NUJ is looking for answers – plus PTC accreditation for Bournemouth, and more news in brief
Newsquest
- Head Office: 58 Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8DP
- Website: www.newsquest.co.uk
Owned by US-based publisher Gannett, Newsquest is one of the UK’s largest publishers of local and regional newspapers with more than 300 titles.
Its major UK publishing centres include York and Glasgow and it employs more than 8,000 staff.
A relatively young company, Newsquest was born in 1995 from Reed Regional Newspapers and has since acquired long-established publisher Westminster Press.
More information can be found on the company’s website at www.newsquest.co.uk.
What we have written about Newsquest
National five per cent pay bid by journalists' union
NUJ targets Newsquest and Trinity Mirror in request for talks
South London pay dispute is settled
National Union of Journalists members accept three per cent pay offer following three days of strike action
London strikers return to work – but no deal is reached
NUJ says more than 40 staff took part in protest over pay – plus news from Sheffield and Coventry
More strike action to hit Coventry titles
NUJ members walk out over pay in Coventry and London, plus update on Sheffield dispute
'Disappointment' over action after seven months of talks
Management remains willing to continue talks in search of settlement
Strike dates set for London weekly newspaper
Industrial action follows “nought per cent pay offer”
Name change for the Evening Advertiser
Campaign push and edition changes prompt new identity for Wiltshire title
Change of edition structure at The Argus
New geographic editions will include more specific in-depth news in a bid to attract more readers
Scottish weekly to launch commuter edition
New edition “will significantly widen paper’s appeal and coverage to both readers and advertisers”
Weekly newspaper hits the airwaves
Packet series teams up with local broadcasting students to set up new radio station
New editors for Sussex titles
Reshuffle sees new appointments made at several Johnston weeklies
Newsquest launches new weekly
West End Mail will be a “genuinely local, quality paper” and distributed to 30,000 homes
Former Observer staff sought to share anniversary celebrations
Did you used to work for the 20-year-old paper? Current staff are appealing for your memories
Parliamentary praise for Guardian
MPs congratulate 25-year-old title on its “high standard of local reporting” and campaigning work
Form Bolton to Bury for new editor Ian
Evening News deputy takes charge at weekly newspaper group