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The Essex Chronicle Media Group has picked up 13 nominations at the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards 2014. The Essex Chronicle picked up the lion's share with 11 nominations, including Weekly Paid For Newspaper of the Year - an award which went to sister title the Brentwood Gazette last year. The weekly has also been shortlisted in [...]

The rate of growth of UK advertising expenditure halved from the second to the third quarter, according to data from the Advertising Association and Warc, while full-year forecasts have been revised downwards A slowdown in the third quarter was expected after the boost to figures given by the FIFA World Cup earlier in the year. [...]

The Daily Mail has partnered with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to offer journalism training scholarships to two young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Trust was founded by Stephen’s mother Doreen Lawrence, now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, in 1998 and has helped disadvantaged students into careers in architecture – the profession which Stephen wanted to enter. It [...]

In a debate on media plurality in the House of Lords last night (Wednesday), the government restated  there was “no doubt” that media plurality is a matter for the UK government rather than the European Commission. Speaking in the debate, ENPA president Lord Black of Brentwood, Telegraph Media Group executive director, said  that media plurality [...]

Community media publisher Archant is changing the way it reports audience data for its key newspaper brands in partnership with ABC. Archant titles, including the Eastern Daily Press, East Anglian Daily Times and Welwyn Hatfield Times, will deliver print, digital editions, web and social media data, presented through ABC’s Multi-Platform certification programme at the next [...]

Bettine Pellant has been appointed chief executive of Picon, the UK  industry association for manufacturers and suppliers to the printing, papermaking and paper converting sectors.  She succeeds Tim Webb, who has stepped down after eight years in Picon’s most senior executive role. Bettine is no newcomer to Picon and its membership, having joined in 2007 as events [...]

See the latest print issue of PJ for an insight into Mortons Print, where the focus is on moving forward and 'doing things better'. Want a copy? Contact editor Gary Cullum at [email protected]

Five East Devon based Archant titles have been praised for driving a £250,000 appeal to finish the building of a day hospice which will serve the patches covered by all the newspapers. Group editor Phil Griffin joined support groups, fundraisers and nurses at the Hospiscare charity’s site in Honiton to celebrate reaching the massive target. It is hoped builders will hand over the [...]

Picon has announced the death on New Year’s Day of Peter Morris, a former Chairman of the organisation and a long-time member of the Picon Council. From 1962 until his retirement last September, Peter spent his whole working life in the printing industry, starting as a teenager in the finishing department of a Birmingham printer. He [...]

The press industry has united to condemn the attack against French satirical publicationCharlie Hebdo yesterday (Wednesday) as a barbaric attempt to suppress freedom of speech and democratic values. Lynne Anderson, News Media Association deputy chief executive, said: “The News Media Association condemns these attacks in the strongest possible terms. Free speech is a fundamental right and those who [...]