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Newspaper Publishers Assocation joins condemnation of BBC apps
The Newspaper Publishers Association has said that the BBC's decision to launch smartphone apps will have a ‘significant and negative’ impact upon the commercial media sector.
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News Publisher KM Group Digitising 150-Year Archive
Regional press publisher, the KM group, is to digitise its newspapers, which date back more than 150 years, after being awarded a £49,700 heritage lottery grant.
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Haymarket to relaunch What Car?
Haymarket Consumer Media will later this month relaunch its monthly motoring magazine, What Car?
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Dennis appoints Richard Downey as publishing director for fitness division
Dennis Publishing has appointed Richard Downey as publishing director for Men's Fitness and Health & Fitness magazines with immediate effect.
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Mag publishers launch 'diversity' placement scheme
The MagNet mentoring scheme has been launched through magazine publishers across the UK with the aim of supporting and promoting diversity among the industry’s workforce.
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WHSmith threatens to delist former MMC titles
WHSmith is adding to the pain caused by the collapse of MMC by insisting the distributor's former publisher clients are liable for unpaid in-store promotions.
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Publisher rapped over 'higher circulation' claim
A local press publisher has been forced to apologise for making inaccurate claims about its circulation
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Archant acquires publisher of Kent on Sunday
Regional publishing group Archant has acquired KOS Media, publisher of Kent on Sunday, for an undisclosed sum.
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Daily Star cuts newsagents' margin
Richard Desmond's Daily Star is to hit retailers' tills to the tune of almost £1m a year, as it clamps down on the cover-price margin of its tabloid newspaper.
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Seeing red over Scarlet magazine
A smart, sophisticated and sassy women's magazine has closed because it was too subversive for mainstream readers
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ABCs: Daily Regional Newspaper Audit Results – Jan to Jun 2010
Following the latest circulation results for the UK daily regional newspaper sector, only one title reported increased sales in the first half of 2010, according to the Audit of Bureau Circulations figures.
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PAPER PRICE UPDATE:
Print margins will take another hit next month as paper merchants gear up for what will be, for some, their fourth round of double-digit price rises in the past 12 months.
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Tesco plots launch of newsstand mags
Tesco is moving into the world of paid-for consumer magazines with the launch of three titles that will be available exclusively in the supermarket's 2,000 stores across the UK from October.
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