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The Board of Trinity Mirror plc has noted the recent media speculation and confirms that it is in discussions with Local World Holdings Limited for the potential acquisition of the shares not already owned by Trinity Mirror plc. There is no certainty that any agreement will be reached. A further announcement will be made if [...]

Local media now reaches 40 million people across print and online a week, according to the latest data from JICREG. The overall audience of the industry has risen strongly in the last year, fuelled by a growth in digital audiences for the industry, particularly on mobile Local Media Works has updated its headline industry statistics to produce [...]

Group brand director at Aviva Jan Gooding is joining the Publishers Audience Measurement Company(PAMCo) as the new chair of the organisation, it has been announced. As chair, Jan will be responsible for overseeing the strategic thinking of the board of directors and will work alongside the organisation’s chief executive, Simon Redican, and the PAMCo team. Jan,  pictured, who is also [...]

News Corp has  announced leadership changes at News UK, with the appointment ofRebekah Brooks as chief executive officer, David Dinsmore as chief operating officer, and Tony Gallagher as editor-in-chief of The Sun, Britain’s largest selling daily newspaper. Ms. Brooks will replace Mike Darcey, who is departing as CEO after three years in the post, during which time he stabilised the company and [...]

EDP and EADT Political Editor Annabelle Dickson has been promoted to the newly-created role of group political editor, Archant, with immediate effect. Annabelle, who leads the lobby group of journalists at the House of Commons, has been political editor of the Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times for the past two years and helped shape [...]

Johnston Press has grown its digital audience by 26% year on year. Audited figures for the first half of 2015, released today by ABC, reveal that 19.6m browsers visit the local publisher’s websites each month, up from 15.5m against the same period last year. The figures also show impressive growth of some of the group’s [...]

A free newspaper axed eight years ago has been revived by a regional publisher. The Grimsby Target is once again set to reach more than 33,000 homes across North East Lincolnshire, having originally been withdrawn from publication in March 2007, reports industry website Hold The Front Page. The 32-page Target will serve as a monthly [...]

The latest figures from the National Readership Survey show News UK’s Scottish titles are performing impressively across the market. For the first time since December 2012, The Scottish Sun is the undisputed number one daily newspaper in Scotland, selling 220,893 copies each day and read by 541,000 adults daily (source: ABC 6 monthly Feb-July ’15). The National [...]

The UK's six leading national newspaper groups are combining forces to launch an advertising campaign across their 18 titles which aims to remind people of the unique role newspapers play for advertisers, readers and society, reports Warc, the former World Advertising Research Council. The eight-week campaign, which launches on September 2, will appear on digital [...]

1985: The Web Offset Newspaper Association: Advanced Technology group (WONA-ATG) members are pictured in the pressroom during a visit to Yellow Advertiser Web Offset in Harlow. See more from the PJ archives of 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005 in the September issue of PJ magazine. To subscribe to PJ, click here.