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UK advertising expenditure forecast 2016-18

By |2016-02-12T09:27:25+00:00February 12th, 2016|News|

Enders Analysis released this research Today: The years 2014 and 2015 have seen outstanding real growth of 13% in display advertising spend. Although we cannot rule out a recessionary downturn, we project further 11% growth during 2016-2018, but at a slowing rate as display spend continues to benefit from relatively benign economic conditions. A sizeable chunk [...]

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Angus McBride appointed General Counsel at News UK

By |2016-02-01T12:52:50+00:00February 1st, 2016|News|

Angus McBride has been appointed as General Counsel, News UK, and will oversee all legal activity and compliance for the business that publishes The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and the Times Literary Supplement. McBride (pictured above) is currently Partner at law firm Kingsley Napley where he has built up a [...]

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DMGT reports revenues of £500 million

By |2016-02-01T12:51:49+00:00February 1st, 2016|News|

DMGT has reported first-quarter revenues of £500 million, growth of 5% on the same period last year, or 1% on an underlying basis. In its Trading Update released today, DMGT reports underlying revenue growth of 2% from its B2B businesses and an underlying revenue decline of 2% from its consumer media business, dmg media. In [...]

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Celebrities and politicians pour praise on The Sun’s military awards, the Millies

By |2016-02-01T12:50:51+00:00February 1st, 2016|News|

London’s Guildhall was the venue on January 22 for the eighth annual Millies which were hosted by ITV News at Ten anchorman Tom Bradby. Guests included singing legend Rod Stewart, Superman actor Henry Cavill and TV’s The Apprentice star Baroness Karren Brady. All the award nominees began their day at a Downing Street reception with PM’s wifeSamantha Cameron before going to the [...]

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Printing Charity chief executive Stephen Gilbert steps down

By |2016-02-01T12:49:37+00:00February 1st, 2016|News|

After 12 years Stephen Gilbert, the Printing Charity’s chief executive and secretary, is taking early retirement. In a statement issued this morning, the charity said: “The Trustees would like to thank him for his drive and vision that have transformed a little-known organisation into a vibrant, national charity.” During his time as chief executive, he developed a [...]

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Fire Kills to launch in Featurelink

By |2016-02-01T12:48:08+00:00February 1st, 2016|News|

The Government's Fire Kills 'Unsung Heroes' campaign encouraging fire safety in the home is launching activity on Featurelink in February. Regional press ads asking people to ensure they have working smoke alarms on every level of their home will run alongside geographically targeted editorial in titles across England from 15 February. The Fire Kills team [...]

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Guardian News & Media appoints social and new formats editor

By |2016-01-26T17:03:27+00:00January 26th, 2016|News|

Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Belam as social and new formats editor. Martin will lead the creation of an integrated social strategy for the Guardian, heading up a team who will look to experiment with how the publication reaches additional audiences using new media, as well as developing the Guardian’s [...]

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Higher prices for newsprint in France from January

By |2016-01-26T15:11:23+00:00January 26th, 2016|News|

Amid strong demand and good capacity utilisation, newsprint manufacturers managed to get a moderate price increase on the French market, reports EUWID Pulp & Paper. Just a very few contracts were outstanding in the third week of January, although they were hardly expected to be much different from the agreements concluded to date. Most newsprint contracts [...]

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Guardian News & Media to cut costs by 20 per cent

By |2016-01-26T14:58:10+00:00January 26th, 2016|News|

The publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers aims to break even within three years and launches a new strategy focusing on future growth Guardian News & Media is to cut running costs by 20% – a little over £50m – in a bid to break even within three years and support future growth. A faster than expected downturn in [...]

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Sir Ray Tindle’s ground-breaking deal passes ownership of London and Dorset titles to local management

By |2016-01-18T10:43:20+00:00January 18th, 2016|News|

Newspaper proprietor Sir Ray Tindle (pictured) has sealed a ground-breaking deal which passes ownership of some of his leading titles to the people who run them.   The South London Press, the Mercury, the London Weekly News titles, including the Westminster, Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicles, Kensington & Chelsea News and the Westminster & Pimlico News series as well as the View From series and Pulman’s Weekly News in Dorset, now [...]

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