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Nearly 100 workers, who worked at Aylesford Newsprint in Kent, have been awarded about £750,000 for being dismissed without consultation, Unite, the country’s largest union, has announced. However, because the Larkfield-based company went into administration early last year, Unite’s members, who are classed as unsecured creditors,   will only receive £321,000 of that figure.  However, this may be boosted by [...]

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK)  has announced strategic decisions related to its Enterprise Inkjet and silver metal mesh touch sensor businesses, following in-depth management reviews of these business operations and discussions with customers, partners and other industry participants. The statement reads: KODAK PROSPER Enterprise Inkjet Business Kodak is in talks with prospective buyers about offers [...]

Trinity Mirror’s network of regional websites averaged 1.9m daily unique browsers in the last six months of 2015, a 40.1% year-on-year surge. The Manchester Evening News, the UK’s most popular regional news website, increased its daily browser numbers by 34.5% to 558,095, according to today's ABCe release. The Liverpool Echo, increased 59.6% to 422,360, Wales Online, rose [...]

Trinity Mirror’s Perspecs news app has been awarded a six-figure sum of funding from the Google Digital News Initiative (DNI), one of only two large projects in the UK to have won investment. The DNI is a collaboration between Google and news publishers in Europe to support high quality journalism and encourage a more sustainable news ecosystem through technology and innovation. [...]

After all the rumours, Trinity Mirror has announced that the first standalone national daily newspaper for 30 years is being launched in the UK. The new title, called The New Day, will be available from Monday 29 February across the UK. The New Day will be a paid-for daily paper published Monday to Friday, available through all key [...]

The Times and The Sunday Times have launched The Times of London Weekly, an international digital app that provides news-hungry readers with a world view from London. The new app will pull together the most distinctive journalism from both titles in a single digital edition, published once a week on Thursdays. The Times of London Weekly [...]

Here JP’s summary of the proposal: JP proposes to acquire i for £24m* at a 4.6x multiple of its 2015 full year profit of £5.2m Key benefits: ● Greater reach: The combination creates UK’s 4th largest print publisher with over 600,000 paid copies a day ● Increased scale: Greater reach improves ability to gain greater [...]

Trinity Mirror has launched a mobile news aggregation app, giving users access to different sides of the same story. ‘Perspecs’ presents three sides to a news story, allowing users to switch between different news sources presenting differing views - for example the neutral, left and right wing political perspective of the same story, or a home, [...]

Johnston Press has this morning confirmed media speculation that it is in negotiations to buy the i newspaper from Indpendent Print Limited. In a statement  JP said: “The Board of Johnston Press plc notes the recent media speculation and confirms that it is in late stage discussions with Independent Print Limited ("IPL") for the potential acquisition of the business [...]

Sponsors of the Print Futures Awards are calling for entries to the 2016 awards. The Awards are sponsored by The Printing Charity, the British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF), SAXOPRINT, St Bride Foundation, John Crosfield Foundation, Unite the Union GPM & IT Sector, and The Book Trade Charity. These annual Awards, which were launched in 2003, are cash grants of up to £1,500 [...]