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NEWS Academy Summer School students have produced their own paper at Newsprinters’ Broxbourne plant in Hertfordshire. They saw their paper roll off the presses at the world’s biggest print site after a fast-paced week of reporting, masterclasses and workshops. The 20 young journalists came from all over the country and were selected for the summer school after [...]

DUNDEE-based DC Thomson has rebranded and relaunched its print division. Its facility at Kingsway East is now known as Discovery Print and is tasked with growing the company’s contract print portfolio. The family-owned and run business goes back 125 years and is famed worldwide for publishingthe much-loved Beano and Dandy titles. The new name reflects the setting of the [...]

The Prime Minister has hosted a regional media reception attended by publishers, editors, political editors, the Newspaper Conference and the NS at Number 10 Downing Street this week. Other ministers who attended included Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, and Culture Secretary Sajid Javid. The Newspaper Conference members, chaired by Annabelle Dickson, political editor of the Eastern Daily [...]

Dublin-based Independent News & Media (IN&M), which publishes 22 titles including the Irish Independent and the Belfast Telegraph,  has signed an exclusive long-term agreement  with Dubsat for itsAdsend service to handle the validation and digital delivery of all print advertising across all of its newspapers. Joe O’Keefe, group pre-press manager at IN&M, said the new platform will enhance the group’s [...]

Traffic to local media websites grew by more than half in just a year, figures published by ABC this week reveal. Local World recorded the largest number of average monthly unique users out of regional press publishers for the reporting period of January to June this year and theKent Messenger Group recorded the fastest growth. And total [...]

The Communities Department has written to seven local authorities requesting that their publications comply with the publicity code which seeks to rein in aggressive council newspapers. The letter, from Under Secretary of State Kris Hopkins, went to the London boroughs of Enfield, Hillingdon, and Lambeth, as well as Luton, Medway and Mid Devon and North Somerset councils. [...]

Carpet and flooring retailer Carpetright has used 1Local, the regional press package for national advertisers, for the first time. Planned by Mediacom, ads have been run in all 71 daily regional titles across the UK. The booking follows a meeting with the NS earlier this year at which NS head of marketing Justin Fenton briefed Carpetright marketing director Helen [...]

Trinity Mirror Midlands has announced it is planning to introduce Newsroom 3.1 – the new editorial structure supporting a digital-first publishing process – by the end of September. It follows the successful introduction of the model in Newcastle, Teesside and Cardiff in recent months. David Brookes, Midlands’ dditor-in-chief, said the changes to the Birmingham and Coventry newsrooms would [...]

Archant, the leading independent regional media business, announced today [21 August 2014] the appointment of Jeff Henry as its new chief executive.  He will join the business on September 1, 2014. “We are delighted that Jeff, with his breadth of experience and expertise across the world of multi-media and content and his outstanding commercial track [...]

Regional publishing groups have helped set in stone a new apprenticeship standard to help non-graduates get into journalism. Archant, Johnston Press, the KM Group and Newsquest are among publishers who have developed the scheme as part of the government’s ‘trailblazer’ apprenticeship programme. The journalism employers have been working with the National Council for the Training of Journalists to develop a higher level [...]