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DMGT has reported underlying revenue in line with last year for the five months to the end of February 2015. Its B2B businesses reported strong underlying revenue growth of 4% during the period. In February, Hobsons, dmg information's education business, acquired Starfish Retention Solutions, the US based provider of higher education student support and advising systems. [...]
Archant’s Mustard TV is one year old and to celebrate it has announced the launch of the Mustard TV Celebration Fund on its birthday, March 24. The Fund will support three of the region’s outstanding charities, and provide a funding pot open to the county’s community groups and good causes. The fundraising drive over the next year will [...]
Dr Mark Johnson has joined The Printing Charity as Helps and Futures manager to help the charity increase the number of people it supports year-on-year. As well as managing the charity’s day-to-day Helps programme of financial support for individuals, he is responsible for developing long-term relationships with organisations and other charities to increase uptake of the [...]
Media group Johnston Press has secured a multi-million-pound deal to print the Daily Express and the Daily Star. The announcement of the five year deal came today (see story on home page news feed)as the company revealed an increase in underlying pre-tax profit of 235 per cent to £29.9 million last year- up from £8.9 million a year earlier. [...]
• Restructuring on schedule with positive effects • Group sales of €1.1bn on a par with prior year • Positive results in both business segments • €14.1m operating profit and €5.5m pre-tax profit • Operating cash flow over €43m and high net liquidity • Outlook 2015: Similar sales with higher EBT margin • Koenig & [...]
The Board of Trinity Mirror PLC has noted the recent media speculation and confirms that it is at an early stage of evaluating certain of Northern & Shell’s assets. There is no certainty that any agreement will be reached in respect of the range of outcomes currently under consideration. A further announcement will be made [...]
Shortlists for the newsawards 2015 have been announced and all five products submitted by Mortons Media Group are in the running for honours. The Lincolnshire-based printer and publisher has been nominated for Regional Newspaper Printer of the Year for its production of the Hackney Citizen and the Hull Daily Mail, while the trio of Cage [...]
UK campaigning and investigative journalism was celebrated at The Press Awards for national newspapers organised by the Society of Editors this week. The Times took the main accolades of the evening, winning eight awards including the newspaper of the year title, news reporter of the year award and the Cudlipp Award in recognition of its [...]
A video promoting journalism apprenticeships has been unveiled on the NCTJ website to mark National Apprenticeship Week (9-13 March). The video was commissioned by the NCTJ to raise awareness of the training scheme as a route into journalism. It features contributions from apprentices, training providers and employers from the newspaper, magazine, broadcast and online sectors. [...]
The Communities Department has issued written notice of a direction it proposes to issue to three councils, Hackney Council, Newham Council andWaltham Forest Council, which would require them to cease publication of their fortnightly council papers. The councils now have 14 days to make written representations to Secretary of State Eric Picklesabout the proposed direction [...]
