Award Winning Newspaper Printer
Archant has honoured scores of staff from across the company at its annual Archant Awards lunch at the Landmark Hotel in London. Over 200 members of staff heard chief executive Adrian Jeakings open the award lunch with an upbeat message. He said: “Colleagues from all over the company are telling me how they are winning [...]
Jon Wright has been re-elected chairman of The Printing Charity for a second term at the charity's Annual General Meeting held on 24 June at Beaverbrook House, Bletchley, its sheltered home for retired printers. He joined the charity as a trustee and honorary treasurer in 2004, becoming chairman of the Investment Committee in 2007. A [...]
Trinity Mirror today announced that John Brewis has been promoted to managing director Trinity Mirror Printing and operations director, publishing. Mr Brewis now has responsibility for all pre-press operations across publishing in addition to his current remit for group printing, production and newspaper distribution. Gordon Davidson, pre-press director for Trinity Mirror and Allan Rogerson, operations [...]
Mustard TV bosses have released the first set of viewing figures showing a healthy appetite for the new service amongst Freeview viewers in the greater Norwich area. Mustard TV began broadcasting in March, the second local TV station to go live, on Freeview channel 8, although it is not currently available on Sky or Virgin. [...]
Regional and local news publisher Johnston Press has announced the successful completion of its Capital Refinancing Plan (first announced on 9 May 2014). Gross proceeds of £140.0 million have now been received by the group in connection with the placing and the rights issue, and further to the announcement made by the Company on 14 [...]
Tindle-owned Crediton Country Courier celebrated its first anniversary as a weekly title with a staff luncheon hosted by Tindle Newspapers owner and chairman Sir Ray Tindle and vice chairman Wendy Craig. May 2013 saw the successful transition of the Crediton Courier from a fortnightly newspapers to a weekly, a feat that has rarely been achieved, [...]
Research from Enders Analysis shows national newspaper advertising fell 8% last year (and by 28% since 2007). But Enders believes a stronger economic outlook will slow the decline in 2014 to about 6%, even if volatility month-to-month makes budgeting and management a relentless challenge. The local and regional press should also experience some—but smaller—reprieve, though [...]
Seventy-two per cent of UK internet users access UK national newspaper brands across platforms weekly, the third annual Reuters Institute of Journalism Digital News Report 2014 has found. Co-sponsored by Newsworks which analysed the UK data, the report found that digital and print newspapers are the top two commercial news sources in the UK for [...]
Lord Black of Brentwood, Telegraph Media Group executive director, has told WAN-IFRA’S annual congress in Turin how attacks on press freedom in the UK have had a debilitating effect on free speech across the world. In his speech this week, Lord Black, Commonwealth Press Union chairman, said the British press had endured a "severe, sustained [...]
The Newark by-election provided a flow of good stories for the Newark Advertiser and the paper’s offices were visited by Prime Minister David Cameron Foreign Secretary William Hague and opposition leader Ed Miliband. After being welcomed by the paper’s chairman and editor-in-chief Roger Parlby, his daughter, managing director Joanna Parlby and editor Chris Prime, the [...]
