The Newspaper Society is gathering feedback from the advertising community on the effectiveness of recent initiatives launched to promote local media.
A survey has been e-mailed to around 2,500 clients to seek views on how local media has changed in the past year, their thoughts on the Society and recent research work.

A newspaper journalism course at Nottingham Trent University has once again achieved the best overall university results in the country.
For the second year running, the MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism gained top university marks in the National Council for the Training of Journalists exam tables.

The Head of News at ITV Central Dan Barton has resigned to become the new PR and communications chief at Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
He is due to join the council in the new year after 10 years with ITV. His other former posts include deputy editor of The Birmingham Post and editor of the Brighton and Hove Leader

Great Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell presented an Early Day Motion expressing his concerns over pension fund plans by Newsquest's owners Gannett. The former journalist told Parliament that the company was seeking to "shift the burden of its final salary pension scheme on to staff". He said such a move would undermine support for the pension scheme and called on the publisher to use some of their £120m profits for 2006-07 to protect the pensions of the scheme's 9,000 members.

Les Hinton, director of regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press plc, has resigned from the board.
He will now take up the role of chief executive officer with Dow Jones & Company, in New York.

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