Print media circulation still down

BizCommunity reports that recent Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for 2010 show that South African newspaper and magazine circulation remains on the back foot almost a year since the end of the global economic crisis and an ensuing local economic recovery. Read the full story.

• Some titles have seen an increase in circulation - what do they have in common? How can this help print media survive?
• What are the reasons given for this general drop in circulation?
• What solutions are given?
• What do YOU think the future of print media looks like, and why?

Newspaper for the iPad

Is the end nigh for traditional newspapers? Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation seems set to launch a digital newspaper for the iPad called “The Daily”.In an interview in April with The Kalb Report, Murdoch called the iPad a “glimpse of the future”.
“There’s going to be tens of millions of these things sold all over the world,” he said. “It may be the saving of newspapers because you don’t have the costs of paper, ink, printing, trucks.
“I’m old, I like the tactile experience of the newspaper,” Murdoch admitted, but “if you have less newspapers and more of these that’s OK.”
So maybe not the death knell for newspapers, but just a change of medium?Read the full story.

• Do YOU think this is the beginning of the end for traditional newspapers?

Sunday Times' Zulu edition

The Sunday Times has just launched a Zulu edition of its paper in KZN - it's got much the same content as the English version as well as a little orginal content. Visit www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=32014 to read the full story on the new paper - time will tell if this project is a success, and it's definitely something we need to follow as it could change the face of the newspaper business.