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The Sunday Times tablet edition attracted a record 102,800 readers on Sunday (4 October) with the average reader spending 60 minutes and 49 seconds with us on their tablets. Sian Griffiths’ Young Minds campaign story about the mental health crisis in top schools was the most shared article, while recipes from the second issue of our new food supplement The [...]

Gary Cullum believes that we deserve best practise and best value from our licence fee-funded BBC SO the BBC wants to compete with regional and local newspapers’ online services across the UK. Lord Hall, the former Tony Hall, BBC head honcho director-general, wants to appoint 100 journalists to seek out and report local news. As laudable as it [...]

Speaking at a lunch event attended by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and The Countess of Wessex  today (Thursday), Sir Ray pointed to Sir Martin Sorrell’s recent comments about the high levels of engagement with printed newspapers as evidence that local newspapers “have a long future ahead.” At the lunch to mark the 150th Anniversary of South London Press, chairman of Tindle [...]

The British recovered paper market was quiet and stable in the third week of September. Arisings as a rule remained fairly low overall, although some signs suggest collection volumes could now start to rebound, reports EUWID Recycling and Waste Management. Mixed paper was sought-after domestically and abroad up until mid-September, a trend in marked contrast to [...]

News Corp announced today that it has agreed to acquire Unruly Holdings Limited,  a leading global ad platform that is revolutionising digital and social video advertising for clients around the world. “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility that fits perfectly with our own approach to developing businesses in the digital [...]

Media analysts have focused on the prospect of further mergers and acquisitions in the still highly fragmented regional and local newspaper market, as Trinity Mirror confirmed this week it was in talks to buy the shares inLocal World which it did not already own. Trinity Mirror and Local World each publish around 100 newspapers in print and digital. Local [...]

Guardian News & Media (GNM) has today announced a major reorganisation of its commercial operations, with the creation of three new business units: one focusing on its relationships with readers; one on agencies and clients; and a third on GNM’s print business. The existing marketing, membership and subscriptions teams will be brought together into one [...]

Newsquest Media Group, one of the UK’s leading regional media groups, has launched the Droitwich News in Worcestershire. It will be an edition of the Worcester News covering the famous spa town of Droitwich and will consist of eight change pages each day. New staff have been recruited, and there will be special emphasis on user generated copy and [...]

Trinity Mirror has announced the launch of the Conncted Newsroom,  next stage of the digital-first regional media strategy. The Connected Newsroom builds on the successful Newsroom 3.1 strategy which was first introduced in the North East in April 2014 and subsequently rolled out to all of Trinity Mirror’s regional daily businesses. This is a key part of the [...]

Lord Black of Brentwood,  chairman of the News Media Association’s legal, policy and regulatory affairs committee, has called for “tighter controls” on the BBC’s online news services to prevent it from crowding out commercial rivals through an unsustainable competitive advantage. Speaking in a House of Lords debate on the BBC yesterday (Thursday) Lord Black, executive director of Telegraph Media [...]