Hastings' battle to raise the Standard

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The Evening Standard, London's evening newspaper, saw circulation fall by more than 6% in Dec 1995 to only 433,000, with sales down by 2.4% in the six months to the end of 1995. This comes at a time when the circulation market as a whole is rising and when the newspaper faces no competition. This has prompted moves to bring in Max Hastings to revive its fortunes. He has already been successful at the Daily Telegraph, and is now meeting with reporters and executives at the Evening Standard to discuss strategy.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, The London Evening Standard (Newspaper), Hastings, Max

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Decision time for Pearson

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There is strong speculation that there will be a change in strategy at media and information concern Pearson, which has interests including Thames Television and Penguin Books. The company has a new management team under chief executive Marjorie Scardino, who is now under strong pressure to give some indication as to what the company will look like after the anticipated restructuring. It is strange that the company is attracting so much interest, given that its performance in 1996 was rather patchy.

Television broadcasting industry, Pearson PLC

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Pressing on with building a regional newspaper empire

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Regional newspaper group Newsquest will undertake some consolidation following its recent purchase of Westminster Press, according to Jim Brown, head of Newsquest. He now controls the largest local newspaper group in the UK, an operation which is worth 500 million pounds sterling. He remains firmly committed to the UK's 2.5 billion pounds sterling regional newspaper business, but believes that only the largest operators will survive.

Officials and employees, Interview, Newsquest Media Group Ltd., Brown, Jim (American actor)

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