One former Derby Evening Telegraph journalist is following another as business editor of the award-winning Yorkshire Post. David Parkin (29), London editor of the Western Mail, will succeed Peter Curtain, who is joining the new Scottish business paper, Business a.m.,
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News In Brief from around the regions
Regional press news – this story updated 23.6.2000 News In Brief from around the regions by HoldTheFrontPage staff THE BEAUTIFUL GAME: Football fans can now log on and share poetic thoughts on a new Internet site. The Gloucestershire Echo reported
News Photographer of the Year
BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff News Photographer of the Year Judge Andy Blackmore, picture editor of the Independent on Sunday, said the standard of entries was excellent, with many terrific images from the Rugby World
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Best publisher organised event – weekly newspapersWinner: West Lothian Courier – Livingston F.C. Open DayHighly commended: Morecambe Visitor – The Night Before ChristmasCertificate of merit: Oxford Times Series – In Business Exhibition Best in-paper reader offer – daily/Sunday newspapersWinner: Evening
Sales figures show winners and losers
MORE than 50 regional daily newspapers lost sales in the second half of 1999, new figures show. But the message from the Newspaper Society was upbeat after data for 1,224 daily and weekly titles was published on the same day
Together we can boost sales
Teamwork between editorial, sales and promotions is the key to boosting regional newspaper sales. That will be one of the key messages at the Newspaper Society’s two-day annual newspaper sales conference which started in Manchester today. More than 300 delegates
Reporter turns detective
South Wales Echo reporter Cathy Coleman turned sleuth to beat the rest of thepress – and the police – when a body turned up in the River Taff in Cardiff. Cathy, who covers the crime beat for the Echo, realised
Supplement devoted to junior sport
Sporty youngsters in South Wales now have their own newspaper. Juniorsport, a free, full-colour supplement, will be published every month with the South Wales Echo. The first edition appeared on January 25 and included pictures, reports, personality profiles, a contacts
Latest resolved complaints dealt with by the PCC
Claims of inaccuracy and intrusion are levelled at the regional press
Echo claims victory as £14bn military training academy goes to south Wales
Late final edition brings good news to readers after more than 3,500 signed in support of new base
D-Day veterans set for Normandy trip thanks to Echo
Almost 100 veterans and their families are to travel to Normandy for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, thanks to the South Wales Echo and its Operation Echo appeal. A party of 96 D-Day veterans and their companions were due to
Victory for Echo's pensions fight
The South Wales Echo’s long-running campaign to win compensation for steelworkers who lost their pensions has paid off in spectacular fashion, benefiting millions of workers. The Government has announced a £400m fund to help 60,000 workers whose employers have gone
Echo speaks out for its readers in reservoir battle
The South Wales Echo has sent a clear message to Cardiff council’s planning committee over a proposed development at Llanishen Reservoir. Western Power Distribution has put forward an application to build more than 300 houses on land at the redundant
Ad revenues continue to drop at Trinity Mirror
Group’s regional division saw advertising revenues drop by 10.4 per cent in first four months of 2006
Revenues growth expected at Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror is expecting advertising and circulation revenues across all its businesses to have improved on last year, according to its latest trading update. The group, which publishes more than 250 titles, has said that overall advertising revenues for the
How to raise circulation by 32.5 per cent: Win the cup!
The cup final edition of the Evening Gazette, Teesside, scored a 32.5 per cent circulation increase following Middlesbrough’s League Cup football success. The paper sold an extra 20,000 copies year-on-year on Monday March 1, according to the latest figures. The