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UK first for The Sun and MemoStick technology
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 [...]
NEWS Academy Summer School students have produced their own paper at Newsprinters’ Broxbourne plant in Hertfordshire
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 [...]
DUNDEE-based DC Thomson has rebranded and relaunched its print division
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 [...]
David Cameron Hosts Regional Media Reception
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 [...]
Independent News & Media signs long-term deal with Dubsat for digital delivery of print ads
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 [...]
Local media web traffic grows 50 per cent in a year
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 [...]
Communities department writes to seven local authorities over council newspapers
The Communities Department has written to seven local authorities requesting that their publications comply with the publicity code which seeks to rein in aggressive council newspapers. The letter, from Under Secretary of State Kris Hopkins, went to [...]
Carpetright uses 1Local for the first time
Carpet and flooring retailer Carpetright has used 1Local, the regional press package for national advertisers, for the first time. Planned by Mediacom, ads have been run in all 71 daily regional titles across the UK. The booking follows [...]
Trinity Mirror Midlands to adopt digital-first newsrooms by the end of September
Trinity Mirror Midlands has announced it is planning to introduce Newsroom 3.1 – the new editorial structure supporting a digital-first publishing process – by the end of September. It follows the successful introduction of the [...]
Archant appoints new chief executive to drive next phase of its transformation
Archant, the leading independent regional media business, announced today [21 August 2014] the appointment of Jeff Henry as its new chief executive. He will join the business on September 1, 2014. “We are delighted that [...]
Regional publishers help set new journalistic standard
Regional publishing groups have helped set in stone a new apprenticeship standard to help non-graduates get into journalism. Archant, Johnston Press, the KM Group and Newsquest are among publishers who have developed the scheme as part of the government’s ‘trailblazer’ [...]
AX News Wins Newspaper of The Year with help from Lincoln School of Journalism
And more success for Cowley Chronicle team The February 2014 edition of the Ax News, the newspaper of the Axholme Academy, Crowle, North Lincolnshire, produced in partnership with the Lincoln School of Journalism and printed [...]
