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Martin Wainwright, correspondent in Leeds, is to become the new northern editor of The Guardian. He also presents Radio 4’s News Stand.

Following a board meeting which ran late into the night yesterday, the Saatchi & Saatchi board has announced this morning that it will be proposing a change of name for the holding company at an EGM in March.The board attacked Maurice Saatchi for “the campaign against the company, its clients and staff”, which he was… Continue reading Saatchi Board Agree To Name Change

Centaur’s new title, out today, claims to be “the first magazine written with the aim of putting you in control of your money”, and adopts an appropriately informative stance thereafter through 96 glossy pages of news and views on banks, investments, mortgages, insurance and overseas economies.The magazine goes in for a little name dropping with… Continue reading Inside Money – First Issue Report

Macmillan Publishing is closing its monthly title aimed at district nurses, Community Outlook, and re-launching it as a practical, advisory title, Community Nurse – also monthly from February, taking over the controlled circulation of its predecessor of 15,010.A monthly supplement Nurse Prescriber will be a clinical section to help nurses understand the issue of prescribing.Page… Continue reading New Nursing Title

IPC Magazines has agreed to buy out GE Publishing’s interest in Essentials and its worldwide licences. GE’s editorial team will now transfer to South Bank, and publishing director Sandy Gale will take responsibility for the title.The most recent edition of the title was launched in South Africa.

According to Register-Meal brand expenditure data for November the National Lottery spent in excess of £8m (8,368,000) on publicising the event; the first draw taking place on 19th November 1994.The National Lottery expenditure split was as follows: £(000’s) Television 3589 National Press 2668 Outdoor 1518 Regional Press 380 Radio 213

QualitiesThe December newspaper ABCs followed the pattern of previous years with almost all the national newspapers recording falls in circulation against November. The Financial Times was one of the exceptions, recording an increase of 1.44% on November to 297,395.A comparison against December 1993 gives more favourable results for the quality newspapers. The Times, while dipping… Continue reading National Press Round Up – December

Grampian Television’s new sponsorship team has lined up Gore-Tex as sponsor of the ITV station’s new ski report service, which goes out twice daily.The new sponsorship team is based at TSMS, and the deal was negotiated through Faulds Advertising.Sponsorship Manager: Joe Sweeney – 0181 991 6666

Steve Wright, presenter of BBC Radio 1’s breakfast show, is quitting the station he has been with for 14 years. He is leaving Radio 1 in order to ‘pursue his television interests’ with the BBC, however there are rumours that he is set to join Talk Radio UK, the third national commercial station which launches… Continue reading Steve Wright Quits Radio 1

Len Simmonds, MD of T Bailey Forman, publisher of the Nottingham Evening Post, is leaving the company, as new owners Northcliffe insert their man to run their new acquisition – he is Steve Anderson-Dixon, currently MD at Northcliffe’s Derby Evening Telegraph.