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Chronicle chooses new editor

Keith Redbourn is to become the new editor of the Hampshire Chronicle. Currently editor of the Wokingham Times, he is expected to join the Winchester-based title in March, succeeding Alan Cleaver, who is moving to the Lake District. Keith (pictured)

New MD for south coast publishing company

John Banks has been appointed regional managing director of Newsquest (Hampshire). Previously holding the same role in Newsquest’s South West region, his new job is based in Southampton. Newsquest (Hampshire) covers publishing centres at Andover, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Southampton and Winchester.

'Christmas Chronicles' hits the stage

A weekly title believes it could have become the first newspaper to put on… a stage show. The Hampshire Chronicle thinks it may have achieved a world-first with The Christmas Chronicles – a show staged at Winchester’s Theatre Royal. It

Editor to leave paper for new life in The Lakes

Hampshire Chronicle editor Alan Cleaver is to leave the paper after eight years at the helm. He and his partner, Lesley Park, who also works on the Winchester-based title, plan to move to the Lake District early next year. Alan,

'Haunted' Chronicle on the move after 200 years

Staff at the Hampshire Chronicle are to move to new offices later this year. Editorial, advertising, newspaper sales and marketing staff at the Winchester paper will move to a new building with improved facilities in the autumn. But there is

Phantoms found at newspaper office

The offices of the Hampshire Chronicle have provided some spooky goings on for a team of television ghost hunters. The group from the ‘Phantom or Fraud’ project spent the night in the listed building in Winchester High Street and came

News in brief

MPs, newspaper readers and a town crier joined members of the National Union of Journalists as staff from Newsquest titles held a series of events as part of their campaign for better pay.The protests in Blackburn, Bolton, Bromley, Oxford and

Chronicle goes e-lectronic

A second trial of a purely electronic version of the Hampshire Chronicle is set to begin. A year ago the Chronicle ran a successful eight-week trial publishing the paper in Microsoft Reader format and e-mailing it to volunteer “guinea pigs”

Digital media opens up Titanic experience

A digital media team has taken to the water with the launch of a brand new section on This is Southampton devoted to the city’s maritime past and present. Taking content from the pages of the Daily Echo and Hampshire

E-book publishing takes off for Graham

Freelance journalist Graham Smith of Mediaworld has taken on the challenge of building the e-book website bestbooksonline.net which publishes work by authors and journalists from all over the world. The site gives writers who would normally be rejected by traditional

Sailors' site from Newsquest Southern

Newsquest’s busy Southern Digital Media team has launched a brand new website in time for the Volvo Ocean Race and Southampton Boat Show. Sailsolent.co.uk is a dedicated site for Solent sailors to provide them with news, events, results and information

Growing business and boosting profit – the answers

Key figures from the world of digital information will be sharing their knowledge at a major newspaper conference. The Newspaper Society’s New Media Conference is aimed at people involved in the development of electronic media and e-commerce in the regional

Newspapers? I remember them…

Page 1 of 2 The e-newspaper has arrived – and it’s alive and kicking in the south ofEngland. You can now have your weekly news e-mailed to your in-box instead of posted through your letterbox. The team at the Hampshire

Things that go bump in the night

The Hampshire Chronicle’s own “pet” ghost turned up again this week – rather neatly in time for Hallowe’en. The spectre made its appearance in the corridors of the paper’s Winchester High Street offices. Sub editor Lesley Park had the surprise

Is this the beginning of the end for printed newspapers

Hampshire Chronicle editor Alan Cleaver believes the e-paper could mean the end of newspapers as we know them. The Winchester-based Chronicle, which celebrates its 228th birthday this week, is at the cutting edge of this new technology as the first