Media roundup: Guardian, BBC Worldwide, Olympics, Archant, Daily Mail, Express

We bring you the buzz from the wider media sphere, across the world and across the web. This week: Guardian prepares for more job losses; BBC World 103.5m pre-tax profits; non-sponsors take outdoor Olympic sites; Archant sees record visitor growth; Daily Mail and Daily Express see circulation spike in June.

 

Guardian prepares for more job cuts as losses mount in 2012
Guardian Media Group, parent to The Guardian and The Observer, is paving the way for a new round of job cuts tomorrow, with an internal meeting set to confirm another difficult year of trading will result in the re-emergence of a voluntary redundancy programme.

BBC Worldwide reports pre-tax profit of £103.5m
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, returned a record £216m to the BBC in the 2011/12 financial year, following the £121m sale of BBC Magazines and the business making underlying pre-tax profits of £103.5m.

Non-sponsors buy majority of Olympic outdoor sites
Non-sponsors are understood to have taken the majority of the outdoor media sites within the vicinity of the Olympic venues since rules restricting them to Games sponsors were loosened in January.

Archant has success with local aggregator website
Archant, the regional publisher, is claiming record growth in visitors to its local aggregator website London24.com, which hosts local news from the publisher's 19 London-based newspapers.

Newspaper ABCs: Daily Mail and Express benefit from Diamond Jubilee

The Daily Mail and Daily Express both registered circulation bounces in June, as their considerable coverage of the Diamond Jubilee paid off.