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Archant Specialist’s The English Garden magazine has launched a Future Fund to encourage exciting new ideas to set the gardening world alight, with the help of a generous reader and celebrity chef Raymond Blanc.   The concept for the new bursary scheme came about following a very generous random act of kindness.   The English Garden magazine was [...]

Facebook has announced its latest tweaks to the algorithm determining what people see in their news feeds, with topical news and timely posts the focus. Facebook engineers Erich Owens and David Vickrey announced the changes in a blog post. “We’ve heard feedback that there are some instances where a post from a friend or a [...]

THE Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) launched this week with a re-launched website and a promise to be "rigorous, independent, fair and transparent", reports the Newspaper Society. The new press regulator will oversee editorial standards for the majority of national, regional, local and magazine publications. More on the Newspaper Society website

Just published: the 2014 Guide UK and Irish Newspaper Contract Printers - only available with a subscription to Production Journal, the  industry’s monthly review of newspaper and news media technology.  Not received your own copy of printed PJ? then drop an email to PJ editor Gary Cullum and get on the database:  [email protected]

A SKY Premier League football fixtures eight-panel MemoStick booklet was applied to the front page of The Sun on at the start of the football league season on Saturday 9 August 2014. This was the most ambitious application of this technology ever attempted, the largest ever newspaper MemoStick publication anywhere in the world on a newspaper and the first [...]

NEWS Academy Summer School students have produced their own paper at Newsprinters’ Broxbourne plant in Hertfordshire. They saw their paper roll off the presses at the world’s biggest print site after a fast-paced week of reporting, masterclasses and workshops. The 20 young journalists came from all over the country and were selected for the summer school after [...]

DUNDEE-based DC Thomson has rebranded and relaunched its print division. Its facility at Kingsway East is now known as Discovery Print and is tasked with growing the company’s contract print portfolio. The family-owned and run business goes back 125 years and is famed worldwide for publishingthe much-loved Beano and Dandy titles. The new name reflects the setting of the [...]

The Prime Minister has hosted a regional media reception attended by publishers, editors, political editors, the Newspaper Conference and the NS at Number 10 Downing Street this week. Other ministers who attended included Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, and Culture Secretary Sajid Javid. The Newspaper Conference members, chaired by Annabelle Dickson, political editor of the Eastern Daily [...]

Dublin-based Independent News & Media (IN&M), which publishes 22 titles including the Irish Independent and the Belfast Telegraph,  has signed an exclusive long-term agreement  with Dubsat for itsAdsend service to handle the validation and digital delivery of all print advertising across all of its newspapers. Joe O’Keefe, group pre-press manager at IN&M, said the new platform will enhance the group’s [...]

Traffic to local media websites grew by more than half in just a year, figures published by ABC this week reveal. Local World recorded the largest number of average monthly unique users out of regional press publishers for the reporting period of January to June this year and theKent Messenger Group recorded the fastest growth. And total [...]