Newspapers

Circulation of quality dailies in April experienced a rare uplift as readers hit the newsstands to read coverage following the death of Margaret Thatcher.

Polestar has won the contract to print two weekly supplements for Independent Print, publisher of <i>The Independent</i>.

Manroland Web Systems has launched the FoldLine and FormerLine systems for high volume digital production, described as "futureproof" for its technology-forward speeds.

The Caerphilly Observer, a website covering news from the Welsh county, is to launch a print edition in response to demand from its readers for a paper counterpart.

News International has agreed to pay Johnston Press £10m to prematurely terminate the last printing contract between the two publishers.

Former Financial Times chairman Sir David Bell warned that the newspaper industry had a real fight on its hands as he gave the Stationers' Company Annual Lecture.

Johnston Press' contract printing revenues have been slashed by a third following the termination of News International's contract, according to its 2012 financial reports.

Trinity Mirror recorded a 1.7% increase in print revenues in 2012 to 66.3m (2011: 65.2m) on the back of a 2.6m increase in contract print revenues to 36.7m.

Axel Springer has ordered a further 19 Kodak Prosper S30 inkjet printheads from Manroland Web Systems as it continues to roll out its hybrid printing investment across all of its German printing...

All bar two regional daily newspapers suffered a drop in circulation in the six months to December 2012 compared to the previous year, recent ABC figures show.

Trinity Mirror is to bolster its <i>Birmingham Mail</i> newspaper with an additional 50,000 free Friday copies in a bid to boost its readership.