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Dundee newspaper, the Evening Telegraph, is extending its offering and launching a Saturday edition, the Weekend Telegraph. The Weekend Telegraph will feature the same mix of exclusive local news, unmissable sport, features, offers and competitions that have made the Tele Dundee’s best-selling newspaper. It will be priced at 55p and will include a 24-page entertainment magazine with [...]

Trinity Mirror reported a Group record audience of 137.6m unique browsers in July, according to the latest ABCe figures release. The 137.6m figure represents a 19% month-on-month increase and a year-on-year surge of 27%. Today’s figures are the first ABCe report to include former Local World website traffic in Trinity Mirror’s figures. Excluding former Local World traffic the Group [...]

Brian Doel, owner of the regional West Country Sunday Independent has died sudenly, aged 70. Mr Doel, who retired as group managing director of Tindle Newspapers in May 2014 to return to his publication in the far South West of England died while he and his wife were in Cornwall on Saturday night. Only hours [...]

An influential committee of both Houses of Parliament has endorsed the News Media Association’s call for the new Counter-Terrorism Bill to be subject to enhanced scrutiny to protect free speech. In a report published today, the Joint Human Rights Select Committee said that the Government has so far failed to provide a “coherent or sufficiently precise definition” of key concepts in [...]

City media analyst Lorna Tilbian has said that advertisers must learn to fall in love with newspapers once again, pointing to the boost to revenue return on investment achieved by including print on media schedules. In an article for the News Media Association published today, Lorna Tilbian, executive PLC director and head of media, Numis, cited the circulation increases enjoyed by newspapers [...]

THE BBC has reported the breaking news that Karen Bradley has taken over from the deposed John Whittingdale as Culture, Media and Sport Secretary in Prime Minister Theresa May's new Cabinet. She was formerly a Home Office Minister.

WIRRAL Council is facing a backlash over plans to launch a monthly council newspaper that could be in breach of government guidelines on local authority publicity, reports the News Media Association (NMA). The NMA has been at the centre of the campaign to abolish council newspapers that compete against independent commercial titles for readers and advertisers. The campaign [...]

JOHNSTON Press has signed a seven-year contract deal with Agfa Graphics that covers a complete upgrade of the pre-press facilities at the Johnston Press printing sites at Dinnington, Portsmouth and Carn in Northern Ireland. The full story is in the latest issue of PJ magazine. To subscribe to PJ, click here

THE Printing Charity's newly-appointed chief executive and secretary Neil Lovell speaks to PJ publisher and editor Gary Cullum about his role and his vision for the charity's future. The two-page feature is in the latest issue of PJ magazine. To subscribe to PJ, click here

The Oldham Chronicle has reinvented its business in order to remain sustainable. In developing its new publishing model, it has enhanced a 30-year partnership with publishing industry software developer PCS. Read the full case study in the July August issue of PJ magazine. To subscribe to PJ click here