Tuesday, October 31, 2006

No cuts at Express Scotland

Scottish Daily Express Safe from Job Cuts Plan

Weekend reports of job cuts being proposed at the Daily Express newspaper may have briefly worried staff and casuals at its Scottish edition, but they had no need to fear: no Scottish jobs are to go north of the border.

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Express editorial cuts could see Travel and City close

The Daily Express City desk is to be out-sourced to Press Association as part of a round of cutbacks that will see at least 10 per cent of journalists go across the Sunday and Daily Express and The Star titles.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Award for Scotsman

Major industry award win for Scotsman

THE Scotsman has been named as Regional Financial Newspaper of the year in the prestigious Association of British Insurers (ABI) Financial Media awards for 2006.

Judges praised it for providing "a good balance between industry and personal finance issues" at the event attended by 400 representatives from the financial services industry in London's Dorchester Hotel.

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Jack's back...

Dead reckoning

Deadline, the BBC's six-part Scottish press documentary based on former Herald editor Harry Reid's book, has begun in explosive fashion – and not just on-screen. It carried the story of how Jack Irvine, then of The Scottish Sun, replied to a two-page lawyer's letter that arrived by fax by scrawling "**** off, yours Jack" on it and faxing it back.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Joan returns to the Sunday Times

Joan McAlpine - the Herald deputy editor until six months ago - is returning to her old stomping ground, at Sunday Times Scotland.

On Monday, she begins as assistant editor (features), her main responsibility being to edit the paper’s Ecosse section. She joined The Herald from Sunday Times Scotland, where she had been editor.

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Evening News gets bigger

Another New Section for Edinburgh Evening News

Today sees the launch of yet another new section at the Edinburgh Evening News, hot on the heels of a new going-out listing of a few weeks ago.

‘Life & Style’ is to cover mainly health, fashion, food and fitness, and follows in the footsteps of The Guide.

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Deadline - BBC1 study of the newspaper industry

It’s journalism, but not as we know it

Deadline began its six-part study of Scotland's post-war newspaper industry by focusing on skirmishes between competitors at the tabloid end of the daily chip-wrappings market.

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Deadline Captures 12 per cent Audience Share

Farmers more popular than journalists? Well, the audience for Deadline, the history of the Scottish press, broadcast on BBC Scotland on Tuesday evening, was an average 175,000, in other words 12 per cent of the TV-viewing audience at the time.

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Jack Irvine represents Gloag's in court

Sheriff visits Gloag's land in access row

The court then heard from Jack Irvine, the chairman of Media House, a public relations firm that represents Mrs Gloag.

Mr Irvine, 57, an ex-editor of the Scottish Sun and former managing director of News International in Scotland, said his client had been the victim of "gross intrusion" that had been "really quite disgusting". He told the court: "It's really quite extraordinary the amount of attention she gets, the volume of inquiries by media and the interest in her private life.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Technical problem at Newsquest ballot

Strike ballot at Glasgow Herald repeated due to 'technical problem'

NUJ members at The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, Glasgow, are to be balloted for a second time, due to a technical problem, on whether to take industrial action over changes to their pay date.

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Scottish Press - tough market?

Tales of the far-fetched and the highly fanciful

DEADLINE: The Story of The Scottish Press was fond of flinging comparative impressions and statistics at us. "Ours is the fifth toughest newspaper market in Europe." It was like being in the changing room after a circuit class at the gym, where the men say things like "that was a really hard work-out tonight" to celebrate the brute force of their masculinity.

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Where the Heart is...

Kiddie to Return Home Where the Hearts Are

A former Edinburgh Evening News journalist, who specialised in the reporting of Hearts football club, is returning to Scotland after a year in the USA - to almost pick up from where he left off.
But Paul Kiddie is not returning to rejoin the Edinburgh Evening News; instead, he is to run a bi-monthly, 84-page magazine being published by Hearts themselves.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Newsquest embraces multimedia

The regional newspaper publisher Newsquest has converted all 14 of its newsrooms into multimedia centres that produce video content for its websites.
Newsquest owns a string of regional newspapers including the Glasgow Herald, the Oxford Mail and the Colchester Gazette. Last month the newsrooms produced video clips that were downloaded 45,000 times.

