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Newsquest Launches Weekly Title For Blackburn

Newsquest is launching a new weekly title for Blackburn The Post, which will be distributed to 10,000 homes, will be a weekly sister newspaper to the daily Lancashire Telegraph, which covers Blackburn and the wider East Lancashire community. Whereas the...

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US Ambassador to Hold Briefing For Newspaper Conference Members

Matthew Barzun will host a lunch for Newspaper Conference members at Winfield House later this month. The US Ambassador to the United Kingdom will address Westminster-based political editors writing for regional press titles in membership of the News Media Association. The...

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MP Launches Impassioned Defence of Local Press

Jacob Rees-Mogg has launched an impassioned defence of local newspapers warning of the threat to the industry posed by state regulation of the press.     Writing on his website this week, the MP for North East Somerset urged readers...

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Department for Education Runs Featurelink Campaign

Nearly 70 local newspaper titles are to run a Featurelink campaign for the Department for Education encouraging people to get into teaching. The campaign - which will see advertising and editorial appear in daily and weekly local press titles –...

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Johnston Press Launches Investigations Unit

Johnston Press has today launched a new investigations unit with a hard-hitting report revealing the truth behind Britain’s deadly road crimes and what the publisher describes as the scandal of lenient sentencing in the UK. Led by multi-award-winning Lancashire Evening...

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NMA Shortlisted For Public Affairs Awards

The News Media Association has been shortlisted for The Public Affairs Awards 2016 for the news media industry’s successful campaign against restrictions to the Freedom of Information Act. The NMA is one of six organisations shortlisted for the trade body...

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ABC: 20% Surge in National Newsbrands Digital Audiences

The official ABC figures for October 2016 show that the UK national newspaper market enjoyed a 20 per cent year-on-year uplift across digital platforms, according to analysis from Newsworks. In the month ahead of the US presidential election, while Brexit...

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