Newsquest has announced the launch of a new online public notices platform that enables the public to be better informed about local decisions. The new responsive website delivers added value to local councils by extending the reach of their statutory...

The Queen has led the tributes to The Scotsman as the newspaper celebrates its bicentenary. In a letter to Ian Stewart, editorial director of The Scotsman, the Queen wrote: “I was most interested to learn that The Scotsman is today...

Local Media Works chairman Craig Nayman, Archant chief commercial officer, has highlighted the power of local media for advertisers in the cluttered media landscape. In a piece for ExchangeWire this week, Mr Nayman argues that the deep and trusted relationship...

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...