Award Winning Newspaper Printer
The House of Lords has agreed to appoint a new special inquiry committee to investigate the impact of digital technologies on democracy which will be chaired by Lord Puttnam. Lord Black of Brentwood, chair of the News Media Association’s legal, policy and regulatory affairs committee, is to sit on the committee which will look at [...]
The Editors’ Code of Practice, under which the vast majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists work, is to be revised to further strengthen protection for victims of sexual assault.Clause 11 (Victims of sexual assault) has been expanded to make clear that it applies to newsgathering as well as publication. The revised clause [...]
Two niche newspaper titles printed by Lincolnshire-based Mortons Print Ltd have received awards at the Production Journal 2019 news awards. The Hackney Citizen was named the best Niche Market Newspaper of the Year at the awards, held on Wednesday, May 8 at the Royal Lancaster London, while the design-led title The Essential Journal was [...]
MORTONS Print has been named Regional Newspaper Printer of the Year for the second year in a row and took first place honours in the Niche Market Newspaper of the Year category at the Newsawards 2018. The Lincolnshire company impressed judges with the high quality of its print work on titles including Cage & Aviary Birds, [...]
Flint Group and Sun Chemical are both set to increase prices of various inks and coatings at the beginning of March. Flint Group’s CPS Inks division will implement a global price increase of up to nine per cent on offset and publication gravure inks, coatings and pressroom consumables while Sun Chemical will increase prices on all offset [...]
MANROLAND web systems and Goss International’s printing press business are planning to combine their businesses. “The combined company will benefit from the companies’ complementary geographic footprints, create extensive synergies, ensure long-term viability, and provide value-oriented solutions, especially in the area of aftermarket services,” said manroland in a statement announcing the move. “In the future, the [...]
The owner of the Daily Mirror has agreed to buy the company behind titles including the Daily Express, the Daily Star and magazines such as OK! The deal is subject to shareholder approval. Trinity Mirror is to pay £126.7m for the publishing assets of Northern & Shell, which is owned by Richard Desmond. Sale talks [...]
Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield (pictured) has warned that local newspapers will close if MPs do not overturn the Section 40-style clause in the Data Protection Bill when it comes before the House of Commons. Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Mr Highfield said: “We always want to get the story right: that is how we [...]
The Financial Times (FT) celebrates its 130th anniversary this month having achieved a record high paid-for readership in 2017. More than 910,000 paid-for readers come to the FT across print and digital, up eight percent year on year (assured by Deloitte, Q4 2017). The FT is now a majority digital content business, with digital subscriptions [...]
THE Oldham Chronicle relaunches tomorrow, 14 February, as a digital-only title, six months after the 163-year-old regional daily newspaper went into administration. The new operators, radio station Revolution 96.2 owned by Credible Media, say the new website and social media presence for the title will be known as the Oldham Chronicle Online. Staff at the [...]
