Award Winning Newspaper Printer
Gary Cullum reflects on 20 years of top industry awards and the re-emergence of print I CAN’T believe I am writing this monthly column while planning the 20th annual Newspaper Awards – now known as newsawards, of course. Where has the time gone? Awards partner Mark Hargreaves and I started planning in 1996 and the first event ran [...]
The Duke, the current president of the charity, was the guest speaker at the event, held at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London. He noted that print's ubiquity sometimes rendered it invisible and thanked the 165 guests at the lunch for raising the profile of print as a whole before raising a toast to [...]
The News Media Association has said the draft Investigatory Powers Bill provides insufficient safeguards for journalism. Commenting on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill which was presented to Parliament on Wednesday (4 November), the News Media Association said: “The Draft Bill provides insufficient safeguards for journalism. The Draft Bill would enshrine sweeping powers affecting all citizens, including journalists and their sources, leaving unchanged [...]
A senior DCMS civil servant has said that the BBC must tread “as lightly as it can” to minimise the impact it has on the commercial sector through its activities. At a Westminster Media Forum seminar entitled ‘The future of the BBC and priorities for Charter renewal’ today, DCMS director of media, international, gambling and creative economy Hugh [...]
The News Media Association has emphasised that copyright is a “positive force” in the digital economy. Responding to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Inquiry into the digital economy, the NMA's submission said: “It is all too often overlooked in the debate on the digital economy that copyright is a positive force, facilitating extensive [...]
Trinity Mirror is to take full ownership of Local World in a deal which will make it the biggest local newspaper company in the UK. The deal, which values Local World at £220m, will see the newly-merged operation control local newspaper publishing in most of the biggest UK centres of population. But the deal will [...]
PROPOSALS in a consultation on the Freedom of Information Act would seriously harm government transparency and the public right to know, the News Media Association (NMA) has said. Responding to the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information's consultation document, the NMA said proposals - which include charging for FOI requests and restricting what can be released under the Act – were [...]
MORE than half of consumers browsing highly trusted local media websites act upon the advertising on the sites, new research has found. Research by comScore for 1XL, the local media industry’s online advertising portal, found that 51% of local media site users undertook an action as a result of seeing an ad in the past month. 46% undertook [...]
JUDGES from across the industry have drawn up a shortlist for the 2015 NCTJ Awards for Excellencefrom an entry of more than 220 award hopefuls. The number of award entries have continued to grow year-on-year, with 2015 having the highest number of entries since the awards were launched in 2008. The awards are open to students [...]
THE News Media Association (NMA) has launched a drive to defend the Freedom of Infomation Act, which it says faces a grave threat following the launch of a consultation by the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information. The NMA is encouraging members to respond to the consultation and has created a new FOI section on its website with [...]
