The third Positive Images awards, to reward media outlets which give young people a voice and help to battle negative stereotypes, have been launched.
The deadline for entry is February 23, with information on all the categories, last year’s winners and a downloadable application form available at www.ypnmagazine.com/campaign. Last year’s winner of the press category was the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.

The Bristol Evening Post is to run a primetime television advertising campaign to attract new or lapsed readers.
The ad, to be shown during Coronation Street and Emmerdale, features a demanding boss asking his secretary for information – with her finding all the answers in the pages of the Post.

MP Grant Shapps is backing a bid by the Welwyn and Hatfield Times to stop the Government watering down the Freedom of Information Act.
Two weeks ago it launched the campaign, calling on readers to help save the act, and has won backing from the local MP, who is planning to table an Early Day Motion in Parliament.

Robb Montgomery, the former news design editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and founder of Visual Editors.com, has joined the network of professionals and academics leading discussions in the Journalism Leaders’ Programme at the University of Central Lancashire.
His first commitment in Preston will be at a four-day Journalism and the Market seminar later this month when he will lead the session discussing how the Toronto Sun and Chicago Sun-Times used guerrilla marketing techniques to find new readers and strengthen their brands.

The ‘green’ credentials of Liberal Democrats in Leith have been called into question after it was revealed that publicity material for the group was printed 450 miles away, by The Northcliffe Press in Exeter.
Critics say carbon emissions from transporting the leaflets were an unnecessary cost to the environment.