Why Iain Martin Will Soon Edit a National Newspaper
Iain Martin was yesterday appointed deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. It is the latest in a series of moves that leaves the 35 year-old journalist one job away from becoming the first Scottish editor of a quality national newspaper since Andrew Neil left the Sunday Times in 1994.
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Hopes High for Solution at Herald
A dispute over the date staff are paid at the Herald group of titles could be resolved by end of today.
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Press Gazette closes after 41 years
Press Gazette's editorial team would like to thank all of its readers over the past 41 years, and all of those who have given us support in the recent difficult weeks.
The magazine's staff was informed tonight by managing director Simon Read that they were being made redundant with immediate effect.
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Millionaire to make cut-price £500m offer for Mirror papers
Marcus Evans, the multimillionaire conference organiser, is ready to bid for the Daily Mirror, but only if its current owners accept £200 million less than he offered two years ago, The Times has learnt.
The low-profile Mr Evans, who made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the tabloid in 2004, is willing to offer about £550 million to £600 million — far less than the £700 million to £800 million last time.
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Question On Scotland Titles In Trinity Bid
UBS notes the reported interest of Marcus Evans in Trinity Mirror (TNI.LN), for between GBP550M and GBP600M. "This is roughly GBP200M less than his reported bid last time," analysts note. "Crucially, it is unclear whether the bid includes or excludes Scottish titles," analysts say.
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Mirror's digital editions "likely to infringe photographers' copyright"
The move to republish a century’s worth of newspapers digitally – which would also allow third parties to reproduce parts of the pages of the newspaper – could be the largest breach of copyright ever attempted by a UK publisher.
The plans to make available electronic copies of the Daily Mirror is now at an advanced stage, and is expected to go live in around six weeks time, despite no licenses have been obtained from third-party copyright holders.
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Trinity Mirror to decide on new structure, possible sale in early December
Newspaper group Trinity Mirror is to complete a strategic review, which could include the sale of some divisions, in early December, the Financial Times reported.
The paper said Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror newspaper, could announce a decision at its December 14 trading update. The group is reported to have been approached by a range of potential buyers interested in acquiring various parts of its business
PCC Gets Pass Marks from Public
The general public appear to think press regulation could not be improved much more than it already operates, accordinf to a poll.
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A former sports editor of the Daily Mail is tomorrow taking his specialism of producing ‘Big Interview’ sports features to the airwaves.
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Tycoon looking at 600 mln stg bid for Trinity Mirror national titles - report
Multi-millionaire conference organiser Marcus Evans is considering tabling a 550-600 mln stg bid for Trinity Mirror's Daily Mirror title, just over a year after 700-800 mln bid was rebuffed by the UK newspaper group, according to a report in the Times.
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Trinity Mirror denies "auction" as £600m offer for Mirror titles reported
Trinity Mirror has emphasised that it is not holding an auction of its assets, following a report in The Times today that conference organiser Marcus Evans has “registered an interest” to buy the Mirror and Sunday Mirror.
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Who's eyeing Trinity Mirror?
Newspaper group Trinity Mirror is about to finish its review of regional and national newspaper assets. Meanwhile, media investment companies, private equity groups and regional publishers await its outcome.
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Back to Old Stomping Ground for Former Reporter
A former reporter at one of Scotland’s biggest local newspapers is returning to his former stomping ground - this time, to become editor. Brian Stormont is leaving Fife - where he currently edits the Glenrothes Gazette - to become editor of the Arbroath Herald.
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Nicoll Named as Comment Editor
An Edinburgh writer has swung a prestigious appointment down south.
Columnist and novelist, Ruaridh Nicoll, has been elevated to the job of comment editor at The Observer, taking over from Barbara Gunnell, who has moved over to the New Statesman.
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Farquharson Follows Snowdon to SoS
The assistant editor at Sunday Times Scotland, has been appointed by his former boss, to the assistant editor’s post at Scotland on Sunday.
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Objectivity Still Prime Motivation for Newspaper Reporters
Four out of five newspaper journalists hold by the established principle that their job is about reporting objectively, with less than one in ten strongly believing their job is about giving their opinion.
It follows a survey conducted by the media website, Hold the Front Page, which surveyed over 400 people, among them reporters, student reporters, staff and freelancers, sub-editors and newspaper managers.
