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Courts reminded to provide adequate seating for journalists

Staff at courts across England and Wales are to be reminded that journalists reporting on criminal trials should have proper seating in courts.
The move by Her Majesty’s Court Service comes after the Press Association raised the issue of the growing number of courts which apparently had no seating for the press, meaning journalists had to sit in the public gallery.
It also follows incidents in which journalists sitting in public galleries had encountered problems.


Tim Brooks, managing director of Guardian News and Media has been elected chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association for this year. He takes over the annual appointment from Kevin Beatty, MD of Associated Newspapers.


Archant Life has acquired four more new magazines to add to its fast-growing portfolio. The new additions include Compass Magazines – a portfolio of three magazines comprising two monthly letterbox titles and an annual tourist guide.
With offices in Bournemouth and Southampton, the magazines have been bought from Peter Cranham and Colin and Maria Lansley. Archant Life has also acquired a fourth, monthly title called Compass Wey which is currently published under a franchise agreement and based in Farnham.


Journalists have no right to ask employment tribunals to lift reporting restrictions they have imposed unless they join themselves as parties to a case, according to a new decision.
Media Lawyer reports that they also have no right to ask for a reporting restriction to be lifted if one of the parties to a case withdraws before the proceedings have finished and the tribunal has issued a decision, according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Edinburgh.
The judgment represents a serious blow to the media’s right to report employment tribunal cases in which reporting restrictions are imposed.


A new method to measure the full reach of its multiplatform media business has been pioneered by Trinity Mirror Regionals.
It provides advertisers with the unduplicated reach of Trinity’s regional assets, both print and digital.
The data demonstrates that the Trinity Mirror Regionals websites add an additional ten per cent unduplicated reach to the entire TMR print and digital portfolio in the UK.


A pantomime has been making the headlines at Archant Norfolk. Oh yes it is – the Fakenham and Wells Times has landed a starring role in a production of the Wizard of Oz.
Reporter Richard Parr is making his panto debut in the role of the wizard and some of the characters – Dorothy, the Lion and the Tin Man – discover him in the castle reading the latest edition of the Times.