The National Union of Journalists wants to get the regulations on reporting restrictions for covering employment tribunals changed.There can be problems for media coverage if a case is settled before it gets to a hearing, and reporting restrictions can remain
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.
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Western Morning News reporter Neil Young got a passenger’s eye view of rallying as he joined Subaru driver Steve Furzeland for a gentle spin in the Westcountry Regency Stages Rally.Afterwards he said: “I can see why people find rally car
Argus sales hit seven-year high
The start of February brought the South Wales Argus its highest selling week for seven years. Base sale for Monday-Saturday topped 31,800 for the first time since 1997, a rise of nearly two per cent on the same week in
First penny title celebrates 150th
The country’s first ‘penny’ title, the Evening Advertiser in Swindon, is about to celebrate its 150th anniversary. When it was founded in 1854 as Britain’s first penny newspaper, it had just one employee – editor and proprietor William Morris –
Echo's £25,000 boost for crisis-hit club
Darlington Football Club’s fight for survival has been given an important boost thanks to a fund-raising initiative by The Northern Echo. The Newsquest title has raised nearly £25,000 in only a week after appealing to local businesses, organisations and individuals
Million-dollar cash handout by UK newspaper group
Community groups in areas served by Newsquest titles will share in a near $1m cash bonanza this year. A total of $970,000 is available to worthy causes in the UK from the Gannett Foundation, sponsored entirely by Newsquest’s American parent
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
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Journalists represented by the National Union of Journalists at Newsquest Bradford, which publishes the Telegraph & Argus, Craven Herald, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette and Wharfedale Observer, have voted to accept a two-year-pay deal.Most will receive a 2.65 per cent deal
150th celebrations for biggest Welsh weekly
The Western Telegraph – the biggest selling weekly in Wales – has celebrated its 150th anniversary. Special events are planned throughout the year, which kicked off with a 40-page special supplement this week. It highlighted some of the best news
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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
Somerset weekly rushes out earthquake edition
Staff at the Somerset County Gazette were shaken into action … quite literally. The week’s issue had just rolled off the Weymouth press when Taunton and the surrounding area was rocked by a series of earthquakes. Not wishing to miss
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The Newspaper Society’s annual lunch is due to take place on Tuesday May 4 at The Savoy Hotel in London.All newspaper society members have been invited to the event, at which former director general of the BBC Greg Dyke was
Keep Kerry in the jungle!
Kerry McFadden should stay in the jungle – that’s the view of the Warrington Guardian, which has launched a campaign to keep her in a reality TV show. The cry-baby has emerged as the favourite to be first to be
Newspaper archives to get a new home
A historic archive of photographs and cuttings from Newsquest’s Scottish newspapers is to be moved to Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. Around two million images and thousands of cuttings from The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times are currently stored at their
33 MPs back Mitchell's fair pay petition
MP and former journalist Austin Mitchell has won the backing of 33 parliamentary colleagues for his early day motion calling for fair pay for Newsquest employees. The former TV broadcaster tabled the motion after quoting figures he said showed many
Record start to 2004 for Gazette
The Somerset County Gazette has produced its biggest issue in the paper’s 168-year history. The 160-page edition included a record Homelife property supplement, which ran at 64 pages. It also contained a 16-page Nativity plays special, featuring more than 90