrival of News International's new afternoon freesheet the London Paper.
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Severed arm woman leaves hospital
A woman who lost part of her arm four inches above the wrist after being thrown from a car has left hospital.
Gillian Gilchrist, 29, from Ibrox, Glasgow, was found stumbling on the M8 near Paisley on Sunday.
...The Daily Record Glasgow PM edition has offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attacker.
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Publishers meet to fight off supermarket threat
Rival newspaper executives will join forces today in a bid to see off what they see as a threat to newspaper distribution by supermarkets.
A special meeting is to be held of the governing council of the Newspaper Publishers' Association so it can work on a submission to the Office of Fair Trading.
In May, the OFT unveiled a draft opinion on distribution of magazines and newspapers and its chief executive, John Fingleton, said the system of geographic monopolies must reform.
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Sackings at the Sun
The Sun newspaper was today forced into making a grovelling apology following an outrageous blunder of monumental proportions.
The blunder, which may lead to mass sackings at the paper’s Glasgow base in Kinning Park, was not discovered until after the paper had hit the streets. The Sun’s ashen-faced Editor, David Dunsmore, who, it was rumoured, may resign because of the scandal said:
“We’ve been caught out big time; bang to rights; in fact”
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Newspaper free-for-all
We all read freesheets and devour news at no cost on the web but what would happen if all papers were free? Richard Addis does the sums and finds some surprising results.
In 10 years' time, could all newspapers be free? Not just London Lite and the London Paper but papers like the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Telegraph and even the FT and the New York Times. Absurd? Perhaps not as much as it first seems.
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Metro launches Brighton edition
The new free Metro hit the streets of Brighton this morning whipping up competition with established evening The Argus and free sister title Argus Lite.
Ten thousand copies of Metro are being distributed from between 6am and 10am at train stations and on buses in Brighton, Hove, Preston Park, Hassocks, Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Shoreham, Worthing and Lewes.
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We're all Doomed
....the Scottish press seems too preoccupied by its own troubles to notice what is happening in Queen Margaret Drive.
The Scotsman has been suffering double-digit falls in circulation over the summer, and the revenues of its new owners, Johnston Press, have plummeting by nearly a tenth as advertising
evaporates. The Herald isn't in great shape either. The Daily Record has capitulated to the Sun, and faces an uncertain future under publishers, Trinity Mirror, who axed the Scottish Mirror. The launch of evening cheapos by the Record - a vulpine attempt to feed of the decaying carcass of the Scottish evening press - will help no one.
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Sunday Times gets even bigger with £2 hike
The Sunday Times accompanied a price rise to £2 with a subtle redesign for its main news section and the launch of a new gadget-laden section called In Gear.
The title has also expanded the Culture magazine to include more music and promised more free DVDs and CDs.
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Defenders of the free world
With London now the home of no fewer than four freesheets, Piet Bakker takes a tour of the giveaway titles that have done most to change the global newspaper market.
The first free commuter daily was launched in 1995 in Stockholm. By 2000 there were more than 40 free dailies in 20 countries with a total circulation of 8 million. Today, the number of countries with such dailies has doubled, the number of titles has more than tripled and circulation is four times as high (31 million).
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Record PM exceeds targets but sales hit main title’s figures
THE new Daily Record evening editions, Edinburgh PM and Glasgow PM, are selling more than 12,500 copies a day, but this has been offset by a drop in sales of the main paper of around 4000.
Boosted by free chocolate bars, shortbread and attractive female vendors, the 15p PM editions appear to have sold in line with early targets on the streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Including "... the Record’s actively purchased sale for the month of August slipped further behind The Scottish Sun"
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Sun Stretches Lead in Sales Race
The Scottish Sun’s lead over former top-selling daily newspaper, the Daily Record, gets ever-bigger. According to the latest monthly circulation figures, the ABCs, the average daily sale last month of the Sun was 407,294, as opposed to the Record’s 392,844. That’s about 5000 up on the previous month.
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Is London ready for a freesheet frenzy?
With two more free newspapers fighting for a share of commuter readership, James Robinson finds out whether Londoners feel enriched or bombarded by the volume of material on offer.
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Scotsman’s choice of editor raises questions over future direction
MIKE who? is the phrase on everyone’s lips in Scottish media circles at the moment, but this is not a relative of the nation’s favourite Timelord.
