Posted by
Press Gazette
on 15 March 2011 at 10:53
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, press freedom
A Bucks Free Press reporter successfully challenged a decision to exclude him from a meeting that discussed a row between two mayors. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 25 February 2011 at 10:22
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers
Welsh politicians have criticised Metro newspaper for failing to cover major Welsh stories distributed in its local editions.
Cardiff Council’s deputy leader Neil McEvoy called on the paper to “stop selling Welsh sports fans short” after it failed to carry reports on Cardiff City and Swansea City’s matches this week and on the Welsh rugby team picked for an international in Italy this coming weekend. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 24 January 2011 at 10:26
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers
Free weekly paper the Birmingham Post Lite is back in print after a brief hiatus.
Press Gazette reported last week that the title, published by Trinity Mirror subsidiary BPM Media, suspended publication prior to Christmas.
Birmingham Post Lite’s decision to cease publication followed the withdrawal and closure of rival paper, The Birmingham Press, late last year.
However, the paper originally launched last April and distributed to 18,000 homes in the Solihull, Harborne and Sutton Coldfield areas of the city has now returned.
A BPM Media spokesperson said: “Having implemented a seasonal suspension to take account of lower property advertising revenues over the festive period, the Birmingham Post Lite will now return to publication this week.”
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 21 January 2011 at 10:48
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Free weekly the Bridlington Gazette and Herald is to publish its last issue next month to enable staff to concentrate on sister paid-for title, the Bridlington Free Press. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 13 January 2011 at 09:53
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Worthing Borough Council is to scrap its magazine after council leaders admitted they could no longer afford to publish the title. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 12 October 2010 at 10:40
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Press Gazette
on 22 September 2010 at 10:19
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Mobile, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Another day, another iPad launch. The London Evening Standard is this week launching the first of two planned free iPad apps to make its newspaper content accessible on the devise.
The first launch is for an app containing daily newspaper content and new unique editorial, MediaWeek reported. The app will enable readers to easily share content across Facebook and Twitter.
The Evening Standard has forged a partnership with British Airways to sponsored the app for its first two months.
The second app, which does not yet have a launch date, will contain content from the newspaper’s ES Magazine which comes free with the publication on Fridays. (more…)
Posted by
Alexandra Zeevalkink
on 20 September 2010 at 10:42
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Media Business, Newspapers
Five years after launch, London financial daily City AM has finally moved into profit, founder Jens Torpe has claimed.
And the free daily has said it is increasing distribution from just over 90,000 copies a day to 150,000 by increasing the spread of its railway station distribution points in the London commuter belt.
City AM chief executive Torpe told the Guardian: ”At 4pm on 17 August our bookings for this year reached the same amount as for all of 2009. Every booking we started taking from yesterday morning and for the rest of the year is an increase in revenue.”
Expansion plans to other cities in the UK, and internationally, have been shelved - Torpe said.
Posted by
Alexandra Zeevalkink
on 17 September 2010 at 10:24
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, awards
The Southern Daily Echo has collected ten nominations for this year’s EDF Energy London and South of England Regional Media Awards it was announced this morning.
The Southern Daily Echo, a Newsquest-owned title, has nominations in seven of the 18 categories that have been announced so far.
Nominees of two categories are yet to be released which are the TV Journalist of the Year and TV News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year.
Sister title, the Bournemouth Echo, has nine nominations and Johnston Press-owned Portsmouth daily The News, has received eight.
The winners of the awards, which are held in association with Holdthefrontpage, will be announced during a ceremony which takes place at Lingfield Park Racecourse in Surrey on Thursday 21 October.
Here’s the full shortlist: (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 14 June 2010 at 09:51
Tags: Free Newspapers, Media Business, National Newspapers, Newspapers
The Evening Standard is now believed to be around the break-even mark by some estimates, Peter Preston reports.
He wrote in his Observer column yesterday that running costs for the Standard now stand at £1.1m a week and that advertising income is at around the same level.
It follows the huge saving in distribution costs which followed the Standard going free in October.
The Lebedev-owned daily now circulates 600,000 copies a day by dumping them at distribution racks in and around London’s main transport termini each afternoon. There is now just one edition a day, the West End Final, many of the vendors have gone and there are now far fewer deliveries needed than when it was going to every newsagent in Greater London.
Standard MD Andrew Mullins told Press Gazette in October that savings from distribution and marketing cancelled out the £12.5m cover price income overnight when the paper went free.
According to the National Readership Survey, the Standard now has some 1.35m readers.
The Standard’s 600,000 daily distribution is no mean feat. Back in the days of the London free newspaper war, even with hundreds of merchandisers thelondonpaper could only manage to give away 500,000 copies a day. The Standard is flying out of the distribution racks with little need for merchandisers to shove it into people’s hands.
It looks like it could finally have found an economic model which secures its future.
Posted by
Nicole Canning
on 7 April 2010 at 15:54
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
The Grimsby Telegraph has relaunched its free weekly newspaper Life as the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Post with a new emphasis on local news. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 25 March 2010 at 10:09
Tags: Free Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Archant has launched a new free weekly title covering Stoke Newington in the London borough of Hackney.
The first edition of the Stoke Newington Gazette contained 16-pages of editorial and ads - there is also a website.
The publisher said the Gazette was its strongest performing new title in a range of new hand-distributed London launches in recent months.
