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Media analysts have focused on the prospect of further mergers and acquisitions in the still highly fragmented regional and local newspaper market, as Trinity Mirror confirmed this week it was in talks to buy the shares inLocal World which it did not already own. Trinity Mirror and Local World each publish around 100 newspapers in print and digital. Local [...]
Guardian News & Media (GNM) has today announced a major reorganisation of its commercial operations, with the creation of three new business units: one focusing on its relationships with readers; one on agencies and clients; and a third on GNM’s print business. The existing marketing, membership and subscriptions teams will be brought together into one [...]
Newsquest Media Group, one of the UK’s leading regional media groups, has launched the Droitwich News in Worcestershire. It will be an edition of the Worcester News covering the famous spa town of Droitwich and will consist of eight change pages each day. New staff have been recruited, and there will be special emphasis on user generated copy and [...]
Trinity Mirror has announced the launch of the Conncted Newsroom, next stage of the digital-first regional media strategy. The Connected Newsroom builds on the successful Newsroom 3.1 strategy which was first introduced in the North East in April 2014 and subsequently rolled out to all of Trinity Mirror’s regional daily businesses. This is a key part of the [...]
Lord Black of Brentwood, chairman of the News Media Association’s legal, policy and regulatory affairs committee, has called for “tighter controls” on the BBC’s online news services to prevent it from crowding out commercial rivals through an unsustainable competitive advantage. Speaking in a House of Lords debate on the BBC yesterday (Thursday) Lord Black, executive director of Telegraph Media [...]
The Board of Trinity Mirror plc has noted the recent media speculation and confirms that it is in discussions with Local World Holdings Limited for the potential acquisition of the shares not already owned by Trinity Mirror plc. There is no certainty that any agreement will be reached. A further announcement will be made if [...]
Local media now reaches 40 million people across print and online a week, according to the latest data from JICREG. The overall audience of the industry has risen strongly in the last year, fuelled by a growth in digital audiences for the industry, particularly on mobile Local Media Works has updated its headline industry statistics to produce [...]
Group brand director at Aviva Jan Gooding is joining the Publishers Audience Measurement Company(PAMCo) as the new chair of the organisation, it has been announced. As chair, Jan will be responsible for overseeing the strategic thinking of the board of directors and will work alongside the organisation’s chief executive, Simon Redican, and the PAMCo team. Jan, pictured, who is also [...]
News Corp has announced leadership changes at News UK, with the appointment ofRebekah Brooks as chief executive officer, David Dinsmore as chief operating officer, and Tony Gallagher as editor-in-chief of The Sun, Britain’s largest selling daily newspaper. Ms. Brooks will replace Mike Darcey, who is departing as CEO after three years in the post, during which time he stabilised the company and [...]
EDP and EADT Political Editor Annabelle Dickson has been promoted to the newly-created role of group political editor, Archant, with immediate effect. Annabelle, who leads the lobby group of journalists at the House of Commons, has been political editor of the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times for the past two years and helped shape [...]
