Duncan Edwards, chief executive of the National Magazine Company, is to deliver a keynote speech at the UK Association of Online Publishers’ annual conference on 3 October, taking place at the London Hilton, Park Lane.
He will outline his experiences in attracting, retaining and monetising online audiences.

Newsquest’s owners Gannett have opened up breaking news, sports, weather and other local information for easy access by mobile phone users in more than 100 local markets across America, including 84 local newspapers.
The local mobile sites are designed to appear on small screens and include content – updated 24/7 – produced by local Gannett Information Centers.
The new mobile sites carry local, regional and national display advertising and are free to consumers with mobile internet browsing and data plans.

The Express & Echo’s Save Our Sight campaign looks closer to success after helping to force a rethink on NHS guidelines on anti-blindness drugs.
Sufferers of the wet form of age-related macular degeneration have welcomed a decision which gives them renewed hope of receiving the pioneering treatments.
The Echo’s campaign was aimed at giving the drug Lucentis – which has been shown to have miraculous sight-saving effects – to all the patients in Devon who need it.

A woman who talks to her flowers claims they thrive best when listening to her reading Southern Daily Echo editor Ian Murray in his regular column in the Weekend Magazine each Saturday.
“The only thing I do for them is read to them from the Daily Echo,” she said.

Two childhood friends who lost touch more than 40 years ago are looking forward to an emotional reunion – all thanks to the Lancashire Telegraph.
Raymond Riley and Richard Bailey knew each other as teenagers growing up in Wiltshire in the 1950s, but they lost touch in the early 60s when Raymond moved to Earby, where he was working as a toolmaker.