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Journalist runner up in award...

Sunday Herald Hack Recognised in Campaigning Award

Congratulations to the Sunday Herald’s Liam McDougall, who has finished as a runner-up in a competition recognising the best in UK campaigning and investigative journalism.

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Deerin Destined for Sunday Telegraph

Reported in yesterday’s MediaGuardian: Scotland on Sunday’s Chris Deerin is heading for the Sunday Telegraph, to join the ‘Tartan Raj’ there.

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Associated buys into Dubai freesheet

Associated Newspapers has invested £3.9 million in a Dubai-based company involved with a free newspaper operation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Associated has taken a 60 per cent stake in Catchpole Communications FXZ LLC and has an option to increase its investment over the next three years.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Harry Reid's new book


Former Herald editor publishes personal account of the Scottish press

An insider's look at the past 50 years in Scottish newspapers has been published in a new book by Harry Reid, former editor of The Herald.

DEADLINE: The Story of the Scottish Press is a personal account of Harry's time in newspapers, and looks back at some of the biggest scoops and rivalries during that time.

It also examines how the press dealt with the great pillars of Scottish identity – religion, education and law – as well as politics.

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Scottish Times edition from Euro Central?

News International considers full Scottish edition of Times

WILL The Times launch a full Scottish edition next year? That is the talk of the steamie as its owner, News International (NI), gears up to move to new printing facilities at Eurocentral near Glasgow next spring.
The rumour mill went into overdrive last week as former Herald editor Harry Reid hinted heavily in his new book, Deadline: The Story Of The Scottish Press, that The Scottish Times was on its way.

With The Scotsman, The Herald and the more regionally focused Courier and Press And Journal all fighting in declining markets, this prospect will make proprietors shudder .

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Press Gazette for sale?

Press Gazette's Freud to reconsider shareholder position

Press Gazette could be put up for sale as key shareholder, PR guru Matthew Freud, reassesses his stake in the title because of a lack of support for one of the its main revenue generators, the British Press Awards.

It is understood that Freud has become frustrated by Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers and The Telegraph Group's decision to boycott last year's awards ceremony, after claiming that co-owners Freud and Piers Morgan, were "inappropriate administrators".

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Herald and Times to hold another ballot

NUJ Members to be Balloted Again

The National Union of Journalists, having conducted one ballot of its members at The Herald group of newspapers, such as The Herald and Sunday Herald, is to conduct a second, following a breakdown in talks yesterday with management.
The union had hoped the talks would result in management agreeing to abandon plans to shift the date staff are paid. But despite the ballot returning a 93.8 per cent vote in favour of some form of action, such as a work to rule, against the date shift (with 86.5 per cent in favour of strike action), management were seemingly not prepared to budge.

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Station deal for News International

News International bags Network Rail deal

Publisher News International has won the right to distribute thelondonpaper from within 10 mainline railway stations across London, beating arch-rival Associated Newspapers to clinch a deal with Network Rail. Around one million people pass through the termini every afternoon, when the free newspaper will be available.

Every weekday from 3pm thelondonpaper will be able to commandeer the distribution boxes used by Associated Newspapers' Metro newspaper in the mornings. Associated retains the right to distribute the Metro at Network Rail managed stations in the morning peak. A separate tender process is currently underway to decide which company can distribute newspapers in Metro's London Underground racks. A decision is expected by the end of this year.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Trinity Mirror cut more jobs at People

Fourteen journalists to go at The People

Fourteen editorial staff at The People are being made redundant as the Trinity Mirror-owned Sunday title continues to lose sales at a rapid rate.

Job cuts are being made across the main paper and on its TV magazine Take It Easy.

Most of the jobs to go are journalists with “one or two” expected to be administrative positions.

