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Fifty posts are to be made redundant at the Western Mail & Echo Ltd, parent company Trinity Mirror has announced. The cuts will affect all areas of the business, including The Western Mail, South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday and
The Jersey Evening Post and Guernsey Press and Star have a new owner, after a bid by newspaper publisher the Claverley Company was declared unconditional. The family-owned Claverley Company, which publishes the Shropshire Star and the Express & Star in
Last week Holdthefrontpage reported on Oxford Courier reporter Robert Wilkinson being volunteered for a spell in a police cell for charity. He did it – but it wasn’t very much fun. Here’s his account of what happened… If being arrested
The Newspaper Press Fund will receive more than £3,000 as a result of the ‘This Is Bristol Spectacular’ starring The Foundations and Berni Flint. An equal amount will also go to the Lord Mayor of Bristol’s Christmas Appeal for Children
Trinity Mirror is to sell its Irish regional newspapers to venture capital group 3i for £46.3m. The deal will see The News Letter in Belfast, the Belfast News, Farming Life, Derry Journal, Donegal Democrat, Donegal People’s Press, Letterkenny Listener, Foyle
Durham’s first official city crier faced some tough opposition from unexpected quarters when Northern Echo reporter Gavin Engelbrecht threw his hat into the ring for the job. Having once worked as a megaphone man on the streets of Dublin, he
The Aberdeen Evening Express has been giving a Premier League footballer a helping hand in his quest to become a journalist. David Preece, the number one goalkeeper for Scottish Premier League side Aberdeen FC, has set his sights on becoming
Eight posts are to go at publishing company Archant. Archant Suffolk, the part of the company affected, says progress with content – and new technology – means that fewer people are needed to produce its titles. The company, which publishes
Former Leicester Mercury journalist Simeon Garner has died. He was 89. Simeon joined the newspaper as an editorial office boy after leaving school and worked his way up the ladder to become deputy editor. After becoming a reporter in 1930
Journalists from newspapers, television and radio will celebrate next Tuesday as they collect prizes for crystal-clear reporting. There are six categories in the media section of the annual Plain English Campaign awards. The Western Daily Press has scooped the award
Brian Aitken is to be the new editor of The Journal in Newcastle. The 43-year old father-of-four will join the paper after leaving his current position as editorial development manager for Trinity Mirror Regionals. He has previously held senior positions
A senior journalism lecturer at Cardiff School of Journalism has died, aged 60. Geoff Mungham Geoff Mungham, a war reporting specialist, died in his sleep in Utrecht, where he had been teaching, and had enjoyed a party with his students
A major journalism conference in Belfast is to tackle the topic of press freedom. The National Union of Journalists, which is organising the event, claims the Government’s attack on BBC journalism was just one of the pressures in independent journalism.
A Western Gazette journalist has helped to raise thousands of pounds for charity – by climbing around on her hands and knees caked in mud. Chief reporter Zena O’Rourke joined more than 1,000 people who gave up their Sunday morning
The Oxford Mail is preparing to celebrate its 75th anniversary with an in-house party, a souvenir supplement – and even a tea dance. The big day falls on December 12 and the paper is planning a week of festivities to
George Wheatman, editor of the SE Lincs Target Series, is to retire at the end of the year. The 66-year-old has spent more than 50 years working for newspapers in Boston, starting out as a trainee for the Lincolnshire Standard