The Newspaper Society has held a meeting with the Sainsbury’s News and Magazines division to discuss how the Society could help the supermarket chain increase its sales of regional and local newspapers.The Society’s Newspaper Sales Action Team is now hoping
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The Government is deciding whether newspapers should bear the costs of future investigations if it decides to intervene in newspaper or cross-media transactions.The Trade and Industry secretary could call in deals for a closer look on public interest grounds, and
New face on regionals' parliamentary beat
Caroline Wheeler has been appointed the Northcliffe parliamentary correspondent. She takes up her duties from Monday September 6, and will serve the daily titles in Humberside and Lincolnshire, as well as the South Wales Evening Post, succeeding Zoe Hughes who
Journal appoints new deputy editor
Richard Best is the new deputy editor of the North Devon Journal. In a varied career he has work on local newspapers in the UK and edited a glossy leisure magazine in Dubai before becoming a senior editor at the
New editor set to take over at the Telegraph
Rebecca Stephens is to become the new editor of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Currently deputy editor of the Basildon/Southend Evening Echo, Rebecca (pictured) will join the Evening Telegraph on February 2. She will also be responsible for the weekly Peterborough
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The Royal Mail is planning to withdraw its newspaper registration service, which dates back to the mid-1800s and allows publishers to send postal subscriptions by first-class delivery at a second-class rate. Royal Mail has confirmed that the current scheme will
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A couple exposed by the Newcastle Evening Chronicle for ripping-off hard up families across Britain have been ordered to pay back £36,000.The pair, who admitted making at least £250,000 in a mail order scam, were caught after a Chronicle reporter
News values travel well, says globetrotting editor
Production editor Jayne Thomas has returned from a study trip across the Atlantic with an insight into the way North American newspapers treat the news. Jayne, who works at the Neath and Port Talbot Courier, visited a clutch of newspapers
Reporter turns litter lout to test public opinion
When Swansea Council revealed plans to hand out £25 fines to anyone caught dropping rubbish, South Wales Evening Post reporter Richard Auty decided to play litter lout for the day. Richard took to the streets of Swansea to see how
Death of former Post chief
A former managing director of the South Wales Evening Post has died following a battle with cancer. Garry Rouse, who retired in 1993, had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year. He started work with the company in 1985
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Scotsman.com has been nominated for a brace of European online journalism awards.Its coverage of the Scottish election is in the running for Best Overall Journalism Service at the NetMedia Awards – a title Holdthefrontpage won last year – and Stewart
Municipal honour as reporter becomes mayoress
A reporter from South Wales has embarked on an assignment with a difference – she’s going to be the lady mayoress of Swansea for a year. Susan Bailey’s husband Lawrence, who is leader of the city and county of Swansea,
Editor to retire after 20 years
Alan Osborn, editor of the Carmarthen Journal for the past 20 years, is to retire. The 61-year-old has spent his entire career with the Northcliffe group, joining the South Wales Evening Post as a copy boy in 1956. Later he
Editor's public interest pledge in row over leaked report
The editor of the South Wales Evening Post has pledged to stand up for the public’s right to know. Spencer Feeney spoke out after a threat that he would be reported to the Press Complaints commission for revealing details of
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The Prince of Wales has commended The Blackpool Gazette for helping raise funds for the new £2.5m cancer unit at Blackpool’s Victoria Hospital. Speaking at a special reception held in Fulwood, Prince Charles urged the public to keep up the
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The best in British and international journalism will be honoured this month at The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2002 – with competition especially fierce among a record-breaking number of nominations.The eight journalistic categories, which have attracted 180 entries, are: