Award Winning Newspaper Printer
Mortons Print has been named Regional Newspaper Printer of the Year at the prestigious national Newsawards 2017. The Horncastle-based company wowed judges with the high quality of its print work on a range of weekly and specialist newspapers. Chairman of judges Gary Cullum said Mortons Print was the “clear winner” for judges, who described the [...]
THE World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra) and the World Editors Forum, in conjunction with the FOJO Media Institute, are calling on media worldwide to support stronger protections for women journalists in a text released to mark the 250th anniversary celebrations of Sweden’s ‘Freedom of the Press Act’, the first of its kind [...]
The Sunday Times has the best performance of a Sunday national newspaper in the latest ABC print sales figures. The News UK title increased both month-on-month and year-on-year sales in the October statistics from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). The Sunday Times recorded a weekly average sale in October of 781,237 – a rise [...]
Out now - November/December printed PJ. Features roundup from the Society of Editors annual conference, plus Caryl Holland’s interview with Greg Hayes, group managing directior at Sun Chemical about market challenges, customer support, Brexit and the future of print.
Customers, suppliers and staff members gathered at The Forest Pines Golf Club for the annual Mortons Golf day on Friday 11th May. Blessed with dry conditions once again and the course proving as challenging as ever, some excellent golf was played along with the usual ‘not so excellent’. Winner was former Barrelfield director Nik Evans. [...]
Dundee newspaper, the Evening Telegraph, is extending its offering and launching a Saturday edition, the Weekend Telegraph. The Weekend Telegraph will feature the same mix of exclusive local news, unmissable sport, features, offers and competitions that have made the Tele Dundee’s best-selling newspaper. It will be priced at 55p and will include a 24-page entertainment magazine with [...]
Trinity Mirror reported a Group record audience of 137.6m unique browsers in July, according to the latest ABCe figures release. The 137.6m figure represents a 19% month-on-month increase and a year-on-year surge of 27%. Today’s figures are the first ABCe report to include former Local World website traffic in Trinity Mirror’s figures. Excluding former Local World traffic the Group [...]
Brian Doel, owner of the regional West Country Sunday Independent has died sudenly, aged 70. Mr Doel, who retired as group managing director of Tindle Newspapers in May 2014 to return to his publication in the far South West of England died while he and his wife were in Cornwall on Saturday night. Only hours [...]
An influential committee of both Houses of Parliament has endorsed the News Media Association’s call for the new Counter-Terrorism Bill to be subject to enhanced scrutiny to protect free speech. In a report published today, the Joint Human Rights Select Committee said that the Government has so far failed to provide a “coherent or sufficiently precise definition” of key concepts in [...]
City media analyst Lorna Tilbian has said that advertisers must learn to fall in love with newspapers once again, pointing to the boost to revenue return on investment achieved by including print on media schedules. In an article for the News Media Association published today, Lorna Tilbian, executive PLC director and head of media, Numis, cited the circulation increases enjoyed by newspapers [...]
