“Cash-starved local journalists” will protest about their wages at the back door of the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday, as regional press barons meet at the Newspaper Society AGM, according to the National Union of Journalists.
The union says the Society, which works for the regional press industry, has been “blowing its trumpet” about the industry’s £3bn advertising revenues, while journalists remain on “poverty wages”.

The World Association of Newspapers is inviting submissions for its eighth annual World Young Reader Prize, which rewards initiatives for attracting young readers to newspapers.
The prize will be awarded to a newspaper which has devised the most innovative project or activity for young reader development – editorial strategies for and by the young, youth marketing or newspapers in education.

The mayor and other town dignitaries attended a celebration for the official opening of the Kent and Sussex Courier’s new Tonbridge office.
A party was held at the building on High Street and the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling was invited to cut the ribbon and declare the office officially open.

Empics is to handle commercial sales in the UK and Ireland for the photos of The Associated Press, one of the world’s leading international news agencies.
With effect from May 1, Empics customers will have access to AP’s highly-respected daily photo production and archive photography via www.empics.com. All AP commercial picture requests and licensing administration for UK and Ireland customers will be handled by the Empics team of dedicated account managers and researchers.

The London Press Club is to host a midsummer ball in July.
The event, hosted by television quiz hostess Carol Vorderman, will raise money for the Newspaper Press Fund. National and regional newspaper proprietors, television executives and journalists will gather at the Natural History Museum on July 7.

Evening Standard reporter Lloyd Evans has trained to be a wheelclamper, passing on vital nuggets of information to his readers.
He described tutors, tricks, tips and dodges that help the clamper’ success while on a course leading to what will become a compulsory BTec qualification.