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Early Success for Sunday Herald Publishing Foray
The Sunday Herald has not only made a foray into book publishing, its debut title is proving a sales success. Earlier this month, the newspaper's name was lent to the publication of a book on the conflict in Iraq, 'The War on Truth', by its investigations editor, Neil Mackay.
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Newspaper Publisher Launches Next Phase in Digital Drive
The publishers of the Daily Record has launched a website tapping into the lucrative market that is car sales.
scotwheels.co.uk is a joint venture spearheaded by Trinity Mirror’s Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd and sister company, Scottish and Universal Newspapers.
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Local Newspapers Might Have Little to Fear, Says Report
An independent report has found that local newspapers may have no reason to fear BBC plans to broadcast ‘ultra local’ TV, which last week took a new twist when BBC director-general, Mark Thompson, told the Society of Editors annual conference in Glasgow that the Corporation might even pay local papers for content.
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Thomson Headed for Industrial Tribunal
The now former deputy sports editor at The Sunday Herald is intending to take his employers to industrial tribunal after being sacked for 'gross misconduct'. Following an internal disciplinary procedure, Roddy Thomson is first going to pursue an internal appeal against the sacking.
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Love to be Recognised in Reporter Award
An award recognising a former editor of the Inverness Courier newspaper has been set up as part of the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards.
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Sun Sales Steady, Record’s Fall - Again
While there was little change in the average sales enjoyed by the Sun newspaper in Scotland, between last month and the previous one, it was not such good news for rival, the Daily Record, which suffered a third successive drop in its circulation.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Mail still far and away the biggest-selling newspaper in Scotland, coming in at 484,243.
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Press and Journal writer receives Royal recognition
A writer from the Press and Journal in Aberdeen has been nominated for an award for her efforts to raise awareness of the work of carers.
Columnist Nicola Barry is in line for a media award from the Princess Royal Trust for Carers.
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'Lancashire Evening Post no longer only a newspaper' - editor
The Lancashire Evening Post is no longer only a newspaper, according to its editor Simon Reynolds.
He claims that a "quiet revolution" has transformed the title and invigorated staff.
The newspaper now boasts a multimedia newsroom, and seven months on from its launch publishes 500 stories a week, 550 pictures and 20 pieces of video online.
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Richard Desmond's Daily Express and Daily Star bore the brunt of widespread month-on-month circulation falls but Rupert Murdoch's Sun and Times also felt the pain, according to the October ABC figures for paid-for national newspapers.
The Daily Express was down 3.69% to 788,719 copies and the Daily Star was down 3.71% to 770,834 copies.
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It is wrong for criminals to be able to exploit for financial gain crimes which have devastated the lives of victims and their families. The proposals being consulted on to prevent this are:
* making it a criminal offence for money to be received by or paid to convicted criminals for publications about their crimes;
* introducing a new civil scheme for the recovery of any profits, the Government's preferred option;
* extending the self-regulatory approach governing the press to other groups such as book publishers and film makers; or
* to make no changes to the current position.
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Trinity Mirror Regional's editorial director has given a cautious welcome to news that the BBC may start paying for Local TV content. Neil Benson told Journalism.co.uk he was encouraged but still had concerns about BBC plans to buy-in video news for the service.
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During the evening I had the rare opportunity of a face to face meeting with Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror - one of Britain's biggest companies and owner of the Advertiser.
But it wasn’t long before the in-demand Ms Bailey was introduced to a Lebanese man who exports HP sauce around the world and it was time for me to head back to the cheese on cocktail sticks.
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London Paper leapfrogs freesheet rival
News International's the London Paper beat London Lite, published by Associated Newspapers, distributing nearly 5,000 more copies than its rival in October - the first full month of competition in the capital's freesheet war.
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He also highlighted figures showing the Treasury had spent £173,599 on bookings for conferences that were cancelled, £258,000 on stationery and £14,000 on pot plants and flowers in 2005-06, as well as £8,000 a month on newspapers and magazines.
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Society of Editors: Who said what at the conference
"We've come across the media catastrophe ravine, I think we've come across and on the other side is a flatter plateau."
Observer editor Roger Alton on newspaper circulations
"What you read is spiteful, biased, inaccurate factoid-based journalism that portrays you as a hateful, terrifying, anti-social, petty criminal that society would be better without.
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FT and four Sundays are up in latest ABCs
he Financial Times is the only daily to show a year-on-year increase in the latest national newspaper circulation figures for October – released by ABC today.