It is a response to the naming of Mike Gilson as the man finally chosen by Johnston Press to be the next editor of The Scotsman. Stand aside Andrew Marr. Step back Mark Douglas-Home. Make way for the editor of Portsmouth’s The News, who has never worked on a “quality” paper and has never worked in Scotland.
The decision is certainly not what anybody was expecting. The newspaper gossip in recent weeks had been that Douglas-Home, former editor of The Herald, had the job in the bag. He was understood to have won through in a second interview in early August over Independent executive editor John Mullin.
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NI ready to turn screws in Scotland
WHILE News International (NI) watchers are focused on thelondonpaper and the vacant Sunday Times Scotland editorship, rumours abound of things afoot at The Times.
The top brass are apparently pondering taking on The Herald and The Scotsman by launching a proper Scottish edition of The Times next year once its printing shifts from Merseyside to Eurocentral, near Glasgow, in April.
The Scottish edition of The Times is currently run out of Wapping by an editor and deputy, but we hear that NI is looking at launching something in Scotland on the scale of the current Sunday Times operation, which has about 20 people.
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Hands Off
Speaking of the Scottish edition of The Times, editor Robert Hands has moved sideways to become associate editor of thelondonpaper. This has left his delightfully named deputy, Nolan Cocker, holding the fort until overall editor Robert Thomson decides on a replacement. Cocker is one of two internal candidates on the shortlist along with one external, but he is no shoo-in. He was passed over for the Wapping-based post last summer and the word is that he will be gutted if he misses out again. Whoever wins out, rumour has it that each candidate has been sounded out about moving to Scotland.
Everyone’s a winner
Express owner Richard Desmond once threatened to attack the Daily Mail by putting five pound notes on the front cover of his paper, but new consumer comparisons website PeoplesChampion.com has gone one better. The site, led by Intelligent Finance founder Jim Spowart, has been sending out fliers with one pound coins attached to them. “See?” it says underneath, “Saving you money already.” Great idea, next time make it a tenner!
Property Writes
Speaking of new websites, four ex-journalists have launched a commercial property site backed by Lloyds TSB Scotland. Compropscotland.com, which launched on Friday and is mocked up to look like a newspaper, is the brainchild of property writers Stewart McIntosh and Ken Houston; trade magazine writer Chris Dobson; and Jim Dow, the former business editor of The Scotsman. The things people will do to put a roof over their heads!
What becomes of the freesheets we abandon on the Underground?
In addition to Metro, City A.M. and assorted magazines aimed at Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans, the commuters of London can now avail themselves of 800,000 extra free papers each weekday in the form of new launches thelondonpaper and London Lite.
Which means a huge addition to the 20 tonnes of newsprint already being dumped every day on the seats and floors of the London Underground (sadly, there are no litter bins, dating back to the security risk posed in the days of the IRA).
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Metro to expand London edition into Brighton
Free newspaper Metro is to extend the distribution of its London edition to Brighton to cater for the growing influx of commuters travelling to the capital from the Sussex coast.
The new edition of the Associated Newspapers title will launch on September 11 and be distributed at stations between the seaside city and London including Brighton, Hove, Preston Park, Hassocks, Burgess Hill, Purley, Haywards Heath, Shoreham, Worthing, and Lewes.
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National newspaper ABCs: sales slide across the board in August
The war in Lebanon, the alleged airport terror plot and the Tommy Sheridan libel trial ensured August was anything but the normal "silly season" for news.
But the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures reveal that the national press in general failed to capitalise - with most titles significantly down compared with August 2005.
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Red-top sales heat up in August
Massive reader interest in the airport chaos caused by the alleged bomb plot saw many tabloid newspapers increase their month-on-month sales during the traditionally quiet holiday month of August.
However, all titles experienced declines on August 2005, when Britain was enthralled by England's exploits in the Ashes cricket series.
News International's flagship title, the Sun, was up 0.51% to an average of 3,223,841 copies each day in August, a fall of 4.09% year on year.
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Standard and Star get best of August newspaper market
A mostly flat August for national newspaper circulation was bucked only by 4% rise for the Evening Standard and the Daily Star and a 2% fall for The Guardian in the latest ABC figures.
Compared with July, overall daily newspaper circulation was up 0.45% to 12,103,114 copies, confounding expectations that sales would be down in the traditionally quiet height of summer.
The figures provide the last snapshot before a wave of 800,000 free newspapers broke over London around the end of August, in the form of Associated's London Lite and News International's thelondonpaper.
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Newspapers: Is the Record Pricing Right?
