With the Daily Record’s evening edition about to switch from being 15p to free - with Aberdeen and Dundee being added to the current distribution network of Edinburgh and Glasgow - hopes are relatively high that the damage to the four cities' paid-for titles will be minimal.
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A ratio of 80 per cent colour and 20 per cent black and white looks to have become the norm in the pages of Scotland’s biggest-selling newspaper, which last Sunday comprised over 200 pages and yesterday wasn’t that far behind in repeating the feat.
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Johnston Press has acquired Archant's Scottish Newspaper operation for £11.205 million.
The acquisition includes eight weekly newspapers; three paid fors in the North East of Scotland around Peterhead and Fraserburgh and five free papers in central Scotland around Glasgow, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Paisley.
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The Press Complaints Commission will regulate newspapers' online video content, its chairman Sir Christopher Meyer has said.
Meyer told BBC News 24's Straight Talk programme that the press watchdog would regulate audiovisual material on newspaper websites as well as text, and described the move as a great step forward.
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A former chief sportswriter at The Herald newspaper has died.
Jim Reynolds passed away yesterday morning, from throat cancer, which had been diagnosed in the last two weeks. Jim had begun a course of chemotherapy only on Monday.
A notice of the funeral arrangements is expected in the Herald
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Daily Record publisher Trinity Mirror looks likely to follow up the launch of the free Record PM with free weekly newspapersforEdinburgh,Dundeeand Aberdeen along the same lines as its existing free title, The Glaswegian.
To the horror of newsagents, this could well be followed later in the year by the extension into Aberdeen and Dundee of the Scottish edition of free morning paper Metro.
Trinity Mirror is understood to want to create platforms for selling advertising across a number of titles in the way that it already does in Glasgow with the Record, Record PM, Sunday Mail, The Glaswegian and Metro.
While it registered the company names The Aberdonian, The Dundonian and The Edinburgh and Lothians Post as long ago as 1990, it has recently created dummies with a view to launches in the coming months.
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It was pretty much a case of ‘as you were’ last month, in the race to be the biggest-selling daily newspaper in Scotland, with the Sun’s average circulation in December remaining at around 33,000 copies ahead of its rival, the Daily Record.
To be more accurate, the gap of 33,583 in November narrowed slightly to 32,807 last month. But a sterner test of the Sun’s sales lead will come with this month’s ABC figures, with the newspaper having last week increased its price from 10p to 15p.
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The London Evening Standard suffered an 18% year-on-year drop in circulation in December as the effect of the capital's freesheet war continued to bruise the 50p paper.
Meanwhile London Lite, the freesheet from the Standard's owner, Associated Newspapers, narrowed the gap with The London Paper, its News International rival.
In the third full month of the London freesheet war, London Lite distributed an average 400,692 copies, its highest tally yet.
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The Daily Record is to launch free evening titles in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee on 22 January.
The paper first launched two evening editions titled Record PM in Glasgow and Edinburgh for 15p, which was seen as a response to The Scottish Sun replacing the Record as Scotland’s top-selling newspaper at 393,953.
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A prominent Scottish journalist yesterday lost his legal battle with the Sunday Herald newspaper.
Angus MacLeod, Scottish political editor of The Times and a regular contributor to radio and television, sued the sister paper of The Herald over a diary item in the Sunday paper.
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The message preached by Sly Bailey, ceo of Trinity Mirror, a couple of days ago. Newspapers can thrive despite the online threat. Advertisers are not going to desert to the net. The current advertising downturn in newspapers is largely cyclical rather than structural.
I guess Bailey must have been talking about newspapers in general rather than the specific ones owned by her company because the latest set of official circulation figures tell a very different story.
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Trinity Mirror has reshuffled its celebrity and TV magazine portfolio following what it has described as a 'change of its reporting lines'.
It is understood that the publisher, which publishes weekend celebrity and TV titles including Celebs on Sunday and We Love Telly!, has changed the structure of the portfolio, with each national newspaper editor now assuming responsibility for its magazine supplements.
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Newspapers as printed products will remain a powerful medium for years to come, according to newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror's chief executive Sly Bailey.
Speaking to a business audience in Cardiff Bailey also accepted that some "old media companies" would be swept away by the internet, but maintained that Trinity Mirror would not be one of them.
She said: "There's no question that the internet represents an enormous challenge to our business models, as we face the twin threats of consumers accessing the web for news and entertainment and advertisers following the eyeballs...