The FT was up 4.9 per cent on October last year to reach sales of 439,774. The Daily Mail was neither up nor down with an October sale of 2,350,730.
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Writers Block Removed
Progress in the world of soccer. A meeting held yesterday by the Scottish Football Writers' Association was the first to be attended by a representative from the Scottish Premier League.
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Telegraph editors brand striking staff 'luddites'
Daily and Sunday Telegraph editors Will Lewis and Patience Wheatcroft have accused some of their staff of being "luddites" for refusing to work before 10am without an extra payment of £100.
The editors wrote in separate but similar letters to their staff that the payment, demanded by NUJ members, was "ridiculous", and also urged them not to join the planned strike next Tuesday.
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Telegraph £12 million in red for 2005
Exceptional restructuring and office move costs pushed the Telegraph Group £12 million into the red in 2005.
The first accounts filed since the Barclay brothers bought the Telegraph titles in 2004 for £625 million show that they have taken a £45.8 million hit from "exceptional costs".
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Newspapers: Go On, Show More Independence
So, we’re all out of step - except Jack. Apart from Labour, all the political parties in Scotland, plus academics, journalists and opinion pollsters are united in saluting the idea of the Scottish Parliament having more powers.
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Extra, Extra! Read (More) About It
More sport at the ever-improving Scotsman? Seems like it. Under new editor, Mike Gilson, who is known to like his sport, The Scotsman sports’ section is enjoying something of a renaissance, with pagination up, in some cases almost double.
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AMICUS join NUJ in call for action
AMICUS members have joined their NUJ members at Newsquest (Herald and Times) in returning votes in excess of 90% for industrial action and over 80% for action which could include the first strike in Scottish newspapers in 26 years.
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Johnston evening's multimedia newsroom adds readers and online traffic
Johnston Press's flagship multimedia newsroom - the Lancashire Evening Post - has quadrupled its website readership figures while the main newspaper has actually improved its sales performance.
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BBC may pay papers for content and draw on their 'newsgathering clout'
BBC director general Mark Thompson has unveiled surprise plans to enter into contractual relationships with the local and regional newspaper industry.
He announced the move at the Society of Editors' conference in Glasgow, where regional editors have previously voiced fears over the corporation's ultra-local television news strategy.
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Neil Berates Scottish Media
Andrew Neil may have departed 'Barclay Towers' in the wake of Johnston Press' takeover of the Scotsman titles, but 'Brillo' hasn't taken his beady eye off 'matters meeja', north of the border.
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McGurk Ousted at Telegraph
Former Scotsman editor, John McGurk, has stepped down as managing editor of the Telegraph Group, just six months after moving south to re-join the Barclays, former owners of the Scotsman titles and now owners of the Telegraph empire.
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Kill off Kill Fees, Appeal Made
Freelance print journalists in Edinburgh are being urged to support a campaign to eliminate the practice of newspapers paying a 'kill fee' when a piece of work is not published.
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Neil Berates Scottish media
Andrew Neil may have departed 'Barclay Towers' in the wake of Johnston
Press' takeover of the Scotsman titles, but 'Brillo' hasn't taken his beady eye off
'matters meeja', north of the border.
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Sun and NOW launch readers' mobile service
The Sun and News of the World have both launched new services allowing readers to send in stories, pictures and video for publication via mobile phone text message.
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Trinity Mirror looks to free market for Liverpool Daily Post
A third of all copies of the Liverpool Daily Post are to be given away to city centre workers, as the trend among regional newspaper publishers to turn to free distribution marches on.
Daily Post publisher Trinity Mirror is to circulate around 6,000 copies of the 17,000 circulation title for free in the central business district of Liverpool at key office, blocks as well as handing it out to passersby.
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Liverpool Daily Post goes free in city centre
The Liverpool Daily Post has abandoned its cover price in the centre of the city and launched a free edition for office workers.
The paper is circulating 6,000 copies for free in the business district of Liverpool, with 4,000 distributed at key city office blocks and a further 2,000 handed out to pedestrians.
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Strike at Telegraph Group over job cuts and conditions
Telegraph journalists have voted to go on a three -day strike.
The NUJ chapel met today and decided to go ahead with strike action after an official ballot – which concluded last week – found 76 per cent of NUJ members who voted had said yes to possible strike action.
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