by holdthefrontpage staff
Former Lincolnshire Chronicle photographer Mike Maloney gave students an insight to the world of the Paparazzi during a lecture at the University of Lincoln.
The award-winning snapper, who is also a former chief photographer at the Mirror Group, was the latest speaker at the university in a series entitled Journalists Speak Out on Journalism.
The Eastern Daily Press's Abandoned Children Appeal has given new lives to 30 Romanian orphans by buying them a complete farm in an impoverished region of northern Romania.
The ranch is now home to the disabled young people who were facing an early death in one of the country's awful adult asylums.
Over the past year, the EDP's shocking and moving stories on the plight of the children have sparked a major fund-raising effort that helped more than doubled the paper's £50,000 target.
Teamwork meant that more than 680 people turned out for a business event organised by the Evening Press at York.
The paper teamed up with the area's Chamber of Commerce to organise the one-day Business2Business exhibition at York Racecourse in which 65 businesses from North and East Yorkshire took part.
It was a far cry from last year's exhibition when only 60 people and a handful of exhibitors turned out for the whole event.
The Jersey Evening Post/Highlands College Ball Park Appeal has hit its £55,000 target.
Work will now start on much-needed leisure facilities at the college.
Young newshounds are hearing all about their local newspaper as part of the Bolton Evening News' educational tour of schools.
Pupils are being given a talk about the history of the paper and its sister publications, which include the Bolton Journal, Bury Times and Leigh Journal.
Staff, together with Bolton Wanderers mascot Lofty the Lion, are visiting 30 schools in the area.
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