Does the Daily Record have a problem with price? The evidence suggests it can’t quite untangle itself from the concept of paid-for newspapers, even though - as events in London these last few days illustrate - the future seems to be in free newspapers, not newspapers retailing for a fiddly fifteen pence or for a couple of coins plus an even fiddlier voucher.
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National free newspaper Metro is launching a new edition in Brighton which will go head to head with Newsquest’s Argus Lite.
Associated Newspapers' Metro already has a distribution of just over 1.1 million to commuters in urban centres across the UK.
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Standard hit as London Lite claims 387,000 pick up
Associated Newspapers claims it is already within 13,000 copies of hitting its 400,000 distribution target for London Lite.
And anecdotal evidence from vendors of the paid-for Evening Standard suggests that the launch of the two new London free papers has already harmed its sales.
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Mail and Mirror go wild
The Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror are planning their own versions of nature wallcharts, first promoted by the Guardian.
The two titles are planning to distribute the wallcharts during the crucial promotional period this month when papers seek to tempt readers back after their summer holidays.
Prior to its poster giveaway, on Saturday, the Daily Mail will offer the first of a series of DVDs from the David Attenborough Wildlife Collection, featuring episodes from the naturalist's documentary series including Life on Earth, The Living Planet and The Trials of Life.
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Production Cock-up Hits Record
Some will say it’s an omen, others will happily accept it as a production cock-up; anyway, just two days after launching, the Glasgow evening edition of the Daily Record was victim to having its pages in a twist, including with copy intended for its Edinburgh edition.
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Friday 8th September 2006 sees the latest circulation figures published. The Scottish Sun is expected to have increased it's lead over the Daily Record to 14,000 copies.
Circulation figures will be available here ABC
A Newspaper Free-for-all Looms in London
In a bid to lure young, affluent urbanites from the Net, two media titans have launched rival free papers in an already overcrowded market
On Sept. 4, an army of 700 purple-clad workers took to the streets of London armed with the latest offering from Rupert Murdoch's News International: a free afternoon newspaper called thelondonpaper.
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‘If it’s free versus 50 pence, then free is going to win’
On day one of London's free newspaper battle residents of the capital were broadly upbeat about Associated Newspapers' new daily London Lite.
Press Gazette talked to a cross-section of Londoners on Wednesday lunchtime.
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One year on and business is booming at City A.M.
As London free business daily City A.M. celebrated its first birthday this week, its bosses said it was on course to move into profit this year, and they hinted that further launches outside London were now a possibility.
Editor David Parsley, who quit as business editor of the Daily Express to lead the new venture, said he believed the future of the business was now assured.
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The new newspapers
In recent days London has acquired two new evening freesheets: London Lite (previously called Standard Lite, a chopped-down freebie version of the early Evening Standard edition) and Thelondonpaper. Both are handed out by an assorted troupe of corner hawkers, all of whom seem to have been recruited on the basis of having very long arms and an ability to make Frisbee-throwing motions into a crowd of passersby at least 60 times a minute. The two new rags join the free morning paper Metro (which seems to be a cut-down freebie version of yesterday’s Evening Standard).
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'Readers are far more demanding, rightfully so'
"IF EDITING were easy, our grannies would be doing it," declares Mike Gilson, the newly-appointed editor of The Scotsman.
Few would pretend editing at The Scotsman has ever been easy. Under the ownership of the Barclays and former editor-in-chief Andrew Neil, this newspaper went through seven editors in ten years.
New Scotsman editor sets out to emphasise paper’s unique identity
The new editor of The Scotsman, Mike Gilson, has said carving out a unique identity for the paper is one of his main priorities.
Gilson, who currently edits The News in Portsmouth, said: "It's a ferocious market and there is so much competition, there are huge challenges. One of the things we need to start looking at is how The Scotsman is differentiated, how is it unique and what it is saying to its readers.
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Established evenings in fight against new Record PM editions
Despite the launch of cut-price Daily Record afternoon editions in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Monday, the established evening papers in both cities claim to have put on sales.
The editor of the Edinburgh Evening News claims its sale was 1.5 per cent up on Monday, compared with the week before. And the Glasgow Evening Times claimed it was 10,000 copies up on normal.
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Fact and Fiction Combine in Former Reporter’s New Novel
A former journalist, whose beat included crime and the law courts, has written what is believed to be a world first: a fictional sequel to his own true crime book.
Dundee-based Alexander McGregor has written Lawless, a fictional sequel to his first book, true crime bestseller, The Law Killers.