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Freedom of information win

FoI Victory for Hamilton Newspaper

A Freedom of Information battle between one of Scotland’s best-known local newspapers and the police has resulted in victory for the newspaper.
The Hamilton Advertiser has won a year-long fight with Strathclyde Police over information concerning sex offenders in the region it serves.

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Profits up on job losses

Good news for Trinity Mirror as local newspaper profits rise

Trinity Mirror's stable of more than 40 Scottish local newspapers overcame tough trading in the industry to record a sharp increase in profits last year.

The group's Scottish and Universal Newspapers division owns titles including the Paisley Daily Express, the Ayrshire Post and the Dumfries and Galloway Standard.

Accounts show that S&UN reduced its overheads by cutting staffing levels from 422 to 374, which lowered salary costs from £10.2m to £9.4m.

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Newsquest award

Newsquest Glasgow wins top advertising award

Newsquest's Glasgow publishing centre has won the Advertising Publishing Centre of the Year 2006 award at the regional press advertising and digital media awards in Leeds.
The centre's three titles, The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, each won awards, were highly commended in several categories, and picked up a number of certificates of merit.

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London - another free newspaper

Free newspaper launched for London Arabs

A weekly newspaper for London’s Arab community is the latest title to join the capital’s increasingly crowded free newspaper market.

Some 30,000 copies of Local Arabia will be distributed every Monday morning targeted at a British Arab community its backers estimate at one million people.

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Evening Times cools down

Peace Breaks out at Evening Times

Peace has broken out at the Evening Times over plans that staff absorb subbing and design duties at sister title, the West End Mail.
Last week, a meeting of the National Union of Journalists’ chapel at the paper submitted a grievance, following a demand by editor, Donald Martin, that the extra work be taken on - partly because the editor of the West End Mail is off, long-term, sick.

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Scottish web winners

Scottish Titles Sweep the Board at Society Ceremony

The website of The Scotsman newspaper has been chosen as the best daily newspaper website in the UK, with the publisher’s rivals in the west, Newsquest - behind The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times - not to be outdone in the prizes being handed out by the Newspaper Society at its advertising and digital media awards ceremony.

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Sun shines in Scotland

Sun Stretches Lead in Dailies Sales Race

A gap of almost 25,000 copies now divides the Scottish Sun from the Daily Record in the race to be Scotland’s best-selling daily newspaper, the divide ever widening despite the Record recently launching an evening edition for Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Battle of the shrinking giants

The redtops' black September

September, the prime month for circulation churn and change, comes with white knuckles and white faces attached. Take the three big questions of 2006 - how goes the London freesheet war/the redtop tabloid decline/the top-end tabloid prize fight? - and you begin to get answers from the latest ABC returns that put facts in place of propaganda.
Fact one is that the Evening Standard's London Lite free paper distributed a certified 359,000 copies a day, not far short of its 400,000 target, while thelondonpaper, from Wapping, dished out 327,000 (and started gathering steam). The battle of the frees was fully joined; both sides are close to target. And this scrap won't be won on physical distribution now. It will be advertising take, accreted over many more months, that decides. Nevertheless, there may be one loser already.

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Friday, October 13, 2006

Guardian circulation bucks trend

The Guardian surges in paid-for newspaper market

The Guardian notched up a massive 7.26% increase in circulation to 389,844 copies in September's monthly ABC figures, as its nature wallcharts proved the cream of the month's bumper crop of giveaways.

The paper, which a year ago finally followed its rival The Independent in downsizing format, went big on promotions with two weeks of nature wallcharts and a DVD of 'Lord of the Flies'.

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Latest circulation figures

Red-tops fail to bounce back after holiday break

Every red-top newspaper recorded a month-on-month and year-on-year fall last month, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Overall, the daily tabloids sold an average of 6,079,621 copies a day in September, a worrying fall of 1.12% on the holiday month of August and down 4.39% on September 2005, according to the sales figures for the five weeks from August 28 until October 2.

