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 from the regional press were expected to attend.

The conference will cover a range of subjects including: developing products to meet customers’ needs; the impact of free daily newspapers; and the future development of the regional newspaper industry.

Among the speakers will be:
Mike Newman, circulation director, Mail Newspapers
Russell Borthwick, head of marketing development, Trinity Mirror Publishing, UK and Ireland
David Marriot, managing director, MEN Direct
Peter Spencer, sports editor, Manchester Evening News
Lorraine O’Brien, marketing director, Liverpool Daily Post and Echo
Alan Smith, newspaper sales and promotions director, Aberdeen Journals Ltd

The newspaper sales and promotions awards will be presented at a gala dinner tomorrow.

The list of newspapers which have been nominated is:-

• Belfast Telegraph
• Bournemouth Daily Echo
• Bradford Telegraph & Argus
• Bristol Evening Post
• Bucks Herald
• Burnley Express
• Cambridge Evening News
• Courier Newspapers
• Crosby Herald
• Derby Evening Telegraph
• Dorset Echo
• Dumfries and Galloway Standard
• Eastbourne Herald
• Eastern Daily Press
• Evening Advertiser – Swindon
• Evening Herald – Plymouth
• Evening Herald – Scotland
• Evening News – Norwich
• Evening Times – Glasgow
• Galloway News
• Garstang Courier & Longbridge News
• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Telegraph
• Hamilton Advertiser
• Herald/Sunday Times – Glasgow
• Highbury & Islington Express
• Kentish Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Guardian Series
• Liverpool Echo
• Lynn News
• Mansfield Chad
• Nelson Leader Series
• Newcastle Evening Chronicle
• Newcastle Journal
• Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Sunday Sun
• Newsletter – Belfast
• Nottingham Evening Post
• Ormskirk Advertiser Series
• Oxford Times Series
• Pontypridd & Llantrisant Observer
• Press and Journal/Evening Express – Aberdeen
• Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
• Sheffield Star
• South Wales Echo
• Southern Daily Echo
• Southport Visitor
• Stirling Observer
• Sunday Herald – Glasgow
• Swindon Evening Advertiser
• Teesside Evening Gazette
• Welland Valley Newspapers
  
• Welshpool County Times
• West Lothian Courier
• Western Gazette
• Western Mail & Echo
• Western Morning News
• Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
• Wolverhampton Express and Star
• York & County Press
• Yorkshire Evening Post

The Newspaper Society represents more than 1,300 daily and weekly, paid-for and free, newspaper titles in the UK.

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