Chris Barry has been promoted to business editor at the Manchester Evening News.
He has worked at the paper for the past eight years, joining as a business reporter, and was previously deputy business editor.
The paper’s business section has recently been relaunched in a supplement format on a Tuesday, and in addition there are two business pages in the paper each day during the remainder of the week.

Kent Messenger Group president Edwin Boorman has received the Newspaper Society’s President’s Prize.
The prize is awarded to people who have given exceptional service to the regional newspaper industry, and there have only been nine previous recipients.
Edwin stepped down from his role as chairman of KMG at the end of 2005 after more than 40 years in charge of the independent family-owned newspaper group.

Community groups in areas covered by Newsquest newspapers are celebrating a windfall of more than £300,000, through grants made by its parent company’s charitable arm, the Gannett Foundation.
Some 59 organisations have been given cash, ranging from £50,000 to £1,000, to help them fund anything from soft toys for children with disabilities to buying buses for people in isolated communities in areas from Falmouth to Glasgow and Pembrokeshire.

New figures show record numbers of smokers in Bolton are stubbing out the habit.
A total of 2,149 people stopped between April 2005 and March this year, with the help of Bolton’s Stop Smoking Services.
It follows a campaign by the Bolton Evening News to encourage local people to give up cigarettes.

The Press and Journal is among the sources of inspiration for an exhibition at Dundee University.
A quirky installation put together by fine art student Ewan Manson includes a stack of copies of the Aberdeen-based paper.
All the objects included represent his unrealised ideas from the past few years – he had originally planned to cut the papers up and make a print of his face.

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