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London Lite circulation rise

National ABCs - Standard survives and London Lite wins freebie battle

Sales of the Evening Standard dropped 11.7 per cent year-on-year in September to 289,254.

Such a drop would not normally be welcomed – but Standard executives have interpreted it as a victory following the launch of the two new London free newspapers: London Lite and thelondonpaper, at the beginning of September.

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Planet Hearts new signing

Club Newspaper Signs up Owner as Columnist

An independent weekly newspaper devoted to football club, Heart of Midlothian, has pulled off its biggest coup to date since being launched six months ago.
Planet Hearts has signed up the club’s majority shareholder, Vladimir Romanov, to do a regular column for the tabloid.

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This week's newspaper gossip

Malcolm Speed, Stuart Nicol, Iain King, Tommy Sheridan, Fiona MaGuire and Bob Bird...

A monumental blunder of epic proportions. That’s what people are calling Trinity Mirror’s allowing managing editor Malcolm Speed to retire. The veteran Daily Record man is off to the Scottish Sun in a hilarious development in the battle between the rival tabloids....

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Trinity Mirror review

The vultures gather as Mirror ponders strategy review

THE strategy review at Trinity Mirror has reached interim conclusions but sources close to the company say no decision has been made about breaking up the group until "all the bits of the jigsaw are in place".

Another City source said a number of parties have registered interest with advisers for different parts of the business.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

S&UN job loses

Features editor loses job at Scottish & Universal Newspapers

A long-standing journalist working for Trinity Mirror's Scottish and Universal Newspapers has been made redundant due to the downturn in advertising.

Eileen McAudley, who was group features editor, leaves the company after 18 years.

A digital content editor will also be made redundant, along with eight other members of staff, mainly in the administration department.

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Trinity Mirror to relaunch all web sites

Trinity Mirror to re-launch all regional and local newspaper websites

Trinity Mirror will start to re-launch all its regional and local newspaper websites by the end of the year to refocus on interactive elements.

The re-launch will start with the Liverpool Echo, before expanding across all its 240 other titles - some of which will be going online for the first time.

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Sun anger over Exclusive interview

Scottish Sun editor’s anger over murder exclusive

Scottish Sun editor David Dinsmore was fuming after lawyers warned journalists away from contacting the family of a murdered girl — the same day they gave an exclusive interview to rival paper the Daily Record.

The interview followed the charging of a man for the murder of Polish student Angelika Kluk.

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More Record cut backs

Posts to Go in Record Restructure

Sweeping changes to the structure of departments such as circulation and finance has led to a net three posts being dissolved - comprising five posts going and two being created - at the Daily Record.
With editorial redundancies from last year still fresh in the memory of staff, the only immediate departure is that of Kirstin Morrison, who is taking voluntary redundancy as director of marketing. The other posts are now the subject of consultation and efforts to re-deploy the people affected.

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Malcolm in the middle

Speed Moves Swiftly from Record to Rival

No sooner has he retired as managing editor of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, but Malcolm Speed has popped up at arch rivals, the Scottish Sun. After 41 years with the Record, where his duties, latterly, included legal issues, Speed has accepted a position as editorial consultant, with his appointment being hailed by his new employers as the capture of a “newspaper legend”.

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Kelvin speaks...

Kelvin MacKenzie: Old Mac opens up

Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie says Janet Street-Porter would need to pay £4.7million to join him in a night of passion and that if he had one “bucket of shit” left, he would pour it over fellow ex-Sun editor David Yelland,

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Sportman's failure

Methven on The Sportsman's failure

Former editor-in-chief of The Sportsman Charlie Methven has told Press Gazette of his sadness that the paper has gone out of business just days after breaking even for the first time.

And he said he believes it would "definitely" have had a long-term profitable future if the millionaire businessmen behind it had been willing to give it more time.

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Strike threat update



Telegraph strike threat over Victoria move

Will Lewis's first challenge as editor of the Daily Telegraph will be a possible strike which could see 250 journalists walk out.

