Another big-city newspaper with a proud tradition has effectively been closed. According to former Birmingham Post sports writer RANDALL NORTHAM, mana…
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Category: Regional newspapers
Changing Standards not guaranteed a free ride
By Barry Newcombe The Evening Standard will be all over London today and for the first time since it was founded in 1827 it will be given away free ac…
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Bose returns, as Standard interviewer
Mihir Bose, the BBC’s first sports editor who left the corporation last month, has been hired by the Evening Standard as a sports interviewer.…
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Chronicle campaign helps save Chester
A weekly newspaper campaign has helped save Chester City Football Club from almost certain closure.…
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Walker appointed head of sport in Edinburgh merger
Donald Walker, the sports editor at The Scotsman, has been named as group sports editor, with responsibility for sports coverage in the Edinburgh-base…
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Sports editor job may go in Edinburgh merger
Senior jobs on the sports desks at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday seem likely to be merged out of existence.…
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Edinburgh merger will see 25 jobs cut
Up to 25 editorial staff could go in the merger of the newsrooms of Edinburgh-based Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. The sports desks of the two title…
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Sports editor among local paper cuts
A sports editor with more than 40 years’ experience on his local paper is one of 16 redundancies as part of a Trinity Mirror “restructurin…
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Redundancies finalised at Herald group
The long drawn-out process of mass redundancies at the Herald group of papers in Glasgow – in which all 250 staff were told to re-apply for 210 …
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Bought for £1 – how Standards have changed
BARRY NEWCOMBE on the startling developments, and some memories, at London’s Evening Standard BBC television news told me the news last night. A…
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