by holdthefrontpage staff
Education secretary Charles Clarke has helped launch an online service at the Eastern Daily Press which will help youngsters to pick their future career.
The EDP24 website "So you want to be…", has information on a wide range of careers.
Dundee Courier features editor Catriona MacInnes helped judge a debating contest on the press and freedom of speech.
The motion This House Would Gag the Press argued for and against censorship in the event, jointly run by the Courier.
The motion was carried.
Four reporters have been presented with their NVQ certificates, gaining the qualification in Newspaper Journalism (Writing) at Archant.
Pete Walsh, Craig Mowat, Olivia Richwald and Hugh Bowring received their certificates from Archant Norfolk managing director Barry Dennis.
Budding newshounds have been busy sniffing out stories for the pages of the Lincolnshire Echo.
The idea behind the project at a Gainsborough school is to get people at the heart of communities to publish and promote their own village news, with topics being written up for the paper's Grapevine column.
A petition organised by the Evening Times in Glasgow to save a city hospital is being hailed by the paper as a record breaker.
More than 120,000 people have signed up in support of a maternity hospital - and a recent public meeting attracted 400 people.
Two long-serving managers have retired from the Archant publishing group.
Archant Regional finance director Andrew Halsey has left after 25 years' service, while projects manager Tony Moore has been with the company for 10 years.
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