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04Mar
2021

Newsquest Launches Climate Change Campaign

Newsquest is launching a climate change campaign across its 160 local news brands. The publisher, which has over 40 million unique visitors online, today launched the 'Climate Crisis - Time For Change' campaign across its portfolio. Th...

04Feb
2021

Comscore: Local News Audiences Rise Sharply Over Pandemic

Local news from the UK’s regional press industry was read by 43.7 million people in December, data from Comscore has revealed. In total, 85.8 per cent of the UK’s adult, online population used local news in December, up from 79...

14Jan
2021

JPIMedia Launches Campaign For Pharmacy Vaccination Centres

Hundreds of JPIMedia titles have launched a campaign calling for local pharmacies to be used as vaccination centres, providing residents with local access to vaccinations. As the roll-out of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine continues, the Yor...

07Jan
2021

Powerful Front Pages In Local Media In 2020

Local media produced powerful stories in 2020, with The Yorkshire Evening's Post FoI campaign to the Northern Echo championing the Northern Powerhouse project in response to new coronavirus restrictions. These stories demonstrate the powerf...

03Dec
2020

Newsquest To Launch A New Daily Newspaper For Oldham

A weekly newspaper which was launched by Newsquest just three years ago is to become a daily paper in the New Year. The Oldham Times will become a six-days-a-week print title from January 2021, returning a daily newspaper to the borough. ...