Former Western Mail editor Neil Fowler is launching his own PR business: Neil Fowler Communications. The new business will build on Neil’s knowledge of Wales and of the British media industry, utilizing his wide range of contacts and his experience
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New role reunites Neil with former editor
Sunday Herald picture editor Neil Bennett is to be reunited with his former editor when he joins the Western Mail in December. Neil, (31), is to join the paper in the newly created role of deputy editor and his appointment
New Star editor named
Andy Pearson has been named as the new editor of the Llanelli Star. Currently features editor at the South Wales Evening Post, Andy (pictured) will take over from Robert Lloyd who leaves the paper at the end of October to
Graf steps down at Trinity Mirror
Philip Graf, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, has announced his resignation. He will step down next summer, allowing time for the group to appoint his successor. Philip was appointed chief executive of the group in September 1999 following the merger
New regional editor is named by Trinity Mirror
A series of key editorial and training appointments – including a new editor for a Sunday regional – has been announced by Trinity Mirror. At Trinity Mirror Regionals’ Cardiff centre, Tim Gordon (right) has been promoted to editor of Wales
Editorship for Peter
Former regional newspaper reporter Peter Roberts has been appointed editor of the Farmers’ Union of Wales’s monthly newspaper Welsh Farmer. Peter, (53), who is the union’s press officer, will now also edit the paper, which was relaunched in a new
Strike ballots at more papers
Journalists could go on strike at Wales’s biggest newspaper in a bid to win union recognition for the National Union of Journalists. Union members are balloting after three years of failed efforts to agree a recognition deal with management at
New editor for Western Mail
The Western Mail is to get a new editor. Neil Fowler, editor for the past eight years, will leave the paper in September. He will be succeeded by Alun Edmunds, who currently edits Wales on Sunday. Neil, (46), joined The
Hundreds of mourners turn out for Michael
More than 400 hundred mourners turned out to pay their last respects at the funeral of Welsh journalist Michael Boon. Michael, who was 67, died from cancer. He had been a journalist for 50 years and received an MBE for
Death of former Welsh journalist
Former Welsh journalist Peter Jones has died. He had been suffering from cancer. Mr Jones, (66), died in his sleep at his home in Sketty in Swansea, last Sunday. He began his journalism career aged 15 when he joined the
Trinity papers press ahead
The Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough has been given planning permission to extend its Borough Road premises to allow a new printing press to be installed. The new press will significantly increase colour capacity and could be operational by as early
How to gain and retain readers
New ways to gain and retain readers will be discussed by major players in the regional press meet in Bristol later this month. Sales initiatives, home delivery, re-branding, promotions and new pricing strategies are on the agenda of the Newspaper
New printing press for Trinity Mirror
A new printing press for Trinity Mirror’s Welsh papers will be operational in Cardiff by the end of the year. The new press will be capable of running out 70,000 copies per hour, and will be housed in a new
College role for former Lancs Evening Telegraph editor
Former Lancashire Evening Telegraph editor Peter Butterfield has taken on a new role at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Peter retired from the East Lancashire-based daily paper on his 57th birthday in May last year. But he’s about to
Death of journalist-turned-barrister
A journalist-turned-barrister who worked at several local papers and moved on to the Central Office of Information has died at his Cardiff home. Llywelyn John Evans, known as Lyn, had worked at the Western Mail and South Wales Echo during
Mail's Westminster man has died
A political writer well-known in the corridors of Westminster has died, aged 86. David Rosser was the political editor of the Western Mail for almost 35 years. He worked at weekly and evening newspapers in his home town of Llanelli,