This week, the NUJ sent ballot papers to ask members whether they wanted to strike in protest at 54 compulsory redundancies and drastic changes to working patterns prompted by the move from Canary Wharf to Victoria.

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Monday, October 09, 2006

New editor at Telegraph

Lewis appointed Telegraph editor

Will Lewis was appointed editor of the Daily Telegraph today, taking over from acting editor John Bryant.
The appointment caps a meteoric rise for Lewis, 37, who was only recently appointed managing director editorial as he supervised the company's move to multimedia premises in Victoria.

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Journalist murder outrage


The International Federation of Journalists has described the murder in Moscow of Anna Politkovskaya as a "shocking outrage that will stun journalists across the world."

The IFJ says the killing reflects a state of lawlessness that is threatening to overwhelm Russian journalism. It has called on the government of President Vladimir Putin to act immediately to bring the killers to justice.

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Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil: His world just isn't big enough

Andrew Neil has been running Sunday newspapers for the better part of the last quarter-century - but not yesterday. There was no Sunday newspaper on sale bearing the Neil imprint. The Business, that ailing, loss-making pink broadsheet, formerly known as The Sunday Business, whose death was foretold more often than Fidel Castro's, passed away peacefully on 1 October. In its place there will arise a new, serious, 72-page, trivia-free glossy magazine, also called The Business, on sale this Thursday.

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Cancelled - Guest speaker at NUJ Edinburgh

‘Secret Society’ Journalist to be Guest Speaker

One of the UK’s best-known investigative journalists is to be the guest speaker at a meeting being hosted by one of Scotland’s National Union of Journalists branches.
Duncan Campbell is to speak at Monday’s monthly meeting of the Edinburgh Freelance branch of the NUJ.

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Cancelled....

Campbell Forced to Cancel

But standing in for investigative journalist, Duncan Campbell, is Udo Seiwert-Fauti, based in Scotland but working mainly for the German media. He promises to show where freelancers could earn some Euros, while offering some provocative comments on the standard of EU coverage in Scotland.

Warning for papers

Papers Warned off Kluk

Various Scottish newspapers on Friday received an “urgent” letter from lawyers representing the parents of the murdered Polish student, Angelika Kluk - whose body was found in a Glasgow church.
Please, requested the lawyers, the girl’s parents have been pestered by both the Scottish and Polish press and would it be possible to respect the couple’s wish for privacy in their time of grief?

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Guardian back down

Guardian backs down on competition 'rights-grab' after NUJ intervene

After pressure from the NUJ, and following discussions with co-sponsor Canon, The Guardian has finally agreed to drop a ‘rights-grabbing’ clause from the terms of a weekly photography competition in its Weekend Magazine.

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Fifth free newspaper in Denmark

In Denmark, a fifth free newspaper hits the streets

The fifth free newspaper aimed at Danish readers hit the streets on Friday even though a glitch cut its planned print run by half.
Nyhedsavisen was handed out at key traffic points and distributed directly to homes in Denmark's major cities.
Nyhedsavisen (The News Daily) had a planned circulation of 500,000 but half of them — intended for readers in the Danish capital — failed to be printed because of a technical problem. A smaller number of copies were handed out in Copenhagen while distribution went as planned in Aarhus and Odense, Denmark's second and third largest cities.

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Newspaper 'monkeys' - Hearts boss

Hearts owner calls newspaper journalists 'monkeys' in bizarre web post

Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov described reporters from a newspaper as having "both the habits and instincts of monkeys."
The Lithuanian businessman aimed his comments on the club's Web site at the Scottish edition of British daily The Sun, which he has said is biased toward Glasgow teams Celtic and Rangers.
The open letter was headed by a photograph of a chimpanzee wearing a Sun Sport T-shirt sitting at a computer and holding a pen, with the caption: "May God save Hearts and me from a bitter tongue and wicked pen."

