Daily Mail & General Trust becomes the latest media firm to warn over a slowdown in advertising, as revenues from its regional newspapers tumbled 12% since the start of the year... more
European newspaper publisher Mecom declares it will pay a dividend this year, saying this shows it is doing better financially than British counterparts Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press... more
Five years ago this month I gave a speech to regional newspaper executives in which I urged them to "preach the reach". In other words, given the range of platforms that we now use to deliver news, I argued that it was necessary to show how audiences, though diminishing for printed publications, were increasing in the digital arena... more
Shareholders in Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press rushed for the exits today as Citigroup warned that this will be another tough year for provincial newspapers... more
Media Analysis: For his own sake, I hope that Jeremy Hunt doesn’t view his ultra-local television proposal as The Big Idea of his time in government... more
Former Labour City minister Paul Myners uses a speech in the House of Lords to attack the previous government — of which he was a leading member — for its “flawed” economic thinking ... more
Regional newspaper group Johnston Press says it is seeing an “improving trend” in advertising, with like-for-like declines down 7.3% in the first nine weeks of 2010 ... more
Media Analysis: Every year in newspapers is a year of crisis. It is true of what we report about the world and, increasingly in the last decade, true of what we live through within our own trade... more
Shares of British Airways were flying high today, as they climbed back above the 200p level with a rise of 6p to 206p amid hopes that a merger with the Spanish carrier Iberia will be completed within the next few days ... more
The chief executive of regional newspapers giant Johnston Press has called for the BBC licence fee to be cut by a third to stop it creeping ever deeper into local news ... more
Martin Gilbert today denied he was leading a consortium of Scottish businessmen in talks to buy The Scotsman newspaper, throwing fresh doubt over the future of the 192-year-old title ... more
Media analysis: Publishers of regional and local newspapers are eager to persuade the Government of the importance of dismantling competition barriers.... more
British regional newspaper group Johnston Press said media-industry veteran Roger Parry would retire as chairman in March and would be replaced by non-executive director Ian Russell... more
There can be few more difficult and unpalatable jobs than managing decline in a mature market. Yet that’s what regional newspaper owners have been doing for at least a quarter of a century... more
Two of Britain's largest companies launched emergency rights issues to bolster their balance sheets as the economic slowdown and continuing credit crunch forced them to seek extra cash... more
Johnston Press, publisher of regional newspapers ranging from the Yorkshire Post to the Worthing Herald, stunned investors with a £212 million fund-raising today - most of it through a rights issue... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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