20 Mar 2006
| by by Alex Donohue
LONDON - The Observer will unveil a new Sunday property supplement on March 26, aimed at readers...Property, edited by Observer journalist Jill Insley, is planned as a five times a year full ...
of spring, a traditionally busy period in the market.
The Observer says Property will include practical ...
, said: "This vibrant new property supplement draws upon the editorial strength of The Observer to give ...
02 Aug 2009
| by Staff
that would see The Observer newspaper closed as part of an effort to cut costs and secure the future...The Observer and turning it into a weekly news magazine, which would be published on a Thursday. However ...
alternative options were examined, including the idea of keeping The Observer going, but in a slimmed down ...
News Media, which owns both papers, plans in 2009. News of a possible closure of The Observer ...
10 Nov 2009
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - The Observer is to shrink from seven to four sections and close its sport, music and Woman...section into the Observer Magazine. The changes will coincide with a redesign, leaving the paper with a news, sport, and expanded review section plus the Observer Magazine. The only one of its glossy monthly magazines to survive the cull is the Observer Food Monthly. Observer staff were told of the changes, which ...
17 Aug 2009
| by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - Union members at the Guardian and Observer NUJ chapel have condemned Guardian Media Group...of ABC figures, which cover the period before a concerted 'Save The Observer' campaign was started ...
that they will try to save The Observer and will also resist compulsory redundancies. Following a vote, a motion was passed declaring: "The Guardian and Observer NUJ chapel believes that the survival of the Observer ...
24 Feb 2005
| by Staff
LONDON - The Observer is the first national Sunday newspaper to introduce its own weblog so it can...The blog will go live from Sunday February 27 at Observer.co.uk/blog
It aims to take a ...
and even influence decision-making.
The blog will be written by The Observer's website editor and leader writer Rafael Behr, as well as selected Observer journalists.
Roger Alton, editor of The Observer ...
05 Aug 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - A campaign to save The Observer newspaper, which faces possible closure by the Guardian...feed has been publicising details of the evolving story on the fate of the Observer following the news leaked at the weekend that Guardian Media Group is considering its future. A Facebook Save the Observer ...
Republic Gordon's Republic: Desperate measures -- closing The Observer. ...
01 Mar 2005
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
after almost 20 years to join The Observer as managing editor....Thompson replaces John Duncan, who is leaving to go to the US. She will report to Observer editor Roger Alton and Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Newspapers.
Thompson has been managing ...
to tabloid."
The Observer's January ABC figure was 446,818 and The Independent on Sunday's was 206 ...
14 Aug 2009
| by Staff
LONDON - Investment Group Capital Ideas says it has made a bid to buy The Observer newspaper...The Observer brand, in the style of The Week. If its bid were successful, Capital Ideas said it would slim ...
The Observer or turning it into a weekly news publication. The Observer's average six-month circulation ...
measures -- closing The Observer ...
09 Nov 2007
| by Darren Davidson
LONDON - The Observer, which last month announced its award-winning editor Roger Alton is stepping...The title, which has appointed Alton s deputy John Mulholland as his replacement, recorded a circulation of 487,216 copies in October. The Observer s six-month average figure fell 0.83% to 458,613 copies, the smallest drop reported by any title in the national Sunday market. The Sunday Times ...
21 Aug 2009
| by Jennifer Whitehead
Media Group has "seriously misjudged" the situation with The Observer by threatening to close it....: "The danger now is the negative publicity GMG has created by threatening to close The Observer ...
this month it emerged that GMG was seriously considering the future of its Sunday newspaper The Observer ...
in 2008. Among the plans being considered are a slimmed-down version of The Observer ...