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There’s a new game in town and The Athletic is here in the UK looking to capture attention of sports fans with its ad-free subscription model. ALAN GEERE signs up... This artricle appears in the September issue of printed PJ.. Sign up here if you’d like a subscription.
The Printing Charity - formerly the Printers’ Charitable Corporation - continues to help more people each year. Under chief executive Neil Lovell, a small but dedicated management team, guided by an equally dedicated and enthusiastic board of trustees, helped 1,737 people across its welfare support, education awards and partnerships in 2018 - an increase of [...]
Former national news executive Will Gore heads up the NCTJ Community News Project and gives an insight in PJ into how the collaborative scheme is more than delivering on its brief to recruit 80 journalists for previously under-reported areas using £4.5m of funding from Facebook. You’ll find the full article in printed PJ. Need a [...]
Geraldine Allinson (pictured above) steps down as chairman of the Kent Messenger Group tomorrow (October 4) and will be succeeded as managing director by James Gurney, the current managing director of the Newbury Weekly News. Gurney (pictured) will head up an enlarged business unit comprising the Kent Messenger Group and the Newbury Weekly News. Edward Iliffe, [...]
The Premier League has appointed the Guardian’s David Pemsel as its new chief executive. Confirmation of the appointment came at a Premier League meeting this morning. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, who was tasked with recruiting an individual to administer the top tier of English football, said Pemsel had been hired because of his [...]
THE Guernsey Press Company Limited has been bought by a local investment company in a multi-million-pound deal. The Channel Islands Media Group Limited, a joint venture between Bailiwick Investments Limited and MXC Capital Limited, has purchased the Guernsey Press Company and its wholly owned subsidiary Guernsey Distribution Limited from the Guiton Media Group Limited, a [...]
Archant chief executive Jeff Henry will leave the company this Friday. The company has confirmed the CEO’s departure, with chairman Simon Bax taking up the newly created role of executive chairman at the same time. Jeff’s departure follows last week’s announcement that Brian McCarthy, Archant’s chief operating officers, will also be leaving the company after [...]
Following a review of the printing and delivery of its newspapers, Archant has announced a new agreement with Newsprinters and Menzies Distribution and Smiths News for the printing and delivery of some of its print portfolio. Archant currently uses a mixture of outsourcing and internal printing for its portfolio of magazines and newspapers. However continuing [...]
John Lawson Barrons, a past president of the Newspaper Society and a former managing director of Westminster Press, died on September 21 after a short battle with illness. The funeral will be held on at 1130 on Wed 9 Oct at Roselawn Crematorium Belfast. Donations can be made dto Cancer Research.
The Government is using Featurelink, Local Media Works’ native content and advertising service, for its Get ready for Brexit campaign. Ads and locally tailored native content are running in all daily UK regional press titles until the end of October. The ads urge businesses to update their contracts to ensure they can legally receive personal [...]
