Johnston Press plan for survival: Social, Local, Mobile
The man who launched the BBC iPlayer on-demand service, who then jumped ship into Project Kangaroo before bouncing into Microsoft as a VP for UK Consumer and Online landed as the CEO of Johnston Press on 1 November 2011. Yesterday Ashley Highfield announced his plans to improve the viability of Johnston Press’ stable of 18 daily and 245 weekly newspapers, along with their 273 local websites, taking five daily papers weekly by the end of May. Long term, he sees …