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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 [...]

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 [...]