Headquarters of the Liverpool Echo and the Daily Post are in the middle of a major regeneration scheme in the city’s business district. The length of Old Hall Street is getting a facelift and the newspaper offices’ main entrance area
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Henderson to edit The Journal
Gerard Henderson, editor of The Gazette, Blackpool, has been named as the editor of The Journal, Newcastle. He will take up his post on July 3, succeeding Mark Dickinson, whose appointment as editor of the Liverpool Echo was announced in
MEN bids for seven titles
The Manchester Evening News dominates the shortlist for this year’s BT North West Press and Broadcast Awards. The paper is up against the Liverpol Echo and the Carlisle News & Star in the North West Daily Newspaper of the Year
News In Brief – from around the regions
PIKACHU FRENZY: Is there a regional newspaper in the land that hasn’t found an angle on the Pokemon card craze? “Schools bans card craze” has become commonplace. This week, the Hull Daily Mail revealed that two youngsters were threatened with
Former editor's new post
Michael Unger, former editor of the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Liverpool Echo, has been appointed as general manager of Jazz fm 100.4, the radio station’s Manchester-based north-west operation. Richard Wheatly, chief executive of Jazz fm,
Advertising their successes
A double-page spread in the Liverpool Echo spoke volumes about teamwork between editorial and advertising. Headlined It ad to be you, the special report by Paddy Sheehan pulled together five examples of how the top evening title had changes people’s
Trinity Mirror aims for the top
Trinity Mirror aims for top spot with £150m plan Trinity Mirror, Britain’s biggest newspaper publisher, is to spend £150m on developing its Internet business over the next three years. Sixteen regional web portals – all linked to an integrated national
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Best publisher organised event – weekly newspapersWinner: West Lothian Courier – Livingston F.C. Open DayHighly commended: Morecambe Visitor – The Night Before ChristmasCertificate of merit: Oxford Times Series – In Business Exhibition Best in-paper reader offer – daily/Sunday newspapersWinner: Evening
People in the News
New editors for Echo, Gazette as Journal loses top two Pastures new: Mark Dickinson (left) and Paul Robertson. Three big regional newspapers are set for new editors as Thomas’s Newcastle Journal prepares to lose its top two – both to
Sales figures show winners and losers
MORE than 50 regional daily newspapers lost sales in the second half of 1999, new figures show. But the message from the Newspaper Society was upbeat after data for 1,224 daily and weekly titles was published on the same day
Journal to lose its top two
New editors for Echo, Gazette as Journal loses top two Pastures new: Mark Dickinson (left) and Paul Robertson. Three big regional newspapers are set for new editors as The Journal, Newcastle, prepares to lose its top two. Editor Mark Dickinson
Together we can boost sales
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
The art of the sub-editor
We’ve been trawling the regional press once again for good and bad headlines and liked this one, from a Liverpool Echo story about bad weather delaying the construction of a giant marquee for a summer pop festival…. But these appealed
Teenage killer named after Echo's legal challenge pays off
Reporter argued that public has right to know name of car thief who killed
Echo wins right to name 12-year-old thug
The Liverpool Echo has won the right to name a 12-year-old boy who waged a 14-month campaign of crime against locals and workers in Bootle. Despite a submission from the boy’s solicitor, magistrates agreed that the paper should be allowed
Lords ruling gives green light for Echo exposé
The Liverpool Echo has won the right to reveal details of a nightclub company’s “major tax fraud”, after winning a landmark legal battle in the House of Lords. The club directors spent two years trying to ban coverage but Lord