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A Second World War bomber pilot who was awarded the DFC, Sir Gordon Linacre became a leading and influential figure in English provincial journalism from the 1980s until his death on Thursday night at the age of 94. He was made chief executive of the extensive United Newspapers group in 1983, and later served as president of [...]
TWELVE months ago, The Irish News, the best performing regional daily morning newspaper among all Irish titles, and PCS, solidified their partnership, as the newspaper took on PCS’s portfolio of publishing solutions. The portfolio includes Knowledge, the editorial solution as well as advertising, production and circulation solutions. The Irish News set out to achieve a fully integrated system, allowing [...]
Hearst Advertising Worldwide (HAW) has confirmed the purchase of an ad DEPOT ad booking and processing system from UK-based software business 5 Fifteen. HAW offers advertisers and clients direct, centralised and simplified access to an expanded and exclusive international portfolio of 335 magazines, 188 websites, radio and TV channels owned by Hearst and its partners. Designed and [...]
Trinity Mirror has become a founding member of a working group which aims to combat online advertisement fraud. Trinity Mirror has joined the new group, which also includes the Financial Times and multinational consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser. Among the aims of the group, named the Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS), will be to publish a list [...]
With exclusive deals and incredible bargains, www.thesunholidays.co.uk will build on the existing strength of The Sun newspaper’s holiday offering News UK has just launched a brand new dedicated holiday website, The Sun Holidays, packed with exclusive offers, great savings and plenty of choice. The huge popularity of The Sun’s annual £9.50 holiday offers – 45 million people have holidayed [...]
The Essex Chronicle Media Group has picked up 13 nominations at the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards 2014. The Essex Chronicle picked up the lion's share with 11 nominations, including Weekly Paid For Newspaper of the Year - an award which went to sister title the Brentwood Gazette last year. The weekly has also been shortlisted in [...]
The rate of growth of UK advertising expenditure halved from the second to the third quarter, according to data from the Advertising Association and Warc, while full-year forecasts have been revised downwards A slowdown in the third quarter was expected after the boost to figures given by the FIFA World Cup earlier in the year. [...]
The Daily Mail has partnered with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to offer journalism training scholarships to two young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Trust was founded by Stephen’s mother Doreen Lawrence, now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, in 1998 and has helped disadvantaged students into careers in architecture – the profession which Stephen wanted to enter. It [...]
In a debate on media plurality in the House of Lords last night (Wednesday), the government restated there was “no doubt” that media plurality is a matter for the UK government rather than the European Commission. Speaking in the debate, ENPA president Lord Black of Brentwood, Telegraph Media Group executive director, said that media plurality [...]
Community media publisher Archant is changing the way it reports audience data for its key newspaper brands in partnership with ABC. Archant titles, including the Eastern Daily Press, East Anglian Daily Times and Welwyn Hatfield Times, will deliver print, digital editions, web and social media data, presented through ABC’s Multi-Platform certification programme at the next [...]
