links for 2011-01-18

The two Mail titles made 80 million from retail advertising in 2009, half of it from supermarket brands, and it may have made in the region of 100 million from the same people in 2010, as TheMediaBriefing contributor Peter Kirwan pointed out. And that's not all of it: Associated Newspaper Loading… industries newspaper s made 850 million in 2010, with ad revenue up 7 percent at 374 million. These are Big Numbers.

And so, let’s talk about Hunt’s interest in spreading media access – specifically intensely local television news production – to centres outside London. He suggests, the “London broadcast intelligentsia” is out of step with the rest of the country on whether local TV could be successful.

Thanks to the massive interest in hyperlocal blogs a lot of journalism courses are either asking their students to create hyperlocal websites, or finding their students are creating them anyway. This post is to ask what your own experiences are on these lines?