rbi

The end of an era at RBI (nearly) Members Public

With the disposal of Farmers Weekly, my former employer is all but out of the journalism business.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
rbi

B2B publishers no more Members Public

From Patrick Smith’s Media Briefing e-mail a couple of weeks ago [http://briefingmedialtd.createsend1.com/t/r-e-hkxdhk-mdyykuip-hl/](it was two days after my daughter was born, so I was a bit too busy to read it back then 😉 ) : > In this context, should I stop saying “publisher” to refer

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
B2B

Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby Members Public

I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
aggregation

RBI sheds TotalJobs Members Public

I saw some search traffic hitting my blog this morning for “TotalJobs divestment”. Now I know why [http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/04/axel-springer-buying-totaljobs-for-110-million-in-digital-classifieds-offensive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29] : > Reed Business Information’s sell-offs really aren’t

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
disposals

Online publishing is not necessarily the next home of traditional publishers Members Public

Matthew Ingram has written a typically thoughtful and insightful piece about the bind newspaper publishers find themselves in [http://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/why-digital-native-media-will-almost-always-win/], all inspired by this graph from LinkedIn [http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/03/08/economic-report/]: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
business models

An Ending Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_1473.jpg] [![Au Revoir](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_1476-thumb-520x390-2277.jpg?resize=520%2C390)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/IMG_1476.jpg)

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
office life

Wanted: New Challenges Members Public

Yesterday, I returned from my best holiday in years, refreshed, revitalised and ready for the challenges ahead. Our blog platform needed revamping, there was a ton of mobile strategy work to be done, we needed to brainstorm easy win funnel content for one of our magazines, we needed to press

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
jobhunt

Covering air shows, the RBI way Members Public

I posted this on Twitter last week, but I think it’s worth reposting here. Here’s how FlightGlobal moves a whole chunk of its publishing operations to air shows, so they can maximise their coverage: [via Runway Girl [http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2011/10/video-how-flightglobal-covers.html] ]

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
flightglobal