Welcome to our main news index. Here you will find all the news stories that have appeared on the site since our launch in February 2000.
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A Hertfordshire weekly is read by eight out of ten people in its circulation area, according to research by the local authority. When people were quizzed on which local newspaper they read, an overwhelming 78 per cent – almost eight
Johnston Press is predicting annual profits at the top of the range of current market estimates in its latest trading update. Advertising revenue has continued to grow, circulation of its weekly papers is up, and costs have been reined in
Trinity Mirror has released its latest set of trading results, which show encouraging advertising growth in the past two months. The figures are an update for the second half of the financial year and are issued prior to the preliminary
Newspapers across the country are due to be microfilmed in January as part of a long term plan to preserve the important historical record. Eventually, more than 1,600 of the country’s most fragile newspaper titles will be saved for the
Press Association editor Jonathan Grun has been installed as president of the Society of Editors – and reminded his audience at the Society’s conference never to lose sight of why they do their jobs. The conference has examined the major
Archant is poised to “acquire and expand” after winning permission from its shareholders to increase its borrowing capacity to £270m. The firm wants to double its size in the next seven years and believes it is at the right stage
Johnston Press editors are being urged to write to Home Secretary David Blunkett calling for talks between police chiefs, senior media managers and newspaper editors to review the role of police press officers. The move comes after a survey for
A new survey for the Newcastle Chronicle & Journal and the Gazette Media Company, which run newspapers in north-east, shows they are one of the leading media information providers throughout the region, reaching more than one million readers a week.
Scottish Radio Holdings’ press division has seen profits from continuing operations increase by seven per cent, to £7.4m, in the past year. Its total revenues, excluding exceptional items, went up by three per cent this year, while its profit margin
Northcliffe has turned around the circulation of its regional papers thanks to a £7m investment in editorial and marketing, according to its latest results statement. The move helped its circulation outperform the regional newspaper industry as a whole. The regional
Reorganisation and redundancy costs have cost publishers the Daily Mail and General Trust some £10m this year, according to the latest trading figures. But the Group’s businesses have continued to perform in difficult trading conditions, despite the extended weakness in
The Western Morning News produced a special 32-page supplement following last Sunday’s countryside march in London. The March for Liberty & Livelihood supplement contained 16 articles from WMN reporters and a full page of comment from editor Barrie Williams. It
The regional press must be free to compete with other media on an equal footing or it will be disadvantaged, Tim Bowdler has told delegates at the Society of Editor’s annual conference. Giving the third annual lecture at the York
Increased secrecy in the UK’s local government system means the role of newspapers and the media is more important than ever before, the Society of Editors annual conference heard. Paul Francis, political correspondent for the Kent Messenger Group, told the
The Society of Editors’ conference in York opened on Sunday evening with outgoing president Liz Page, of the Evening Press, promising a “whistle-stop tour of all the best the media has to offer”. She was speaking to more than 120
The media has been asked to step back from the frontline of reporting events in Soham, where the ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing. The village has become a focus for the nation’s news reporters, with police setting