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...

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...

Marketing Week columnist Mark Ritson has written a withering critique of Facebook’s handling of the recent measurement errors, pointing out that the incorrect data could have influenced advertisers’ initial decision to buy ad space with the social media giant. In...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

News media publishers which invest in quality journalism are the antidote to the “fake news” distributed on digital platforms such as Google and Facebook which critics claim could have influenced the outcome of the US presidential election. Campaign reported this...

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...