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Bill Wood, the chief examiner for journalism training organisation the NCTJ, has stepped down from the key role. He worked full time at the National Council for the Training of Journalists for 17 years until 1992 and for many years
The Evening Star in Ipswich has seen in the New Year with a new look to its senior team. A trio of appointments has been made to strengthen the Archant title’s content-gathering operation. Acting deputy news editor Martin Davey is
The Sentinel is celebrating its 150th birthday this week, and to mark the occasion is reproducing its first edition. Then called The Staffordshire Sentinel And Commercial and General Advertiser, the first issue was printed on Saturday, January 7, 1854, and
Tributes have been paid to the former Cannock Advertiser and Walsall Observer editor Barry Gough, who was found dead at New Year after being missing for more than two months. Barry had also worked as a journalist at the Birmingham
The arrival of the world’s biggest ocean liner in her home port of Southampton is proving a big “hit” for Newsquest Southern’s digital media team. Boxing Day saw the arrival of the new Cunard liner, QM2, in the city. Website
The Herald in Glagow has unveiled a new-look website after listening to the views of its online users. Theherald.co.uk has been redesigned with the aim of making it easier to navigate and read. Visitors to the website can now increase
Newsquest Wiltshire’s Swindon Town FC website is proving to be top of the league this season. As well as scooping the Best Niche Internet Site (Community) at Monday’s Newspaper Society New Media Awards, www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk, reached an all-time high of 405,768
Press industry bodies are to take part in discussions with the Government over plans to set up trial schemes for putting digital material in libraries and helping people to access it. The Digital Content Forum, which includes The Newspaper Society,
The Bristol Evening Post is aiming to further raise the profile of its hard-hitting cancer campaign with the launch of a new dedicated website. The paper launched its campaign – labelled One in Four because the disease claims a life
With less than a month to go to the big day Newsquest Wiltshire has launched its This is Christmas website. The site – which can be found here – is a one-stop guide to all things festive across Wiltshire. This
Oyez, oyez. The Evening Press at York turned back the clock to deliver an urgent message to readers about hi-tech changes. The paper brought in York’s town crier John Redpath to shout out to the city all about exciting new
The Association of Online Publishers has relaunched its website – offering enhanced services and ease of use for its members. The site contains news, information, press releases and legal advice, as well as a members-only section. The members-only area houses
Welsh language newspaper Y Cymro is pressing ahead with an innovation to make it completely available in digital format on the Internet. Later this month, readers will be able to receive an exact digital replica of the printed version with
A new-look Shropshire Star website has been launched after more than half a year of development. Shropshirestar.com has been revamped to include more content and to allow users to navigate the site more easily. The site’s homepage now contains links
Manchester Evening News editor Paul Horrocks has reaffirmed his support for the Press Complaints Commission – and explained when and why he would sanction long lens photography in his paper. As a member of the Commission, he helps make decide
Yorkshire Evening Post sub-editor Liz Carnell is celebrating a £10,000 government grant for her charity Bullying Online. The money will be used to pay running costs for the charity at www.bullying.co.uk which is gearing itself up for the new school