Tory leader William Hague spoke of the importance of local newspapers when he visited the headquarters of NewsquestNorth-East in Darlington. He was making a pre-election visit to his local newspapers – The Northern Echo and The Darlington & Stockton Times.
Newsquest
- Head Office: 58 Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8DP
- Website: www.newsquest.co.uk
Owned by US-based publisher Gannett, Newsquest is one of the UK’s largest publishers of local and regional newspapers with more than 300 titles.
Its major UK publishing centres include York and Glasgow and it employs more than 8,000 staff.
A relatively young company, Newsquest was born in 1995 from Reed Regional Newspapers and has since acquired long-established publisher Westminster Press.
More information can be found on the company’s website at www.newsquest.co.uk.
What we have written about Newsquest
HTFP in the news
Page 4 of 4 The site claimed 60,000 page impressions – the currency of the internet -last week. Newsquest and Northcliffe plan to promote it in training centres and localnewspaper offices. They also want to promote it in Press Gazette
Youth newspaper for alternative Parliament
Award-winning youth newspaper projects by the Bolton Evening News are making history with the launch of a national publication for the United Kingdom Youth Parliament (UKYP). The BEN was approached to produce a youth newspaper, to be distributed nationally to
Bosom buddies in bra walk
A group of journalists from Newsquest South London will be walking thestreets of London in decorated Playtex Wonderbras to raise money for breastcancer research. Six women from the Guardian/Comet North Cheam office will be joining up to8,000 other women (and
'Overwhelming' support for jobs campaign
Newsquest can claim to have the ear of many in the corridors of power – if the recent lobbying of MPs about steel job losses is anything to go by. After Corus announced 6,000 job losses last month, Newsquest editors
Swift response to epidemic by North-East newspapers
Two newspapers are joining forces to explain to readers how foot and mouth disease is affecting their lives. The Northern Echo is linking with its sister paper The Darlington & Stockton Times to launch a Noticeboard service to help the
Record number to sit exams
A record number of Newsquest editorial trainees are to sit the NationalCertificate Examination in April. A total of 81 are due to sit the exam – 64 of those taking it for thefirst time. All are going on a refresher
New editor takes the helm of the News
Editor Stewart Gilbert has taken over at the Worcester Evening News after several successful years editing its sister papers The Hereford Times and Ludlow/Tenbury Wells Advertiser. During his years in charge at the Hereford Times, the circulation, readership and pagination
Moves for two editors
Two senior editorial appointments have been announced by Newsquest in the Midlands. Liz Griffin, currently editor of Evesham Journal Series and Admag, has been appointed editor, Hereford Times and Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertisers, in succession to Stewart Gilbert who
Page hits a hit at the Shuttle
The Shuttle Times and News website is proving a huge online success, averaging more than 1,000 page impressions a day. Thisiskidderminster.co.uk is part of Newsquest Media Group’s network of This Is sites – together named in the top 100 UK
Hive gets busier in Essex
A community web project is proving a runaway success in Essex – with more than 200 groups signing up. The Beehive is being run jointly by the Newsquest and Northcliffe newspaper groups. It is the only partnership of its kind
Future online is bright
Page 1 of 2 Regional newspapers are in a prime position to become the dominant news and information providers of the electronic publishing age – but they need to develop, innovate and move fast if they are to stay ahead
Wiltshire website goes from strength to strength
ThisIsWiltshire.co.uk is being developed to keep it growing bigger and better. The site had a complete makeover in May and is growing according to the needs of its readers, according to Newsquest Wiltshire’s digital media manager James Trudgian. He said
Echo helps charities get online
Charities and non-profit-making organisations are being offered the chance to set up websites for free thanks to the Northern Echo. The Newsquest-owned newspaper has launched CommuniGate which can be accessed through www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk Groups can create up to ten news and
Writers' websites take off
www.toowrite.com a website launched by the Derby Evening Telegraph in January 2000 has announced the £1,000 winner of its first non-fiction writing competition. More than 1,000 entries were received from people all over the UK and abroad writing about their
Focus on the digital revolution
More than 100 editors from Britain’s biggest regional newspaper publisher have been told that new media and the printed press can flourish side by side. Ian Aiken, Digital Media Managing Director for the Newsquest group, said the challenge to Newsquest