The crisis for the UK’s regional newspapers is in its deep winter, and spring feels like a long way off right now. Like its US parent company Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Newsquest is asking staff to take one week’s unpaid leave while DMGT-owned Northcliffe Media is joining a host of publishers…

It’s no exaggeration to say that local newspapers in their printed form are facing the most challenging period of their lives, so it’s only sensible to invest in other media - like the one in everyone’s pocket. Gannett-owned Newsquest Media Group today announces the launch of 148 mobile sites with…

Newsquest’s weekly car classifieds magazine Exchange & Mart is to scrap its print edition and go online-only in February, putting 80 jobs at risk of redundancy as Brand Republic reports. No doubt part of Newsquest’s nation-wide restructuring of its print assets, the mag’s energies will now go into exchangeandmart.co.uk and…

Newsquest’s Herald & Times Group in Glasgow is making 235 journalists redundant and telling them to apply for a reduced number of altered job roles, in a multimedia newsroom restructure. Between 30 and 40 jobs are expected to go as part of on-going plans to merge and centralise the editorial…

More newsroom integration cuts. The UK’s number-two regional news publisher Newsquest is restructuring its editorial department, which could see six staff laid off and 12 edit positions disposed of, reports the Guardian. The redundancies will hit paid-for and free weekly newspapers including the Epping Forest Guardian, Hendon & Finchley Times…