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Gazette breaks new ground with online election hustings
Archant’s North Devon Gazette has broken new ground with the first of two online hustings events. All six of North Devon’s General Election candidates went to the Gazette’s Barnstaple office to take part in the live debate. Reporters Sarah Howells and Elliot [...]
Local papers will be key in General Election
Annabelle Dickson, Newspaper Conference chairman and political editor of Archant's Anglia titles, has argued in a debate that local newspapers will be pivotal to the outcome of the general election in May. Annabelle told the audience at the [...]
Trinity Mirror publishes regional election manifestoes
Trinity Mirror’s regional titles launched their General Election coverage today by publishing manifestos based on the views of more than 18,000 readers. The first in a series of regional election initiatives, the 'My Manifesto' project aims to [...]
DMGT pre-close trading update
DMGT has reported underlying revenue in line with last year for the five months to the end of February 2015. Its B2B businesses reported strong underlying revenue growth of 4% during the period. In February, Hobsons, [...]
Mustard TV celebrates first year with charity support
Archant’s Mustard TV is one year old and to celebrate it has announced the launch of the Mustard TV Celebration Fund on its birthday, March 24. The Fund will support three of the region’s outstanding charities, and provide [...]
The Printing Charity appoints Dr Mark Johnson as helps and futures manager
Dr Mark Johnson has joined The Printing Charity as Helps and Futures manager to help the charity increase the number of people it supports year-on-year. As well as managing the charity’s day-to-day Helps programme of financial [...]
Double joy for Johnston Press with rise in pre-tax profits and lucrative new print deal
Media group Johnston Press has secured a multi-million-pound deal to print the Daily Express and the Daily Star. The announcement of the five year deal came today (see story on home page news feed)as the company [...]
Koenig & Bauer: 2014 sales on target and profit exceeds expectation
• Restructuring on schedule with positive effects • Group sales of €1.1bn on a par with prior year • Positive results in both business segments • €14.1m operating profit and €5.5m pre-tax profit • Operating [...]
Trinity Mirror: response to media speculation over Northern and Shell assets
The Board of Trinity Mirror PLC has noted the recent media speculation and confirms that it is at an early stage of evaluating certain of Northern & Shell’s assets. There is no certainty that any [...]
Mortons nominated for newspaper awards
Shortlists for the newsawards 2015 have been announced and all five products submitted by Mortons Media Group are in the running for honours. The Lincolnshire-based printer and publisher has been nominated for Regional Newspaper Printer [...]
National newspaper journalism celebrated at Press Awards
UK campaigning and investigative journalism was celebrated at The Press Awards for national newspapers organised by the Society of Editors this week. The Times took the main accolades of the evening, winning eight awards including [...]
NCTJ and Sky Sports News debut video about journalism apprencticeships
A video promoting journalism apprenticeships has been unveiled on the NCTJ website to mark National Apprenticeship Week (9-13 March). The video was commissioned by the NCTJ to raise awareness of the training scheme as a [...]