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Scots journalist pens fictional sequel to true-crime book
Former Dundee journalist Sandy McGregor will see his second book hit the shelves next month - after penning a fictional sequel to his true-crime book.
In a rare move, Sandy, who retired as chief reporter of The Courier and Evening Telegraph earlier this year, has written Lawless, a fictional sequel to The Law Killers which tells the stories of murders in Dundee.
Using a real incident as a starting point, Sandy has placed real characters alongside fictional creations for the new book.
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Features Ed Role for Ross
A former executive editor at The Scotsman has been made executive features editor of the London Evening Standard.
Charlotte Ross joins from She magazine, where she was deputy editor. She is also a former assistant editor (Saturday) at The Independent.
Two spells at The Scotsman sandwiched the first 18 months at the Sunday Herald, where she was assistant editor, edited its magazine and also its Seven Days section.
The Sun have re-launched their web site to include move visual content.
The site now includes a Reuters video player.
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Newspapers: Is the Record Pricing Right?
Does the Daily Record have a problem with price? The evidence suggests it can’t quite untangle itself from the concept of paid-for newspapers, even though - as events in London these last few days illustrate - the future seems to be in free newspapers, not newspapers retailing for a fiddly fifteen pence or for a couple of coins plus an even fiddlier voucher.
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Newspapers See More Web Ad Spending, But Focus Is Still on Print
Web newspaper ad expenditures in Q2 '06 were up by nearly one third over Q2 of last year, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) reported yesterday. Whether the intensifying ray of online sunshine can overpower the paper industry's graying print cloud, however, remains to be seen. Print ad dollars, which far outweigh online ad revenues, were down compared to Q2 2005, with national advertiser print spending down.
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Murdoch Jumps Into Free Newspaper War
A freer press? Just before dusk on Monday, reps from the newspaper empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch were deployed throughout London to hand out free evening newspapers to busy commuters.
As they took the colorful tabloid, the harrowed travellers were taking part in a brand new newspaper war. Launched that day by News International, thelondonpaper was going head-to-head with another evening freebie, introduced a week earlier by Viscount Rothermere's Associated Newspapers. The timing of London Lite was said by its owners to have been a fortuitous coincidence, but many on Fleet Street saw a savvy attempt to spoil Murdoch's plans.
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New Free UK Daily Site Launches with Four Sponsors
Even across the pond newspaper publishers are launching free metro commuter papers in an effort to fight for a shrinking pool of print ad dollars. The latest to take the plunge is News Corporation's UK division News International, publisher of The Times, The Sun and other British papers. An Editor and Publisher piece notes thelondonpaper, an afternoon daily, planned an initial run of over 400,000 copies.
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Murdoch Launches New Free Daily As 'Combat' Breaks Out
LONDON Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch yesterday launched thelondonpaper, diving into London's already crowded market for free newspapers -- a relatively new but increasingly lucrative source of media revenue.
The afternoon daily faces fierce competition from the newly launched London Lite, published by Associated Newspapers, a part of Daily Mail and General Trust PLC.
"It's gladiatorial combat," said Roy Greenslade, a professor of journalism at City University in London, "and consumers and advertisers are going to be sitting in the colosseum."
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Record's PM Edition's finally 'hit the streets'
Well, the Daily Record yesterday finally launched its PM editions in Edinburgh and Glasgow. And at the vending booth where Spike got its copy for 15p, a free packet of shortbread was thrown in for good measure.
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Record’s PM Editions Entering Tough Evening Market
The Record’s thinking, by launching its two afternoon editions - as it did yesterday, with Glasgow PM and Edinburgh PM - will be to provide its advertisers with more platforms to display their wares.
But it is a tough market they are getting into. The latest circulation figures were to prove not bad reading for the Greenock Telegraph, but there was not much cheer for any of the other regional evening papers in Scotland.
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Record launches afternoon editions
As London’s free newspaper war kicked off this week – the Daily Record in Scotland has intensified its fight with The Sun by launching two new paid for afternoon editions.
Glasgow PM and Edinburgh PM are seen as a response to the Daily Record losing its position as the top selling newspaper in Scotland.
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In Saturday's Daily Record an unchecked spell-checker may have replaced Manchester United boss 'Alex Ferguson' with 'Alex Freemason'.
This was highlighted in Monday's Scottish Sun 'Scotcha' column.
THE new editor of The Scotsman was yesterday announced by the newspaper's owners, Johnston Press.
