Forget the media gloom of shrinking circulations,shrivelling revenues, blocked ads and all the woes of change and upheaval. There are reasons – modest but instructive reasons – to be cheerful: safe things from 2015 set to get better in 2016.
One thing is the price that quality still commands. An conventional, or distressingly pink newspaper,founded in 1888: that would be £844m of Nikkei’s money for the Financial Times. And an even older – 1843 – news magazine founded to fight for the repeal of the Corn Laws: that would be £469m for a mere 50% of Economist action. Two fine, seasoned brands turning a profit and moving to grow digitally as well as in print.
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Source: theguardian.com