Lincolnshire-based Mortons Print was once again named Regional Printer of the Year at the prestigious UK ‘newsawards’ 2021 held in London on November 11, 2021.  In what is always a fiercely fought category, the judges’ mission was to find consistent and fault-free quality across a number of different newspaper publications. The quality of submissions was [...]

Award-winning Newspaper printing Kelsey Media and Mortons Print have had a strong working partnership for the last 13 years, with Mortons printing award-winning newspapers for one of the fastest-growing media businesses in the UK. Founded more than 30 years ago, the independent Kelsey organisation has rapidly grown from a traditional print publisher into a pioneering [...]

Launched by Emily Coxhead in December 2015, The Happy Newspaper is a platform to share positive news and wonderful people. Emily, with the help of a great team around her, has helped The Happy Newspaper become a sensation soon after its inception. Mortons Print have been able to help them on their search for a [...]

The owner of the Daily Mirror has agreed to buy the company behind titles including the Daily Express, the Daily Star and magazines such as OK! The deal is subject to shareholder approval. Trinity Mirror is to pay £126.7m for the publishing assets of Northern & Shell, which is owned by Richard Desmond. Sale talks [...]

Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield (pictured) has warned that local newspapers will close if MPs do not overturn the Section 40-style clause in the Data Protection Bill when it comes before the House of Commons. Writing in the Yorkshire Post, Mr Highfield said: “We always want to get the story right: that is how we [...]

The Financial Times (FT) celebrates its 130th anniversary this month having achieved a record high paid-for readership in 2017. More than 910,000 paid-for readers come to the FT across print and digital, up eight percent year on year (assured by Deloitte, Q4 2017). The FT is now a majority digital content business, with digital subscriptions [...]

THE Oldham Chronicle relaunches tomorrow, 14 February, as a digital-only title, six months after the 163-year-old regional daily newspaper went into administration. The new operators, radio station Revolution 96.2 owned by Credible Media, say the new website and social media presence for the title will be known as the Oldham Chronicle Online. Staff at the [...]

INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) has gone live in Northern Ireland with a circulation, distribution and subscription tool (NCS). INM has partnered with PCS to rollout the NCS for the Belfast Telegraph, allowing the publisher to create its vision for a circulation department of the future. PCS carried out further bespoke development of its circulation, distribution [...]

THE News Media Association (NMA) is seeking assurances that the Government remains committed to stamping out "town hall Pravdas" after an apparent climbdown from pursuing legal action against two local authorities who persist with the publications. Following reports last week that Government directions to Waltham Forest council and Hackney council to cease publishing their fortnightly [...]

Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a review into the future of the newspaper industry, warning that the closure of hundreds of titles was a "danger to our democracy". In a speech in Manchester, she warned that the decline of "credible" news providers left the public "vulnerable to news which is untrustworthy". The review will look [...]