Independent News & Media Share Discussion Threads

[caveat_emptor] 28/2/2014 12:06

Vincent says the way is now clear for an island of Ireland operation...
Does that mean everything abroad will be sold?

[caveat_emptor] 24/2/2014 09:21

The Australians have it upside down...according to the Irish Times.

[caveat_emptor] 21/2/2014 09:06

Presumably, the INDO's stake is now worth the same although 10% less

[caveat_emptor] 20/2/2014 07:56

If he buys the indo Stake he will have 31% of APN?

[caveat_emptor] 19/2/2014 11:15

Nice to see a really good strategy unfold......

[caveat_emptor] 19/2/2014 10:29

Looks a fair deal down under.
wonder if DOB will participate down there...back door into radio...
Suits his investment strategy?

[caveat_emptor] 18/2/2014 09:28

INK on your fingers and the daily news with breakfast will be a part of life in regional Australia for many years to come.

That's the good news we're getting straight from our readers.

Figures released this month by Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (emma) show print media - especially in a regional setting - is alive and well. In fact, it is thriving and looking to a bright future.

A total of 75% of regional Australian residents have read a newspaper in the past week.

For APN Australian Regional Media (APN-ARM), the Sunshine Coast Daily's parent company, 77% of people living within the company's footprint picked up a paper last week.

Encouragingly, 76% of APN-ARM readers believe local newspapers will continue being important into the future.

APN-ARM reaches 1.3million people across its network every week.

APN-ARM chief executive Neil Monaghan said that number alone spelled good news for regional newspapers, their audiences and clients.

"It demonstrates that strong local content, produced by local teams continues to attract a strong audience," he said.

The new audience and readership metrics represent a new dawn for newspaper consumption analysis. For companies such as APN-ARM, it is a truer indication of total product audience across all platforms.

APN-ARM Insights manager, Meagan Quinlivan said emma was designed to be a dynamic and fluid metric, with the ability to quickly adapt to the industry's fast pace of change and transition.

"It is a completely new way of measuring newspaper readership and audience," she said.

"The encouraging news for newspapers and magazines - certainly for APN-ARM - is that we will have the ability to measure consumption across all print and online platforms."

Ms Quinlivan also said APN-ARM's regional disposition meant there were certain specific and bespoke factors which needed to be accounted for in this initial results release, following the transition from the previous measurement.

THE FACTS

77% of residents have read a newspaper in the past week

APN-ARM reaches more than 1.3million unique audience members each week

73% of readers agree local newspapers are their main source of information about what is going on in their areas

76% of readers believe local newspapers will be important in the future

68% of readers would miss their local newspaper if it wasn't available

81% of readers agree they try to shop locally

Source: emma, conducted by Ipsos MediaCT, People aged 14+ in APN-ARM Regions, Period ending October 2013 APN-ARM monthly aggregate audience figure, as developed with Nielsen November 2012. More at www.apnarm.com.au/audience

More information also at www.emma.com.au

[carlo sartori] 18/2/2014 07:19

Hi Caveat..........what do you mean?

[caveat_emptor] 26/1/2014 07:59

Subediting and production back in house.

[caveat_emptor] 18/1/2014 08:05

Independent News & Media is expected to announce cutbacks at its Irish publishing operations shortly. The company is due to hold a board meeting next week, at which its cost-cutting targets for 2014 will be discussed, it is understood.

INM chief executive Vincent Crowley signalled before Christmas that the media group was examining a fresh round of cost-savings and that this would include a mixture of redundancies and productivity gains.

"Inevitably there are some headcount reductions that will arise," he said.

Subeditors employed by Real-time Editing & Design (RE&D), to which INM outsourced certain production functions in 2007, have been asked by their chief executive Terry Kavanagh to attend a meeting next Thursday for an update on changes to its Dublin operation.

INM last year merged some of the editorial operations of the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Evening Herald at its headquarters on Talbot Street in Dublin, with a view to yielding cost savings.

[caveat_emptor] 15/1/2014 11:56

Yes, and if the strategy is what it is,
it should be visible down under end feb

[carlo sartori] 15/1/2014 09:04

Lets hope the rise continues into 2014 Caveat. I think that the first interim statement provided by INM (post restructure) if positive, may well be supportive of a jump in share price

Carlo

[caveat_emptor] 14/1/2014 14:27

good call Carlo....

[caveat_emptor] 13/1/2014 17:30

I would credit him with being the only independent financial analyst voice in print in Ireland,
but I would prefer that his articles say he owns no shares in the companies he writes about,
for obvious reasons.

[caveat_emptor] 13/1/2014 17:30

You used the word TIP which is exactly what the Regulator got the magazine to say every
week that he is not doing......

An Irish solution to an Irish tipster...?

[carlo sartori] 13/1/2014 09:33

The reason I asked is that in one issue in c.June 2013 the two companies covered/tipped were Ormonde Mining and INM and I noticed you are also a contributor to the Ormonde Mining Board!

I have found MoneyBags to be correct / incorrect in equal measure when it comes to tipping, however I do think that some of the articles are thought provoking and look at things from "different" angles.

Carlo

[caveat_emptor] 13/1/2014 07:26

I do.cum grano sails, as it is never clear whether or not he trades the shares he
writes about.

[carlo sartori] 12/1/2014 17:40

Hi Caveat,

Do you read Moneybags in The Phoenix magazine?

[carlo sartori] 07/1/2014 14:11

Has been a nice positive start to 2014 for INM...............lets hope the trend continues?

Carlo.

[caveat_emptor] 31/12/2013 08:57

WE have´nt see any announcement of the adjustment
of DOB´s shares back to 29% etc. We have seen the Total Voting Rights this
morning and the Dessie total last week.
Is this morning´s rns sort of "cart before the horse"

[caveat_emptor] 20/12/2013 11:24

Bang on Carlo!!!