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New figures confirm strong audience growth for news media industry

By |2015-09-01T16:20:03+01:00September 1st, 2015|News|

The news media industry has experienced a strong growth in audiences over the last year, figures published this week confirm. According to the latest National Readership Survey release, the overall digital and print audience of UK newsbrands has risen to 46.7 million adults each month. Nine in 10 adults in Great Britain consume a newsbrand either in [...]

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In praise of the enduring power of print

By |2015-09-01T16:18:37+01:00September 1st, 2015|News|

WAN-Ifra’s Manfred Werfel gives an insight into print production trends at Expo 2015, being held in Hamburg, Germany in October and says why print remains a popular alternative to digital media as part of September PJ's five-page preview of next month's big industry event in Hamburg. To subscribe to PJ magazine, click here.

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Entertainments site WOW247 surpasses one million unique users

By |2015-08-26T11:55:24+01:00August 26th, 2015|News|

Johnston Press today announces its online entertainments platform, WOW247.co.uk, has exceeded one million unique users for the first time, reaching 1,035,753 in July 2015, six months ahead of target. This impressive milestone comes less than three months after the brand’s new, fully-responsive website – which features interviews, blogs, reviews, galleries and competitions provided by a network [...]

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Tindle’s Fulham Chronicle wins council public notices contract

By |2015-08-25T16:37:24+01:00August 25th, 2015|News|

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has announced it has awarded a three-year contract for publication of its public notices to the Fulham Chronicle, one of the Tindle Newspapers’ London series. Philip Evans and Karen Sheppard, joint MDs of these London titles, said they were delighted with this decision. It followed a series of meetings with Council officials. “This is good [...]

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The Sunday Times steps up Scottish sport and business coverage with new appointments

By |2015-08-25T16:36:16+01:00August 25th, 2015|News|

The Sunday Times Scotland announces today that it has made two new additions to its editorial team. Ahead of the Rugby World Cup, it has appointed Mark Palmer as a dedicated Scottish Rugby Correspondent to cover all the action at home and abroad. The newspaper, which has the largest sale of all the quality titles in Scotland, [...]

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DC Thomson announces publishing changes

By |2015-08-24T12:35:30+01:00August 24th, 2015|News|

DC Thomson has announced that a series of appointments will take place in the company’s Publishing business. Donald Martin will become head of publishing for Consumer Entertainment (CE), moving in October from his current post as Editor-in-Chief of DC Thomson Newspapers, Editor of the Sunday Post and The Weekly News. In the role of Head of [...]

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Archant reports increase in revenues and profits

By |2015-08-24T12:34:27+01:00August 24th, 2015|News|

ARCHANT has reported its first revenue and profit growth in eight years, according to its latest figures. The Norfolk-based publisher of regional newspapers, including the Eastern Daily Press, said there has been modest revenue growth in the first half of the year – thought to be the first in about eight years. The group said it [...]

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Mirror in top 10 of Facebook’s global publishing table

By |2015-08-24T12:31:33+01:00August 24th, 2015|News|

MIRROR.CO.UK was the ninth biggest Facebook publisher in the world for July, according to the latest figures from social media tracking website, Newswhip.com. The site has now been in the top 10 for eight consecutive months, cementing its position as one of the most engaged UK newsbrands on Facebook, says NewsWhip. The Mirror site has clocked [...]

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Sunday Times Travel Magazine dominates in print retail travel sector

By |2015-08-24T12:29:17+01:00August 24th, 2015|News|

The January – June 2015 Consumer Magazine ABC revealed that the Sunday Times Travel Magazine’s (STTM) circulation of 19,317 was more than double that of its two closest rivals, CN Traveller and Lonely Planet, in the print retail travel sector. STTM posted a robust total Print ABC figure of 56,624, which was up 1.1% on the previous [...]

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Rupert Howell: traditional media will ’defy doom mongers’

By |2015-08-13T16:20:53+01:00August 13th, 2015|News|

Trinity Mirror’s Rupert Howell has said that“innovation, market consolidation and quality content” are key to the future of news brands. In an article for Media Week, Trinity Mirror group development director Mr Howell wrote that traditional media would “defy the doom-mongers” by embracing three trends - technical innovation, market consolidation, and investment in content Mr Howell writes: “History teaches us [...]

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