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Lee Palmer is press hall manager at Westferry Printers, part of the Reach Printing Services network. Westferry prints 950,000 copies a night of two natonal newspaper titles plus the London Metro and CityAM - and a further 20 newspapers under contract. In this article, in October printed PJ,  he gives an insight into what makes [...]

THE EDITOR’S CHAIR: ABCs must not distract from great audience growth, says Gary Cullum WHEN I was a young lad working at the Newspaper Society in the early 1980s I was responsible for the Society’s press and public affairs department – in other words, information. Every department came under a committee of senior NS members, [...]

PJ’s Caryl Holland visits Jersey to find out how the digital printing of newspapers has become an operational success. Read the full story in October PJ. Need a subscription? Please click here to make contact  Pictured below: one of three Kodak Prosper digotal press lines at the KPS Jersey

PJ has been at the heart of the news publishing industry for 60 years and has a heritage dating back to the founding of the Newspaper Society in 1836. It is published 10 times a year on behalf of the News Media Association by Cullum Publishing.   If you don’t receive a personal copy and [...]

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 [...]