Award Winning Newspaper Printer
More used to writing the news than making it, editor of Archant Norfolk’s Great Yarmouth Mercury, Anne Edwards, was made an Honorary Fellow of University Campus Suffolk at Great Yarmouth Minister on October 10. Anne was given the honour in recognition of her work for the community. Anne left school mid-term in 1970 to take up a junior [...]
Trinity Mirror’s Digital portfolio attracted more than 91m unique users in September. Monthly average browsers to Trinity Mirror’s national sites rose to 76.3m, a year-on-year leap of 145.2%. Daily average browsers to those sites hit 3.8m, an increase of 158.3% year-on-year. Trinity Mirror’s regional network reached 21.9 million monthly unique users, the first time the company [...]
Mail Online hit a new traffic record in May when it reached an average of 11,792,392 daily web browsers per day. This was just up from the previous daily record of 11,768,620, which it hit in January this year. Mail Online recorded an average of 145m page impressions today and 184m monthly unique browsers. According to [...]
A group of writers from a city arts magazine which closed down last year are to team up with an independent website in a new publishing venture. Venue magazine, originally launched in 1982, was axed by publisher Local World last November having gone online-only in 2011. But seven of the former Venue writers have now teamed up [...]
CN Group, the Carlisle based independent local media business has today started a consultation with its staff regarding moving to overnight printing of its two daily titles and outsourcing the distribution of all its titles. Speaking on the proposals Robin Burgess, CN Group’s chief executive said the proposal would “provide more shelf life for our two dailies [...]
Britain’s 300-year-old free press is under attack as never before, Viscount Rothermere, chairman of DMGT, publisher of the Daily Mail, warned last night. He said that a liberal democracy ‘cannot exist’ without the Press, now the target of criticism from ‘politicians and so-called celebrities who are the loudest in flaunting their liberal credentials.’ Lord Rothermere, [...]
Some of the most forward-looking thinkers in the newspaper and news publishing world will be gathering in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, next week for the World Publishing Expo and its related conferences on newsroom practices, on tablet & app strategies and on printing strategies. There is still time to register: full details can be found at http://www.worldpublishingexpo.com.The [...]
In this month’s PJ - our second preview on the World Publishing Expo, taking place 13-15 October in Amsterdam. Caryl Holland reports from Northern Ireland on the award-winning success of specialist contract printer Interpress. How does the newspaper printer keep its quality to the highest levels? Newspaper Awards - a new look, new format and new venue for 2015. [...]
Agfa Graphics has introduced a new high-speed platesetter for the high-volume newspaper market. The Advantage N-TR HS (Trolley Load, High-Speed) runs at speeds up to 350 plates per hour. Thanks to the increased speed, the Advantage N-TR HS can extend newspaper publishers’ editorial and advertising deadlines, giving them the ability to deliver the latest news [...]
The February 2014 edition of the Ax News, the newspaper of the Axholme Academy, Crowle, North Lincolnshire, produced in partnership with the Lincoln School of Journalism and printed by Mortons of Horncastle, scooped the secondary school honour and received special praise from judge, author Anthony Horowitz. First News said “It was a tough decision and [...]
