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Archant has announced a new three-year partnership called Project Neon aimed at creating a sustainable model for local news by creating new digital platforms for up to three UK communities. With funding and support from the Google News Initiative, the Archant-owned project will see the publisher build new platforms for communities “identified as being currently [...]
In the September issue of PJ, CARYL HOLLAND reports on the pioneering work on show at Discovery Print’s Innovation Room following a trip to Dundee meet head of operations (newspapers) Guy Forester and head of newspapers Richard Neville (pictured). if you are not on the recipient list for PJ, then please make contact for a [...]
The News Media Association has teamed up with 40 leading environmental, open government and other organisations to sign a letter, co-ordinated by the Campaign for Freedom of Information, urging the Government to drop a secrecy provision from draft legislation to improve environmental protection after Brexit. The organisations say the prohibition on disclosure “is wholly at [...]
London authorities Hackney and Wandsworth, which previously published fortnightly freesheets, have lost their appeals against a High Court decision to dismiss their challenge to the Government’s crackdown on council papers. Both councils are placing public notices in independent local newspapers as a result of the cessation of their fortnightly publications. The councils had sought to [...]
Fleet Street veteran David Montgomery is on the brink of a comeback with plans to target struggling newspaper publishers in a takeover spree and strip out costs as he attempts to build a new digital giant, reports the Daily Telegraph. Montgomery, 70, is said to be within days of revealing a new listed vehicle set [...]
News UK has announced a new digital milestone with The Times and The Sunday Times surpassing 300,000 digital-only paid subscribers, of an overall total of 539,000 subscribers and some five million registered access users. Digital-only subscriber numbers are up 19 per cent year-on-year at the end of June 2019, to 304,000, in the most successful [...]
Two of America’s largest newspaper chains announced yesterday that they will merge, uniting hundreds of local newsrooms under a single company. New Media Investment Group, the parent company of GateHouse Media, said that it had arrived at an agreement to acquire Gannett (GCI) for a combination of stock and cash. Both companies have vast newsbrand [...]
Screen Europe has announced that Brian Filler (pictured above), President of Screen GP Europe when he retired in 2016, passed away on the 24th July 2019. He was 69. During his 35 years at Screen, Filler rose through the ranks becoming managing director of Screen UK in 1999 and president of the European operation in 2013. [...]
His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester said he was ‘delighted to play a tiny part’ in the history of the West Sussex County Times when he visited Horsham for a special event commemorating its 150th anniversary. He toured an exhibition about the title’s history at the town’s museum in the Causeway, opposite the original [...]
Simon Fox (pictured) is stepping down from his position as chief executive of Reach Plc on 16 August and is to be succeeded by Jim Mullen.Mullen was most recently chief executive of Ladbroke Coral plc. His previous roles include director of product management and director of Digital Strategy at News International (now News UK) , and [...]
