Publishing

Johnston Press chief steps down

Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield is to leave the newspaper group after more than six years in the role.

Culture secretary could intervene on Trinity Mirror's N&S deal

Culture secretary Matt Hancock has said he may be “minded to” intervene on Trinity Mirror’s acquisition of Northern & Shell’s publishing assets over various “public interest considerations”.

Sweet deals: how to make friends & influence people

These days it seems there are as many marketing strategies to promote a print business as there are tools to keep the presses running.

New audience measurement tool for publishers launched

The Published Audience Measurement Company (PAMCo) has launched the industry’s new audience measurement “currency”, which enables users to look at audience delivery across all publisher platforms for...

Johnston Press revenue down but trading 'in line with expectations'

Johnston Press has recorded a revenue drop of 9.5% in its full-year results and warned it would need to cut costs against a “difficult backdrop” but said its adjusted EBITDA was “in line with...

More continental buys on the cards at Walstead

Walstead has further European buys in its sights after posting a huge jump in turnover in the first full year of consolidated results for the existing group.

HP seeks to increase publishing supply chain efficiency with Piazza

HP has introduced a set of independent and interlocking cloud-based services to make book manufacturing and distribution more time- and cost-efficient for publishers.

Overmatter: fooled again

With April Fool’s Day coinciding with Easter Sunday this year, the associated ‘is it, or isn’t’ fun and frolics was relatively constrained.

Future buys five Haymarket consumer titles in £14m deal

Haymarket Media Group has sold five of its titles to Future Publishing in a deal thought to be worth up to £14m.

Newsquest to close CN Group printing ops

Newsquest has outlined plans to close the printing operations at the CN Group in Carlisle, which it acquired last week, with more than 30 jobs at risk.