Outside somewhere, in a time long ago, before even Jean-Claude Decaux had pasted his first poster, the Romans were using the walls of Pompeii to advertise tourist destinations, local shops and political campaigns to the visiting masses.
Ahead of a raft of six month data for magazines being released today, Nicholas Coleridge, president of Condé Nast International, warns "bureaucracy, pedantry and timidity" at the Audit Bureau of Circulations is standing in the way of progress.
The release this week of the latest ABC six-month report charting the sales trends of the UK's leading magazines is causing fractures within the industry. Arif Durrani reports
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