The Independent Publishers’ Forum of the Newspaper Society, which meets four times a year to discuss issues affecting such companies, has been elected for the next three years. The Forum now comprises: John Dickinson (chairman, Garnett Dickinson Publishing), Robin Freeman
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New editor for Lincolnshire weekly
Staff at the Market Rasen Mail have welcomed a new editor with the appointment of Jason Hippisley. Previously a reporter on the Lincolnshire Echo, he succeeds Charles Ladbrook, who now edits the Mail’s sister paper, the Louth Leader. Jason, (30),
Newspaper executive dies days before retirement
Kent Messenger Group’s production director David Dalton has died at the age of 61 following a brave battle with cancer. He was due to retire as an executive director in a few days time, at the end of the year.
Tributes paid to former Evening Press journalist
Former York Evening Press journalist Vivian Brooks has died, aged 79. She had spent 27 years with the Evening Press, and has been remembered by former colleagues as a “friendly, eccentric and highly-skilled journalist”. Her career in journalism began in
Media Lawyer founding editor Welsh to step down
Ex-newspaper editor says he is ready for a holiday – but is not planning to retire
Papers win legal battle to report on Internet sex case
Reporting ban is overturned five months after two men were jailed
Campaign target to save church is reached
A campaign by the Daventry Express to raise £50,000 to save a church has hit its target after just 14 months. Pews in Holy Cross Church in Daventry, have been weakened by dry rot and death watch beetle, and it
Downward trend continues for regional newspapers
Update on the latest ABC circulation figures