At the height of its powers, Auto Trader magazine had a circulation of almost 400,000 and was sold in 15,000 shops across the country. In the 1980s it was one of the UK’s top five selling magazines.
Skip forward a few decades to last week and this once mighty beast of the magazine jungle announced that it was to shut down its print operation and move online only.
BBC Newsnight's spiked Jimmy Savile child abuse story was today named joint winner of the scoop of the year at the London Press Club.
Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones picked up the prize alongside freelance Miles Goslett, whose story was published in The Oldie magazine after being turned down by seven nationals, and Mark Williams-Thomas, who broke the story in the mainstream media for ITV.
The women’s weekly market has suffered another blow with the closure of Full House after eight years.
The real life magazine’s last issue will be released tomorrow. The closure leaves around 20 editorial staff out of a job, including editor Dave Claridge.
Full House’s average weekly circulation for the six months to the end of last year was 138,158. In the six months after it launched in 2005, circulation peaked at an average of 235,787.
An order granting anonymity to a killer who committed "exceptionally horrific crimes" was overturned by the High Court today.
The murderer known as "M" can now be publicly identified as triple child-killer David McGreavy, who impaled the bodies of his three young victims on railings.
McGreavy, now 62, was jailed for life in 1973 for killing the children he was babysitting at a house in Gillam Street, Worcester, and is one of the country's most notorious and longest-serving prisoners.
Local World chief executive Steve Auckland has spoken to Press Gazette expanding on comments made by his colleague David Montgomery to MPs yesterday which were met with dismay by many journalists.
Local World chairman Montgomery spoke of the “human interface” disappearing in future and journalists instead “harvesting content”.
Consumer magazine publisher Future has reported a narrower pre-tax loss for the first half of 2013 compared with last year.
The publisher of Total Film, Total Guitar and T3 made a loss of £1.5 million in the six months to the end of March 2013, down from a £2.2 million loss in the same period 12 months ago.
The Conservative MP who chaired Westminster’s hacking inquiry has said that jailing journalists in the UK could send the wrong message abroad.
Speaking at a Council of Europe conference on press regulation yesterday, John Whittingdale said that senior figures at News International are “likely to go to prison” if convicted of criminal offences over their part in the phone-hacking scandal.
But he said that Britain needed to be clear that journalists would be jailed because of their criminal activity and “not for any political reason”.
Pressure group Liberty today urged the Government to scrap plans for a Royal Charter-backed system of press regulation.
Instead the group, whose director Chami Chakrabarti was one of the six Leveson Inquiry assessors, has called for a system of self regulation run by the industry itself along broad principles. This would be recognised by the courts under criteria set out in a new piece of legislation.