Mike Gilson, currently editor of The News in Portsmouth, will take up the position on a date yet to be confirmed.
Mr Gilson, 43, has a track record of producing award-winning titles. The News, which he has edited since 2000, is currently the Newspaper Society's Campaigning Newspaper of the Year.
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Johnston Press moves Portsmouth editor to Scotsman
Johnston Press has appointed Mike Gilson, editor of its The News in Portsmouth, as the new editor of The Scotsman. He replaces John McGurk, who left in June for the Telegraph Group.
Gilson has edited The News since 2000 and has been a member of the Press Complaints Commission's code committee for three years.
Prior to joining The Scotsman, he was editor of The Peterborough Evening Telegraph, night editor of The Western Mail, and news editor of the Hull Daily Mail.
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News International’s free newspaper for the capital thelondonpaper has launched leading on the story about the death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin that has been running all day in the media.
mad.co.uk grabbed one of the first issues to arrive outside Oxford Circus. Rival publisher Associated Newspapers had swamped the area with distributors of London Lite, the publisher’s recently launched free rival publication.
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Free weekly newspapers have been around for years, but the launch of London's third free daily on Monday is further evidence that the public seems less inclined to pay for their news fix.
First we had the "price wars", when in the 1980s various newspapers slashed their cover prices to as little as 10p in a bid to outsell their opponent
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which publishes titles including the Times of London and the Sun in the U.K., introduces a free London newspaper today to compete with Associated Newspapers' free London Lite title.
Thelondonpaper, introduced by News Corp.'s News International unit, will be available in the evenings in London with a circulation of 400,000, News International said in an e-mailed statement. London Lite was introduced on Aug. 30 with a circulation of as many as 400,000 copies.
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It's war: thelondonpaper launches
News International's new free daily for London hit the streets of the capital with a perfect late-breaking tabloid story on the front – the death of dare-devil crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.
It also had a London-based celeb story on the front with news that Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty had been spared jail again after appearing in court on drug charges.
The new paper has a distribution of 400,000 and today went head to head today for the first time with Associated Newspapers’ London Lite, which also has a 400,000 print run.
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The Telegraph Group today confirmed that its move to a new multimillion pound integrated digital newsroom would be accompanied by job losses.
Staff at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph will start moving to new offices in in Victoria, central London, in a fortnight, with the process completed by November.
Long-term plans for the printing of a new 80-page, full-colour Telegraph are expected to be finalised by November.
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I am writing to update you on the progress of our move. More importantly I also want to outline how our business is going to change at Victoria to allow The Telegraph - with substantial investment - to make the utmost of the massive opportunities the digital revolution in information offers us.
Let me start with a word of background. Everyone in the media - print, broadcast and on-line, national and regional - faces a tough and uncertain future as digital technology creates a myriad of new ways for our customers to receive their news, and also changes forever the way it is gathered, processed and transmitted.
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News International's London free daily "integrates" editorial and commercial teams
News International revealed today that editorial at the londondpaper is to be “integrated” with the commercial departments to offer “creative solutions” to advertisers.
The free daily will be handed out by 700 distributors working in central London from 4.30pm to 7.30pm today.
It is going head to head with Associated Newspapers’ London Lite which launched last Wednesday.
Both titles have a print run of 400,000 and are aimed at young professionals.
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Former Sunday Mail Asst Ed. Dies
A former Sunday Mail assistant editor has died, after a short illness. John Myles was 70.
Better known as Jack, he was assistant editor at the paper for more than a decade until he retired, early in 1988. He had joined the Sunday Mail from the Daily Record, where he had been night editor.
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Former Daily Record Sportswriter Dies
A former Daily Record sportswriter, once one of the most familiar faces in the press boxes of either Tannadice or Dens Park football stadia in Dundee, has died.
Wallace Moore died on Saturday night, following a long illness which he bore stoically. He was 61.
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Breaking news, 1.45pm: The editor of The News newspaper in Portsmouth has been appointed the new editor of The Scotsman. Mike Gilson emerged as the successful candidate, catching most, if not all, pundits by surprise who had former Herald editor, Mark Douglas-Home, as favourite for the job, with former Sunday Herald editor, Andrew Jaspan, as a late strong possibility.
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Gilson to edit The Scotsman
Portsmouth News editor Mike Gilson is to become the new editor of The Scotsman.
