14 Sep 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - All local government jobs in Scotland are now available from Johnston Press' Scotsman...0 The publishing company has signed a partnership with Scottish local authority jobs portal, MyjobScotland to carry local government vacancies from across the country. A number of Johnston Press ...
, will carry a marketing campaign to promote the website. Local authority jobs will also continue to be carried ...
20 Mar 2009
| by Arif Durrani
LONDON - National and local Government should be looking to support embattled regional newspapers...and public sector partnerships to be explored at a local level, admitting historically local government had ...
. "The NS has called on the government to rein in rather than encourage local councils which seek ...
local papers for years particularly at a local government level. It s an illogical, contradictory ...
28 Apr 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - MPs have rejected claims by the Local Government Association that local council...local media summit in Westminster, the subject of local government publications proved to be one ...
at the conference that the Government, MPs, local newspaper publishers and local broadcasters need to act quickly ...
publications. The LGA today presented research that concluded local council publications are not a threat ...
20 Aug 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
for local government, Rosie Winterton, to highlight concerns about local council's publications....The letter expresses concern about council publications competing with local media for readers and ad revenue, and the possibility of government withdrawing its advertising from local media. It is a response from the NS to recent comments by Winterton about the important role local councils can play ...
23 Oct 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
and the Government to offer greater flexibility to stations on how and where they produce local content....In its submission to Ofcom's review of local radio rules, a consultation launched in July called "The implications of Digital Britain for localness regulation", RadioCentre said such changes are vital ...
stations to focus on content that is most valued by listeners, such as local news and information ...
19 Nov 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - RadioCentre, the commercial radio trade body, has called on the Government to ensure...the rules around local radio services and multiplex ownership so that all local commercial radio stations in a local area may be owned by one operator. Ofcom also recommended the local cross-media ownership rules were liberalised, so the only restriction is on owning a radio station, 50% or more of the local ...
16 Jun 2009
| by John Reynolds
LONDON - Consolidation is essential in the local newspaper sector and "is not a silver bullet...Speaking to a House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, The Future for Local ...
opportunity." Meanwhile, half of the country's estimated 1,300 local and regional newspapers could close ...
"were most at risk" of closure, but when questioned denied local newspaper owners should have better ...
30 Apr 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
local media....want to advertise at a local level and the Government needs to look at "how legislation and the law can ...
by the Government and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, MPs said they disagreed with local government ...
Speaking at a local media summit held by the Conservatives today (30 April), Hunt said there needs ...
10 Mar 2009
| by Maisie McCabe
of the sector to persuade the Government to abolish local media ownership rules....The sector, which last week formed the Local Media Alliance to make its case to government, plans ...
by consultancy OC C, will map the entire media environment in each local region, to demonstrate why the ownership ...
Society is involved in the alliance, but is not a full member. The Local Media Alliance's research plan ...
12 Feb 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
governing local content in radio....will be key in informing government's thinking on the future of local radio." Myers said: "We know that consumers value local content, particularly on local radio, and that successive governments and regulators ...
Minister Lord Carter to lead a review that will "inform the Government's thinking as it looks towards a ...