"We remain convinced that newspapers, as printed products, will remain a powerful medium for many years to come. I don't wish to sound complacent... we are not.
"But to focus solely on the threats, as opposed to the opportunities would be a huge mistake."
Bailey's comments came as Trinity Mirror nears completion of a £100m-plus overhaul of its print sites. It is installing a raft of new presses at its sites in Watford and Glasgow, and has completed press upgrades at its Oldham, Birmingham and Cardiff print plants.
John Smith’s has struck a partnership deal with the Daily Mirror and Daily Record to create a charity race at this year’s Grand National.
The beer brand, the title sponsor of the famous horse race, has set up the John Smith’s People’s Race
The Johnston Press-owned Yorkshire Evening Post has launched a free weekly newspaper for the growing population of young professionals living in the Leeds city centre.
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With the ABCs due on Friday the Sunday Mirror is expected to be down by around 13%, or 200,000 copies.
Still as far as the Sunday Mirror is concerned Sly has come up with a solution. The answer? Hike the paper's cover price to 90p and make it more expensive than top selling rival News of the World. Huh? Can someone call in a management consultant to explain that to me?
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After breaking the news, towards the end of last year, that the future of the Edinburgh Press Club was habging in the balance, we then failed to report the extraordinary general meeting that was to decide its fate. Our apologies. The EGM took place on Sunday evening and, as expected, members decided to shut the club down.
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A former chief executive of energy giants, ScottishPower, has been made a member of the board of directors at the publishers of The Scotsman newspaper.
Ian Russell joins the board of Johnston Press as a non-executive director with immediate effect. He joined ScottishPower as its finance director in 1994.
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Trinity Mirror has closed down its magazine unit and is negotiating redundancies with some of its 39 staff.
The closure of the unit, which produces the colour magazines for the group's newspapers, follows Trinity Mirror's failure to successfully launch a consumer magazine - part of the original justification of for the unit.
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Trinity Mirror chief Sly Bailey has told business leaders that the current downturn being experienced by newspaper publishers was primarily cyclical in nature.
She told them that an explosion in technological development - in particular broadband uptake - had swept away all the old certainties.
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Metro International has closed its Polish edition – Metropol.
The free newspaper – which claims 18 million readers in 20 countries – launched in Warsaw in 2000.
A Metro spokesman said: “Metropol had grown to become one of Poland's largest daily newspapers.
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The Scottish Sun raised its cover price by 5p to 15p today, heralding a new chapter in its circulation war with rival title the Daily Record.
The move comes after the Daily Record announced it was scrapping the 15p cover price of its Record PM afternoon edition and converting it into a freesheet.
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THE early evening spectacle of newspaper vendors elbowing one another out of the way on London's streets is about to be replicated north of the Border. A standalone Daily Record freesheet, to be distributed in four cities, heralds a new - but not necessarily prosperous - dawn for the Scottish newspaper industry. Between 15,000 and 20,000 copies of the new paper are to be given away in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee.
Industry insiders believe that the cost of setting up free editions in Scotland's biggest cities would have been better invested in the main paper.
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Private equity groups Candover and Apax are considering bids for all or part of Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror. News of their interest comes as NM Rothschild, the investment bank appointed by Trinity chief executive Sly
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The Daily Record PM is to transform into a free newspaper for commuters, six months after it was first published with a cover price of 15p.
The afternoon edition circulates in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The freesheet will extend to Aberdeen and Dundee.
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The Daily Record's afternoon edition is to be relaunched as a free commuter paper distributing in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Free PM, which is also planned to be distribute in Aberdeen and Dundee, will carry around 44 pages and will distribute to between 15,000 and 20,000 from 5pm and 7pm each weekday.
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A milestone in Scottish newspaper history was marked on Wednesday, when Malcolm Speed, the managing editor of the Scottish Sun, celebrated fifty years in journalism - the occasion marked by an impromptu ceremony organised by colleagues, who suddenly appeared, bearing a cake.
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The future is free. The future is broke. The Record’s decision to make its PM edition free may solve the short-term needs of Trinity Mirror, but it marks a black day for the newspaper industry.
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Marmaduke Hussey was a former chairman of the BBC governors who presided over the broadcasting institution for 10 of its most turbulent years.
He attended Rugby school before Trinity College, Oxford. After university he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and went to war. In 1943, he was machine-gunned down in Italy and lost a leg.
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