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World’s largest print show Drupa postponed due to Coronavirus

By |2020-03-17T16:49:50+00:00March 17th, 2020|News|

Messe Dusseldorf has postponed Drupa until next year due to the coronavirus crisis. Drupa: 2020 expo is off as coronavirus crisis hits worldwide events Drupa: 2020 expo is off as coronavirus crisis hits worldwide events In what seemed like an increasingly inevitable move due to the ongoing worldwide situation around the pandemic, the Messe today [...]

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World Printers Forum webinar: newspaper production in the time of COVID-19

By |2020-03-17T14:38:00+00:00March 17th, 2020|News|

WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum will host a webinar for its members on Wednesday, 18 March, at 14:00 CET about newspaper production in the time of COVID-19.Alice Wong, chief production editor at the South China Morning Post, and Silvio Da Giau, technical director at Athesis, a publishing house in Verona, Italy, will discuss the unprecedented events that [...]

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Media organisations react to Coronavirus pandemic

By |2020-03-16T16:27:23+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|

Media organisations across Europe have reacted to the coronavirus pandemic through initiatives including calling for tax credits to support the industry and highlighting the role played by news media in communicating important health information with the public. The Italian association for news media publishers, Federazione Italiana Editori Giornali, has called for tax credits for newspapers’ [...]

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Newsquest’s Toby Granville calls for support for local news media

By |2020-03-16T16:00:43+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|

Support must urgently be given to the local news media industry in order to boost court reporting and local public interest journalism, Newsquest editorial development director Toby Granville has said. Speaking at an Old Bailey event to launch updated guidance for courts staff on dealing with the media, Granville (pictured) said that it was essential [...]

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces Zero rate VAT for e-publications

By |2020-03-16T15:33:22+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that e-books, e-newspapers, e-magazines and academic e-journals will be VAT zero rated from 1 December this year. Delivering the budget, in which he announced a huge cash injection to combat the economic effects of the coronavirus, Sunak said:         “Our greatest export to the world is our [...]

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May’s newsawards 2020 is postponed until later in the year

By |2020-03-16T14:56:32+00:00March 16th, 2020|News|

The newsawards team has confirmed that it would be prudent and responsible to postpone this year’s Awards dinner until later in the year when, hopefully, life will have returned to some kind of normality.Director Gary Cullum said: “We are currently talking to the Royal Lancaster London hotel about possible future dates and will announce a [...]

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Climate change: How are you tackling this hot topic?

By |2020-03-12T22:44:51+00:00March 12th, 2020|News|

Australia’s recent widespread wildfires alerted the world to the threat posed by cliamte change. How is your company responding to the environmental emergency? CARYL HOLLAND looks at some of the developments in the March printed edition of PJ.  If you need a subscription please make contact here for details

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Elsa manages to tick all the boxes

By |2020-03-12T22:35:37+00:00March 12th, 2020|News|

ELSA GREGORI is supplier manager at Newsprinters, the printing subsidiary of News UK. Her responsibilities cover all three maniufacturing sites at Broxbourne, Knowsley and Eurocentral and she buys utilities for all News UK sites and oversees the environment policies for the group. Want to read more - sign up for a copy of PJ today. [...]

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What the papers say…

By |2020-03-12T21:59:28+00:00March 12th, 2020|News|

Do you have an opinion on the UK’s opinionated Press? Before you rush to judgement, ALAN GEERE explores what is happening in the wide - and increasingly diverse - worold of the news media. Need a subscription to PJ - make contact here rld of the news media

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Stationers’ Foundation combines with Printing Charity for bursaries

By |2020-03-12T20:17:16+00:00March 12th, 2020|News|

THREE postgraduate students are being helped to fund their Masters’ degrees with bursaries of up to £6,000 each awarded by the Stationers’ Foundation and funded by The Printing Charity. Michael Bromley is studying for a BPIF MSc in management at the University of South Wales, Peter Friend is undertaking an MA in digital media at [...]

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