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UK: Gannett says Newsquest is not for sale

Posted by Jodie Hopperton on December 12, 2006 at 10:37 AM

Following reports yesterday that Gannett are looking at selling their 300 strong newspaper group for £1.5bn, Gannett released a statement saying "There is no truth in the report. Newsquest is a valuable part of the Gannett company."

 


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UK: Regional newspapers swept up in digital media whirlwind

Posted by John Burke on February 27, 2006 at 4:15 PM
When the Daily Mail & General Trust put its regional newspaper group, Northcliffe on the block last fall, the crisis facing the market, primarily because of the Internet, became blatantly obvious. Perhaps even more telling that the future of British regional newspapers is in jeopardy were the weak offers for the 100-paper company, so weak in fact that DMGT repealed the sale. So what do editors and executives of those local papers think about threat posed to their no longer stable yet still profitable industry?


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UK: sale of regional newspaper group deserted

Posted by John Burke on February 20, 2006 at 1:13 PM
The Daily Mail and General Trust announced last week that it is taking its regional newspaper group, Northcliffe Newspapers, off the block. DMGT received three offers for the umbrella company of 100 newspapers, but none "fully reflect(ed) the long-term value of the business.


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UK: Johnston Press buys Scotsman newspaper group

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on December 19, 2005 at 4:13 PM

The Edinburgh based Johnston Press, fourth largest regional newspaper publisher in the UK, has purchased the Scotsman newspaper group for 160 million pounds stirling. In addition to its title daily the Scotsman group publishes Scotland on Sunday, The Edinburgh Evening News and the Edinburgh Herald and Post series of free weeklies. 


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UK: Northcliffe Newspapers staff auction themselves on e-bay

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on December 12, 2005 at 4:15 PM

Following the announcement, by Daily Mail and General Trust, that regional publisher Northcliffe Newspapers is to be sold (see previous posting), staff facing redundancy at The Western Daily Press in Bristol have placed an add on e-bay offering themselves up for auction.


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UK: Northcliffe Newspapers for sale

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on December 1, 2005 at 12:50 PM

The UK's Daily Mail and General Trust (DGMT) is determined to sell its regional press group Northcliffe Newspapers, publisher of over 100 regional papers across the UK, for a price tag of approximately 1.5 billion pounds sterling. Northcliffe is the largest publisher of regional dailies in the UK.


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