This week news that Fox is back in talks with Disney. LA Times suggests background of scale required to compete online. Still waiting on talks but so far I cannot find any info on what happens to the print aspects. Will they form a viable unit? ( Roy Greenslade in Guardian mentions the Sun has three different versions of editorial in print for UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic. Could not work so easily if Sun part of a global website. )
Last week worries about Daily Mail group circulation and other issues caused a significant drop in share price. Roughly 700 to 550, still there today.
Jeff Jarvis has written about stories as a loop, something else happens so the first story can be rewritten, just a bit different. Also there can be new comment.
Meanwhile still no news on Trinity Mirror and Express. Problems may be around pensions. Scenario could be that Desmond gets cash and pension funds get the print business. Possible future story on how the valuations got past trustees.
Still expected that Guardian will be tabloid printed by Trinity Mirror. This could be viable if enough new contracts compensate for circulation declines in Trinity Mirror itself.
This post also relates to blog on IPEX. There will be spare machinery, where will it go?
Not off topic for this blog. Fleet Street seems to me to be declining as influence. The Telegraph story on "mutineers" was not much supported by other tabloids. Things are moving online. There is energy for Moggmentum, Westmonster, Breitbart London, Unherd. More on this later.
Also more loops on UK newspapers.
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