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Johnston Press interim management statement: audience growth and a move closer to return to top line growth

By |2014-10-29T11:18:51+00:00October 29th, 2014|News|

Johnston Press plc has today published its Interim Management Statement which has been drawn up for the 16 weeks to 18 October 2014, this being the last practicable date, as required by the UK Listing Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Johnston Press is a leading UK based local media group, connecting SMEs with local consumers through [...]

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Quartet of new community editors across Archant Norfolk

By |2014-10-29T11:18:16+00:00October 29th, 2014|News|

Archant Norfolk has announced the appointments of four community editors to lead its content gathering operations in Dereham, Fakenham, Thetford and Diss. Adam Lazzari is the new community editor in Dereham - leading the team producing content for the Dereham Times and supporting sister titles across content platforms. Adam, 34, has worked for Archant for 8 years, working in Fakenham [...]

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Johnston Press share consolidation

By |2014-10-29T11:15:18+00:00October 29th, 2014|News|

Johnston press has this afternoon announced proposals to undertake a Share Capital Reorganisation.  The Share Capital Reorganisation will consist of: a sub-division and consolidation of the Company's Ordinary Shares, amendments to the Company's Articles of Association, amendments to the rules of the Company's employee share schemes. A copy of the circular explaining the proposals can [...]

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Newspaper Conference annual lunch booking deadline extended

By |2014-10-23T13:23:13+01:00October 23rd, 2014|News|

The booking deadline for the Newspaper Conference annual lunch with George Osborne has been extended to Friday 31 October. The Chancellor will address an audience of regional press political and London editors, publishers, editors and other senior media industry figures at the event on 19 November. The annual lunch is the flagship event of the Newspaper Conference programme [...]

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Trio of weekly newspaper groups select Miles 33 to deliver multi-platform publishing systems

By |2014-10-23T07:47:32+01:00October 23rd, 2014|News|

The Newbury Weekly News, The Henley Standard and Baylis Media Ltd publishers of the Maidenhead Advertiser and Slough and Windsor Express have selected Miles 33 to deliver full multi-channel internet, mobile and print publishing systems. These three separate, independent, local newspaper publishers are located in South East England, all within a 20 miles area west [...]

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Great Yarmouth editor honoured by university for community role

By |2014-10-20T15:58:46+01:00October 20th, 2014|News|

More used to writing the news than making it, editor of Archant Norfolk’s Great Yarmouth Mercury, Anne Edwards, was made an Honorary Fellow of University Campus Suffolk at Great Yarmouth Minister on October 10. Anne was given the honour in recognition of her work for the community. Anne left school mid-term in 1970 to take up a junior [...]

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Trinity Mirror Group’s digital network figure hits 91 million

By |2014-10-20T15:57:44+01:00October 20th, 2014|News|

Trinity Mirror’s Digital portfolio attracted more than 91m unique users in September. Monthly average browsers to Trinity Mirror’s national sites rose to 76.3m, a year-on-year leap of 145.2%. Daily average browsers to those sites hit 3.8m, an increase of 158.3% year-on-year. Trinity Mirror’s regional network reached 21.9 million monthly unique users, the first time the company [...]

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Mail Online hits new traffic record

By |2014-10-17T13:18:08+01:00October 17th, 2014|News|

Mail Online hit a new traffic record in May when it reached an average of 11,792,392 daily web browsers per day. This was just up from the previous daily record of 11,768,620, which it hit in January this year. Mail Online recorded an average of 145m page impressions today and 184m monthly unique browsers. According to [...]

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Staff of axed magazine join revamped city website

By |2014-10-16T11:01:24+01:00October 16th, 2014|News|

A group of writers from a city arts magazine which closed down last year are to team up with an independent website in a new publishing venture. Venue magazine, originally launched in 1982, was axed by publisher Local World last November having gone online-only in 2011. But seven of the former Venue writers have now teamed up [...]

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CN Group considers move to overnight printing and outsourcing of distribution

By |2014-10-13T08:22:47+01:00October 13th, 2014|News|

CN Group, the Carlisle based independent local media business has today started a consultation with its staff regarding moving to overnight printing of its two daily titles and outsourcing the distribution of all its titles. Speaking on the proposals Robin Burgess, CN Group’s chief executive said the proposal would “provide more shelf life for our two dailies [...]

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