Malcolm Starbrook, weeklies editor and editor of the East London Advertiser, said: “The Stoke Newington Gazette is a sister paper of our already successful weekly Hackney Gazette.
“But this new edition is designed to cater specifically for just one part of the borough.
“The Stoke Newington Gazette will be hand-delivered free to people returning home from the area’s main rail and bus connections using our dedicated and high-profile distribution team.”
The move by Archant isn’t dissimilar to that made by Tindle Newspapers earlier this month when it launched three free weekly papers in North London – but rather than hand-to-hand distribution those papers will be available from community pick-up points, including schools, shops, libraries and supermarkets.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 5 February 2010 at 10:39
Tags: Free Newspapers
The London Weekly hit the streets today. Press Gazette is yet to lay its hands on a copy - but here’s a quick first look courtesty of Jennifer Whitehead.
This pic shows the paper hasn’t managed to spell Phil Tufnell’s name correctly and has missed a few hyphens from its strapline.
What it contains, well, it all remains a bit of a mystery and only adds to our speculation earlier this week that the paper might be nothing more than a mirage. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 3 February 2010 at 12:16
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, People
Media journalists have spent a lot of time investigating a new London newspaper launch which is beginning to look like a mirage - The London Weekly.
Press Gazette too has been searching in vain for evidence that this project is for real. Frankly we’re reluctant to spend much more of our precious time investigating it, but here’s a quick update on where we are two days before it is due to hit the streets with a circulation of 250,000 copies.
There is still no sign of an office where its claimed 50-strong editorial staff are based, and no editorial telephone numbers.
The advertising telephone number now has a recorded message stating that this number is “currently inactive”.
No-one has returned the messages we left when the number was taking messages.
And no-one has answered Press Gazette’s questions, sent via email to marketing person Paul Morris, which included: How many journalists are you employing? Do you have a dummy edition we could see? Where will you be distributed? What’s your business plan?
Rival publishers would have expected to have heard whispers about circulation, distribution and printing plans by now but have heard nothing. They are not taking The London Weekly seriously at all.
The Guardian has tracked down one of the many “staff” listed on the paper’s website: Simon Glazin, who says he submitted some work but hasn’t been paid and was surprised to have been listed on the staff.
Journalism.co.uk has found out that there is a new editor, Alan Mills, and has spoken to a human being on the telephone who is involved in the project - so well done them! Head of display Angus Auden assures them it is not a “wind up” and says: “There are a lot of people in offices all over the place.”
It would take the KGB investigative skills of Alexander Lebedev to get to the bottom of this one. Something tells me he isn’t too concerned about it.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 26 January 2010 at 11:23
Tags: Free Newspapers, Media Business, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
London councils have pointed out that Trinity Mirror, whose chief executive has openly criticised council-run newspapers, prints seven of them in the capital. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 11 January 2010 at 10:00
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
The British library’s newspaper archive at Colindale is set to close by 2012, to be replaced by a digital reading room in St Pancras.
The comprehensive archive of national newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines will be preserved at a new state of the art storage facility in Boston Spa, Yorkshire - The Guardian reports.
Some 750m newspapers going back 300 years and taking up 50km of shelf space are housed at Colindale.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 23 December 2009 at 08:44
Tags: Free Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
View From Publishing, the series of free weeklies in Somerset and Devon launched by journalist Philip Evans five years ago, has signalled that it could close unless a buyer can be found.
The group employs 25 staff, seven of whom are journalists - holdthefrontpage reports. It has filed its intention to go into administration.
Earlier this week, Tindle Newspapers revealed that it had bought the monthly View From Blackdown Hills title.
According to some estimates up to 100 newspapers have closed as a result of the current econonmic downturn. The vast majority of these have been free weekly or monthly local newspapers.
Posted by
Emma Day
on 18 December 2009 at 12:40
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, National Newspapers, National Union of Journalists, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
Local newspapers risk being “driven out of business” by the rise of council funded publications, the Conservative shadow local government secretary has told Publicservice.co.uk.
Councils should be required to review their own publications to check they are not “going beyond their remit,” said Caroline Spelman, adding: “At one time, literature from the town hall was confined to updates about bin collections over Christmas or changes to library opening times – now they have evolved into fully fledged newspapers.”
Local Government Association chief executive John Ransford said that “local newspapers have abandoned reporting of local political situations”, but added: “It’s important that there is a vibrant local media and so I think it is important that councils have talks with the local press to see if arrangements can be reached.”
An Early Day Motion, proposed by Paul Burstow MP on 9 December, calls on the Competition Commission and Audit Commission to review the impact of the growth of local authority funded-newspapers on the local media market and free speech.
So far 41 MPs have signed the motion, which also outlines concern over the closure of 100 local newspapers across the UK in 2009, saying: “local newspapers have a long track record of serving and being at the heart of their communities, and are widely acknowledged as the most trusted of all media.”
This follows an recently proposed investigation by the NUJ to see how councils could fund struggling regional newspapers.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 16 December 2009 at 08:45
Tags: Free Newspapers, Media Business, New Media, Online, awards
The London business freesheet, City AM has struck a deal with online financial services company, Interactive Investor. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 2 December 2009 at 11:06
Tags: Free Newspapers, National Newspapers, Newspapers
Stefano Hatfield, former editor of the now defunct thelondonpaper, has been appointed to a new role with The Times. (more…)
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