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Multimedia potential of publishers

The daily download

Newspaper publishing giants are waking up to multimedia's potential. Content anytime, anyplace, anywhere is the name of the game, as Gareth Jones discovers

The newspaper industry is undergoing a radical transformation. Readers are turning to the web and mobiles for their daily headlines, meaning that, to avoid going the same way as yesterday's front pages, publishers are being forced to rethink the way they do business.

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Friday, October 06, 2006

Strike at Newsquest?

Herald and Times journalists could strike over Newsquest pay date change

NUJ members working for The Herald and Evening Times in Glasgow are to ballot for strike action over a change in their pay dates.

Newsquest Strathclyde pland to begin paying its staff six days later than usual - on the 26th of each month. The company says the move is purely being done for administration reasons.

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Jack and the Mail

Clype - The New Column with More Spite than Spike

Clype hears that executives at the Scottish Daily Mail were rolling about with laughter this week after reading the First Minister's comments about their organ.
Jack McConnell revealed that the Mail was his least favourite newspaper and rather unwisely admitted that he had been terribly wound up by their "cruel" news piece about his trip to the Ryder Cup in Ireland.

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Trinity Mirror shed more staff

Local Newspaper Group Shed More Staff

A restructuring at local newspaper group, Scottish and Universal Newspapers, has resulted in the redundancy of one of its longest-serving journalists.
As part of ten redundancies to have been announced - mostly in administration - group features editor, Eileen McAuley, has left after 18 years with the group, which is owned by Daily Record and Sunday Mail publishers, Trinity Mirror.

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Sportsman shuts shop


The Sportsman shuts its doors as money runs out

The Sportsman, the troubled daily betting newspaper, has closed after just seven months following a breakdown in discussions about refinancing the title.

The title, which went into administration in July, was seeking a £3m-£4m cash injection to ensure it saw out its first year, but the title's closure was confirmed after a shareholder's meeting yesterday afternoon, with chairman Jeremy Deedes and the staff informed soon afterwards.

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Tommy v Rupert

Tommy Sheridan: Murdoch's new offensive

THE NEWS of the World (NoW), which suffered a sensational defeat at the hands of Tommy Sheridan in his defamation case against them in August, has unleashed a massive new offensive against him.

On 1 October, NoW claimed to have bought a video tape from a member of the SSP and the United Left faction, which is the de facto leadership of the SSP. The tape for which the NoW paid a reported £20,000, the NoW claims, shows Tommy Sheridan admitting to an SSP member and former friend, George McNeilage, that he did visit a swingers' club in Manchester. Something he denied in court.

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Appointment confirmed at STS

The Sunday Times Scotland appoints new editor

The Sunday Times Scotland deputy editor Carlos Alba has stepped up to become editor.

Alba, 41, joined The Sunday Times Scotland in 2000 as chief reporter/deputy news editor from The Daily Record, where he was Scottish political editor. In 2001, he was promoted to deputy editor, Sunday Times Scotland.

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City newspaper domains snapped up

thelondonpaper publisher claims city domain names

News International has registered the names of at least 10 potential UK city newspapers along with thelondonpaper, its new afternoon free launched in the capital last month.

Press Gazette has learnt that thebirminghampaper, thebristolpaper, themanchesterpaper, thehullpaper, theleedspaper, theyorkpaper, theedinburghpaper, theglasgowpaper, thecardiffpaper and theliverpoolpaper have been bought as internet domain names by the company. All have been registered as .com and.co.uk domains.

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Herald and Times action

Newspaper staff to ballot on industrial action over pay date change

Staff at The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times in Glasgow are to ballot on industrial action over a change to the date they are paid.

Owners Newsquest have said that, from October, staff will be paid on the 26th of every month rather than the 20th.

But some staff are unhappy with the plan and the National Union of Journalists says it will cause widespread financial difficulties.

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Telling it as it is

'Spate' of Complaints Fails to Trouble Holleran

Newspaper managing directors will love reading this. According to the Scottish Organiser of the National Union of Journalists, Paul Holleran, he has received a “spate” of complaints recently from newspaper MDs that details of negotiations between the NUJ and them have somehow found their way on to allmediascotland.com. Holleran is in no doubt.

