Steve Auckland is out as David Montgomery takes full control of Local World
Steve Auckland has resigned as chief executive of Local World after less than a year in the job. Executive chairman…
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OFT clearance for Local World deal
The Office of Fair Trading has today given the green light to the merger of two newspaper groups to create…
By Local World axes 25 freelancers from hyperlocal network to make way for user-generated content
Local World has terminated the contracts of 25 freelance journalists who had been running its hyperlocal sites. The decision to…
By David Montgomery tells of ‘stimulating’ future ahead as all Local World journalists become editors
Local World chairman David Montgomery has told Press Gazette that he sees a ‘stimulating’ and ‘challenging’ future ahead for journalists…
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Montgomery’s vision for the Local World group may be scary…but at least it’s a vision
Listening to newspaper veterans trying to use digispeak can be as toe-curling as hearing grandad rap with a 15-year-old. The…
By Local World chief clarifies Montgomery’s ‘human interface’ comment: ‘We are not doing away with journalists’
Local World chief executive Steve Auckland has spoken to Press Gazette expanding on comments made by his colleague David Montgomery…
By Former Northcliffe editor Barrie Williams on Monty’s brave new (Local) World: ‘Somebody’s got to start somewhere’
I was telling Dominic Ponsford about the way we were in the regional newspaper industry before the dramatic decline of…
By Monty’s Local World vision: Editors ‘pretty redundant’, 20-fold increase in content
Local World chairman David Montgomery has outlined his vision for a newspaper group where journalists oversee a 20-fold increase in…
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