Leicester Mercury managing director Tony Hill has joined an international think-tank looking at the future of newspapers and advertising.
Hill will link up with newspaper executives from several countries as part of the World Association of Newspapers' two-year project. He said: "It's an honour for me and for the Mercury."

Magistrates ruled that a teenager who breached an anti-social behaviour order in Norwich could be identified by the press, after a joint application to the bench by the Norwich Evening News and Eastern Daily Press.
There was an automatic ban on identifying the 17-year-old defendant at his original trial.

Leeds theatre-goers have been given a boost by the Yorkshire Evening Post's The Shows Must Go On campaign.
The paper hopes to raise money to fund desperately-needed improvements to the Leeds City Varieties theatre, which has been threatened with closure.

Newsquest have announced the retirement of newspaper sales director Vic Ling, who has stepped down after a career spanning more than 30 years in newspapers.
Vic, (57), said: "From my very first day I found working in this industry both stimulating and exciting."

Former Derby Evening Telegraph worker Bernard Moore, who was held captive as a prisoner of war for four years during the Second World War, has died, aged 94.
Bernard worked for 38 years as a stone hand in the composing room at Northcliffe House, Derby.

There is still a week to change the future policies and activities of the National Union of Journalists.
During that time branch meetings across the region will be scrutinising the preliminary agenda for the union's annual conference, which takes place in Liverpool in late March.

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