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Strike at Herald and Times?

Strike Ballot Ordered at Herald Group

The National Union of Journalists has informed the publishers of The Herald newspaper it intends to ballot for strike action next week. The decision by the union has been taken against Newsquest Strathclyde - which also boasts The Sunday Herald, the Evening Times and magazines in its division - and has been prompted by a dispute over the date when staff are paid.

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New senior reporter joins Evening Times

Lundy Lands Senior Reporter Role

One of Scotland’s most experienced journalists has joined the Evening Times in Glasgow, as a senior news reporter.
And it’s understood that Iain Lundy landed the job after a chance meeting with a member of the newsdesk saw him signed up for several weeks of shifts.

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Free newspaper mania hits Denmark

Free Daily Mania Grips Denmark

In their streets and on public transport, in their cars - and now directly to their homes. In the space of a few short weeks, Danes are being offered free daily newspapers, many of high quality, wherever they turn. An astonishing free news war has broken out in this Scandinavian market, which may well hold lessons for newspapers everywhere.

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Metro green edition


Metro produce one-off 'green' edition

Associated Newspaper has created a one-off ‘green’ edition of Metro for students in collaboration with London mayor Ken Livingstone and the Greater London Authority.

Nearly 40,000 copies of the special edition of the free morning paper are being sent this month to all new students who are attending university in London for the first time.

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Metro goes green for students

Metro, the free morning newspaper, has created a special one-off “green” edition to target the new influx of students in the capital.

The Associated Newspaper publication will be sending 40,000 copies of the exclusive edition out to new students. It has been created with the help of the Greater London Authority.

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Monday, October 02, 2006

Press and Journal joins World Snooker



World Snooker is delighted to announce that the Aberdeen Press and Journal will be our official media partner for the Royal London Watches Grand Prix.

Established in 1748, the Press and Journal is the oldest daily newspaper in Scotland. With a circulation of approximately 90,000 copies, it has the largest readership for a regional UK daily newspaper.

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Free papers dispute

London freesheets thrown off the bus

London's free newspapers have run into trouble with Transport for London over the illegal distribution of copies on buses.
Officials from TfL say they have seen distributors for Associated Newspapers' morning freesheet Metro and News International's evening giveaway the London Paper dumping papers on buses.

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PCC hit the road in Glasgow

Press watchdog hits the road

The Press Complaints Commission will be hitting the road again next month when it holds an open day in Glasgow.

It is the seventh such event to be held around the country to help the public find out more about what the press watchdog does.

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Exclusive - well maybe

Familiar Ring to Pigeon Exclusive

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, The Scotsman’s Scottish political editor, Hamish MacDonnell, will no doubt have liked seeing one of his stories being picked up by a rival newspaper.

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NI buys another web site

News International buys online recruitment firm Milkround

News International has acquired 100% of graduate recruitment website Milkround.com, making it the latest addition to Rupert Murdoch's online portfolio.

As reported on Brand Republic last month, Milkround.com, which also attracted interest from Daily Mail & General Trust and Trinity Mirror, had been in discussions with News International about a possible sale.

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Newspapers win U turn

'Open justice' wins as DCA rewrites claim access rules

Media lawyers have forced the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) into a U-turn over the introduction of a controversial rule that restricted the public's access to court documents.

A new rule, which comes into effect today (2 October), gives the media and members of the public access to documents such as pleadings and defence of a claim, which were previously not freely available.

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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Wed v Print - a sporting challenge

New media kicks off latest clash in age-old battle between the clubs and the press

In the recent past, if you missed the football scores at teatime on a Saturday, you had to buy a Pink paper to catch up with your team’s performance, and put up with the missing scores and poor quality coverage. Now the football aficionado has a myriad of ways to find out who beat who anywhere in the world, from 24-hour rolling sports news, digital radio or a club’s own website.

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