news in brief... international herald naMe to go The International Herald Tribune is to be renamed the International New York Times. The famous IHT title will disappear in the autumn. The paper’s publisher, the New York Times company ,said the change will be accompanied by an expansion of a multi-platform service “tailored and edited specifically for global audiences”. another paper on buffet Menu Warren Buffet, the investor, has bought his 28th daily newspaper with the purchase of Oklahoma’s Tulsa World. Mr Buffett bought the paper through his BH Media Group from the Lorton family, which has owned it since 1917. tiMe warner spins off Magazines Time Warner is to turn its magazine unit Time Inc into a separate, publicly traded company after talks to sell the publisher failed.
Making europe’s media more accountable
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he NUJ is throwing its weight behind a new initiative to call big media to account throughout Europe. The European initiative for Media Pluralism is a campaign initiated by about 100 civil society organisations, media and professional bodies throughout Europe. it is pressing for legislation to put curbs on big media groups and protect media
pluralism in Europe. it also wants to ensure that media watchdogs are independent of political power and influence and clearer divisions between those in the media and politics. The campaign seeks regular health checks on Europe’s media to ensure these standards are being met. individuals can help force the European Commission to
take notice of the campaign by signing an online petition and urging all their contacts to do so too. you can do this on the European Commission’s website. There needs to be a million signatures for the commission to take action on the initiative. Find the petition address by searching the NUJ website www.nuj.org.uk for ‘media pluralism’.
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ales of Ireland’s daily and Sunday national newspapers continued to slide in the last half of 2012 The Irish Times’s circulation fell eight per cent to an average 88,356 copies
a day. The Irish Independent slipped 5.5 per cent to a daily sale of 123,981. The third-placed national daily, The Examiner, dropped by six per cent to just under 40,000.
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The campaign seeks regular health checks on Europe’s media
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The Sunday World, declined 13.6 per cent with a six-monthly average of 217,141, and the broadsheet Sunday Business Post slipped by 11.5 per cent to 39,416. The Sunday Independent’s 5.4 per cent drop took its sales to 237,185.
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