Launches
Oink!
Sector: children’s Frequency: monthly
Publisher: Ernest Henry
Oink! is a national newspaper about money for kids. One million copies are distributed free to schools, libraries, shops, and leisure centres. There are features on money issues, fashion, entertainment and cookery.
Editor: Ernest Henry
Contact: 52, Charles Streeet,London WR1 5EU
Tel: 020 7409 0902
Email: kateg@piggybank.co.uk
Relaunches
Catering and Hotelkeeper
Sector: hospitality
Frequency: weekly
Publisher: Reed Business Information
Price: £2.00
Circulation: 30,938
The best-selling magazine for the hospitality industry has been updated with a new masthead, fonts and colour scheme. In addition the title has 10 extra pages of editorial.
Editor: Forbes Mutch
Contact: Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS
Tel: 020 8652 3221
Fax: 020 8652 8973
Email: forbes.mutch@rbi.co.uk
Website: www.reedbusiness.co.uk/products/caterer_ hotelkeeper.asp
Books
Understanding Women’s Magazines by Anna Gough-Yates
The ever changing women’s magazine market is examined in this book by Anna Gough-Yates, a sociology, culture and communications lecturer at Brunel University. She looks at the fortunes of Elle, Marie Claire, Eve and Red in terms of advertising, production and marketing . She argues that political and economic changes have forced magazines to increasingly focus on lifestyles and on attempts to pinpoint a typical modern woman.
Price: £14.99 Publisher: Routledge
Contact: 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Events
FT New Media and Broadcasting Conference
A panel of leading industry commentators will discuss the challenges facing broadcast and online media. Uncertain advertising revenues and the threat of piracy will be on the agenda. Speakers include chairman of Carlton Communications Michael Green, Sogecable CEO Javier D’ez de Polanco and Grokster president Wayne Rosso.
Date: 3 and 4 March
Venue: Hotel Inter-Continental, London
Tel: 020 7873 3262
E-mail: www.ftconferences@ft.com
Awards
Outstanding Educational journalism
A £2,000 prize is on offer for excellence in educational journalism. Open to national, regional and B2B publications, previous winners include the BBC’s Mike Baker and Wendy Wallace, who writes for the Times Educational Supplement.
Contact: Edexcel’s 2002 Educational Journalism award, External relations, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
Tel: 020 7758 5508
Email: stevie.pattison-dick@edexcel.org.uk
Awards reminders
PPA Magazines 2003 awards
Deadline : 30 January
Contact: Rose Benjamin, PPA, Queens House, 28 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JR
Tel: 020 7400 7565
Website: www.ppa.co.uk
York Press Write Stuff Competition
Deadline : 31 May
Contact: Sky Ferrey, Editor’s secretary, The Evening Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York YO1 9YN
Tel: 01904 653051
E-mail : sky.ferrey@ycp.co.uk
Website : www.thisisyork.co.uk
The Picture Editors’ awards
Deadline : 10 February
Contact: Glyn Genin
Tel: 07973 147586
E-mail: glyngenin@pictureawards.net
Local reporting awards
Deadline : 11 July
Contact: Martha Leary-Tanner, The Newspaper Society, Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA
Tel: 020 7636 7014
E-mail: martha_lt@newspapersoc.org.uk
Website: www.newspapersoc.org.uk
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