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
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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
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
Rookie reporter successfully challenges S39 order
Trainee recites legal argument from memory to overturn naming ban on only second trip to court
Chronicle libel case is settled
A libel action launched against the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle, by the chairwoman and managing director of a care home company, has been settled. Mark McArdle, his mother Helen McArdle and Helen McArdle Care Ltd raised the action against the
Chronicle wins right to name rapist
The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle has won the right to name a 15-year-old boy who has been jailed for life for raping a middle-aged woman. Court reporter Garry Willey successfully appealed for a Section 39 order not to be imposed
Cleared nursery nurses agree libel settlement with Chronicle
A libel action against the Newcastle Evening Chronicle has been settled out of court by two nursery nurses wrongly accused of child abuse in a council report.This is the full statement on the matter by Chronicle editor Paul Robertson. CHRISTOPHER
Gazette's Christmas wishes
Middlesbrough’s Evening Gazette has launched its Christmas Wish Appeal. It is asking readers to nominate deserving groups or individuals and tell the newspaper what it can do to make their festive dreams come true. Twelve lucky groups, or individuals, will
PM supports Business A Day campaign
Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed a campaign launched by the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette to create new jobs in the Tees Valley. The paper wants to help create a business a day in the area – a total of 365
Death sparks hard-hitting anti-drugs campaign from Chronicle
Graphic front page is used in bid to get others to break the habit
Chronicle acts after 300 ship workers are given notice
The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle has launched a campaign calling on the Government to act urgently to safeguard thousands of jobs on the Tyne. The newspaper has put out a rallying call to local MPs to put pressure on to
Special school saved from closure thanks to Chronicle
The Newcastle Evening Chronicle has helped save a world-renowned school for deaf and disabled children from closure. Newcastle’s Northern Counties School for the Deaf came under threat following a decline in the number of pupils, and a Government policy of
Chronicle and partners are doing the business
What began as a business each day for a year campaign is now hoping to undergo a transformation into a two businesses-a-day success. And it’s all down to the impressive accomplishment of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle ‘business-a-day campaign’ reaching the
Chronicle delegation to meet Blunkett over killer drivers
A delegation from the Evening Chronicle was due to travel to London today to demand tougher sentences for killer drivers. Representatives from the Evening Chronicle and its sister paper in Newcastle, The Journal, were to meet with Home Secretary David
Papers claim victory in killer drivers battle
The Birmingham Evening Mail is claiming a victory in its battle to jail drink and drug killer drivers for life. An amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill has been tabled to increase the maximum sentences for causing death by
30,000 back paper's joyriding proposal
More than 30,000 people have signed the Newcastle Evening Chronicle’s petition in support of its Justice for Rebecca campaign calling for a change in the law so that killer joyriders can be jailed for life. The newspaper launched the campaign