The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
IT LOOKS like Irish corporate financiers hoping that Johnston Press’s woes might see its 11 titles in the Republic being placed on the market again – thereby earning them a juicy fee – will be disappointed, for the time being at least.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
A mammoth £109m write-down related to the declining worth of its titles pushed regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press, the owner of the Scotsman and Evening News, deep into the red, the group’s latest financial results revealed yesterday.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Johnston Press ad revenues drop 21pcBy Dominic WhiteJohnston Press shocked the market with news that advertising revenues had plunged 21pc in the first seven weeks of its second half, sending shares in the regional newspaper group tumbling 7pc.The company, which is 20pc owned by Malaysian investment firm Usaha Tegas, also fell £116m into the red in the first half after taking an impairment charge of...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
JOHNSTON Press yesterday revealed that tumbling returns from the property and job markets had left its advertising revenues down more than a fifth.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Johnston Press, owner of The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, admitted yesterday that newspaper advertising revenues had plunged 23 per cent in the first three weeks of August - the fastest rate of decline that the group had experienced this year.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The woes of Johnston Press, the regional newspaper group, continued yesterday as it posted a 15.6 per cent fall in operating profits following a substantial fall in ad sales.
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The outlook for UK news publishers is as gray and overcast as this summer's weather has been , as the latest earnings testify. Johnston Press, the country's second largest regional news company with 300 weekly titles and 323 websites, saw pre-tax profit slump 18.1 percent to £62.5 million ($115 million) in the six months to June 30, as the economic downturn grew sharper and hit advertising, especially...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Regional newspaper group Johnston Press missed expectations for first-half sales as advertising sales fell 10 percent, and it said they fell a further 21 percent in the first seven weeks of the second half.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The Scotsman publisher Johnston Press's earnings are a sorry site for a grey, drizzly morning. Yes, the group saw digital revenue grow 52.1 percent to an unstated figure in the six months to June 30. But overall advertising revenue fell 9.5 percent, causing tre-tax profit to slump 18.1 percent year-on-year to £62.5 million, on 6.3 percent worse revenue of £293.1 million. Johnston is in trouble. It...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Johnston Press, the regional newspaper group whose titles include The Scotsman and The Yorkshire Post, revealed that advertising revenues in July and the first three weeks of August plunged by 21 per cent, as the rate of decline continued to accelerate as the economy slowdown.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The owner of the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post illustrated the challenges facing the regional newspaper industry on Wednesday after reporting a near 10 per cent fall in revenues for the first six months of the year and saying the second half will be worse
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
EVENING NEWS publisher Johnston Press saw profits drop more than 15 per cent over the first half of the year, after a fall in advertising revenue of 9.5 per cent.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
THE struggling newspaper group Johnston Press will this week will be stung by a £100m-plus impairment charge and is expected to scrap its interim dividend as it closes in on selecting a new chief executive.
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
National Union of Journalists’ representatives from across Johnston Press’s main publishing centres have unanimously backed a motion of no confidence in the company’s senior management and urged shareholders and communities to act to save their local Source: blogs.guardian.co.uk ‘All journalism is drivel’ - The InquirerJOURNALIST NICK DAVIES has written a coruscating attack on UK [...]
