Award Winning Newspaper Printer
NATIONAL and local newspapers’ digital advertising, driven by a surge in mobile, grew at the fastest rate of all media last year, according to statistics published by the Advertising Association/Warc this week. The data showed that digital advertising for local newspapers grew 24.7 per cent and national newspapers by 16.4 per cent – ahead of [...]
THE Guardian, i, Leicester Mercury, West Ferry Printers and Interpress NI were the big winners at last night’s newsawards 2015, the only awards that celebrate the best in news media print, digital and business innovation. More than 500 industry team leaders, managers and executives gathered at the Lancaster London for the gala event, hosted by [...]
Archant has announced the sale of three of its specialist consumer magazine titles, The English Home, The English Garden and Discover Britain, to the Chelsea Magazine Company. The sale completed at the beginning of April and around 20 Archant staff transferred with the titles and brand extensions to Chelsea Magazines – who are now leasing the top floor of the [...]
From Friday 17th April readers of the Scottish edition of The Times will be able to explore some of the premier properties on the market in Scotland, and from around Britain, as the award-winning Bricks & Mortar property supplement is included free every Friday. The supplement will have a section focusing exclusively on property in Scotland and will see the [...]
Rubbing shoulders with the Prime Minister, climbing into a cage full of tigers and helping convict a child killer - it's all been in a day's work for The Hunts Post's long-serving photographer Helen Drake. March 17 marked 20 years since Helen started at Archant’s Huntingdon office, having successfully completed a YTS training course at the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. While most [...]
Archant’s Ham&High newspaper has launched a #MakeYourMark campaign calling on voters to register by the April 20 deadline so they can have their say in England’s tightest three-way marginal seat, Hampstead and Kilburn, on May 7. In 2010, there were just 42 votes separating victors Labour with candidate Glenda Jackson and the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats around 800 votes short of the winners. [...]
A question mark hangs over a number of Government initiatives seen as pivotal to supporting a healthy, vibrant local news media sector, with the Labour Party silent on whether or not it would continue them if it wins the general election in May. The Party has not responded to repeated requests from the News Media [...]
Archant’s North Devon Gazette has broken new ground with the first of two online hustings events. All six of North Devon’s General Election candidates went to the Gazette’s Barnstaple office to take part in the live debate. Reporters Sarah Howells and Elliot Anderton fielded the questions on a liveScribble feed, mainly submitted by readers in advance, but also by those taking part on the [...]
Annabelle Dickson, Newspaper Conference chairman and political editor of Archant's Anglia titles, has argued in a debate that local newspapers will be pivotal to the outcome of the general election in May. Annabelle told the audience at the debate on local media and the election sponsored by JICREG that the “hundreds of marginal constituencies” are where the election [...]
Trinity Mirror’s regional titles launched their General Election coverage today by publishing manifestos based on the views of more than 18,000 readers. The first in a series of regional election initiatives, the 'My Manifesto' project aims to cut through the national political agenda and find out what local readers really want from the election. A list of [...]