The 43-year-old has been editor of Johnston Press's daily newspaper in Portsmouth since 2000, and also previously edited the group's Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
He said: "I am delighted to be appointed to such a prestigious and challenging post. The Scotsman has a fantastic history and plays a pivotal role in Scottish life.
"I am a committed journalist and any newspaper I edit places itself at the centre of debate, sparks opinion and is talked about.
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New editor for Scotsman newspaper
The Scotsman newspaper, based in Edinburgh, has appointed a new editor.
Mike Gilson, 43, is currently the editor of The News, a local newspaper in Portsmouth run by Johnston Press. He will replace John McGurk.
Johnston Press bought The Scotsman and other titles from the Barclay brothers last year.
Mr Gilson's appointment will surprise some in the media who had seen former Herald Editor Mark Douglas-Home as a favourite for the job.
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Portsmouth's Gilson to edit The Scotsman
Mike Gilson, editor of The News in Portsmouth, has been named as the new editor of The Scotsman.
Gilson, who has been an editor of Johnston Press titles for 10 years, and has edited The News since 2000. He was previously editor of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
He is a member of the Press Complaints Commission's code committee after having served on Johnston Press' Editorial Review Group. He is chairman of the company's Digital Publishing Working Party advising on future newsroom operations in the digital age.
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Scotsman names new editor
Mike Gilson, editor of the News in Portsmouth, has been named editor of one of Johnston Press's flagship titles, the Scotsman.
In a move that will take him from the south coast of England to Edinburgh, Mr Gilson, 43, takes over the Scotsman editor's chair from John McGurk, who left Scotsman Publications in June after two years at the helm.
Johnston Press bought the Scotsman from the Barclay brothers in December last year for £160m.
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From tomorrow the capital will have four free papers targeted at affluent commuters. Can they all survive, asks Mark Kleinman
THE crowded street outside Moorgate Tube station in the City hardly seemed like an obvious place to witness the opening shots in Britain’s latest media war.
As hundreds of commuters inched their way through the ticket barriers last Wednesday evening, many would have barely noticed an enthusiastic young woman handing out copies of a hitherto-unseen newspaper called London Lite.
“Take a copy. Go on, you know you want to,” she yelled at passers-by.
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News International's London paper launches today
News International's free newspaper, the London Paper, hits the streets for the first time today at 4.30pm, with its website launching at the same time.
TheLondonPaper.com will go live as 400,000 copies of the free newspaper are handed out by 700 distributors, clad in purple to match the paper's masthead, in central London.
News International's title will compete for readers with Associated Newspapers' rival freesheet London Lite, and its 50p London Evening Standard.
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The Daily Record, one of Scotland's best selling newspapers, is expected to launch a separate evening edition.
Daily Record PM is expected to be sold in Glasgow and Edinburgh from 1500 BST, although the launch date has not been confirmed by owners Trinity Mirror.
Twenty journalists have been taken on to work on the paper, which will cover local news aimed at the two cities.
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Murdoch's free London paper to launch with 400,000 copies
News International is to print 400,000 copies of its new freesheet, thelondonpaper, when it is launched a week today in direct competition with Associated Newspaper's new free paper, London Lite.
The sizeable print run is expected to be matched by copies of London Lite, which launches on Wednesday this week. It comes after sales of the London Evening Standard, Associated's paid-for title, have fallen nearly 20% in the year to July, to 300,993.
Les Hinton, News International chairman, told the Guardian thelondonpaper was aimed at younger readers living within the M25, who were not being served by the Evening Standard or its free sister paper. Its circulation was, he said, a "Home Counties sale".
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Read all About It - on the Side of a Bus
A bemused newsagent wonders why he has not officially been informed of the price or launch date of the Daily Record PM editions, when, today, it is being advertised as 15p, from Monday, on the sides of buses.
Spike understands The Daily Record returns to its full price on Monday - ie no vouchers any more.
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Regional newspaper hit by sales decline
Out of some 85 regional daily newspapers in Britain – just one is selling more now than a year ago.
The regional newspaper ABC figures – released at midday – reveal that only the Irish News in Belfast is up year-on-year looking at sales over the first half of this year. It was 1.6 per cent up to 49,046.
Elsewhere average sales declines are running at about five per cent.
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Newspaper Society ditches regional press league tables
The Newspaper Society has dumped its long-held practice of producing league tables of regional newspaper circulation, saying that they no longer paint an accurate picture.
The body that represents the regional newspaper industry said falling circulations had been offset by increased distribution of free editions and websites.
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