UK local newspaper closures: Launches in digital and print balance out decline
Thirty-three UK local newspapers have closed since September 2020 but new launches in print and digital outnumber this figure. Twenty-seven…
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Reach opens voluntary redundancy round amid ‘challenging’ market conditions
Reach has opened a voluntary redundancy round for its journalists in an attempt to cut costs. However the National Union…
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Local press legend (and Press Gazette’s Grey Cardigan) Mike Lowe dies aged 68
A legendary editor from the heyday of UK local newspapers, Mike Lowe, has died at the age of 68 after…
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Gloucestershire publisher hopes to ‘revolutionise’ regional media with membership model
The owner of Gloucestershire business news and entertainment website SoGlos has launched a membership model it claims could “revolutionise” regional…
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Evening Standard posts £14m loss in 2021 in fifth consecutive year without profit
The Evening Standard reported a pre-tax loss of £14m in 2021 in its fifth consecutive year in the red. While…
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Liverpool Echo editor accuses critics of ‘snobbery’ amid clickbait debate
Liverpool Echo editor Maria Breslin has hit back at accusations of local news clickbait, saying such claims are “snobbery” that…
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Bristol mayor: Reporters are not banned – they just aren’t invited to briefings
Update 8/7/22: Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees has insisted he has not banned BBC-funded local democracy reporters from his press briefings –…
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IPSO upholds Katie Hopkins complaint against Cornwall Live over claim she was thrown out of pub
Katie Hopkins has won a complaint against a regional news website in Cornwall that claimed she had been ejected from…
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