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PPA Awards for editorial and publishing excellence - winners revealed
Magazine Week links up with the National Year of Reading
Government review urges postal shake-up
The Olympics offers magazine publishers 'the perfect story'
Knowing your customer is the key to success
The global opportunity
SEO core of Times’ digital operation
Ideal climate for newstrade collaboration
Editing to win? Don’t forget your reader
Facing the opportunities
Digital strategy our ‘roadmap’ to the future
APAX and GMG invested for growth
'FT recession’ with a mass market impact
Independent publishers awarded
'Fit for the future' conference opens with jobs board announcement
Harness the power of the personal
How to stretch a brand without losing its impact
Government’s 'own goals' damaging Britain’s economic interests
Protecting content the ACAP Way
Know what you want to do online. Then tell your customers.
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The winners of the 28th PPA editorial and publishing excellence awards were announced last night, Wednesday 7 May, with Bauer London Lifestyle’s Grazia magazine, Incisive Media’s Legal Week and Seven Squared’s Asos.com winning the top prizes in their respective categories. 
Opening the consumer facing day two of Magazines and Business Media 2008, PPA chief executive Jonathan Shepherd announced that PPA through Magazine Week would be linking up with the National Year of Reading to promote magazines as a way to boost literacy. 
A major shake-up is needed in the way the industry is regulated if Britain is to benefit from a strong, competitive and cost-effective postal services. This was one of the key findings from an independent review of the postal market commissioned by the Government. 
The 2012 Olympic Games, the most complex piece of project management in history, provides magazine publishers with an opportunity to tell the 'perfect stories' and reach out to young people, according to Lord Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic games. 
Getting to know your readers and understanding how they want to be communicated to is critical to building and retaining subscribers according to new research presented to the Magazines and Business Media conference. Jim Bilton of Wessenden Marketing presented the full findings from the Beyond the Subscription: Tracking the customer journey research. 
"Great content doesn’t come cheap" according to Stevie Spring, chief executive of Future Publishing. Speaking about the global opportunity for publishers at PPA’s Magazines and Business Media conference today (7 May)Spring said that nearly 40 per cent of Future Publishing’s revenues came from outside the UK.
“SEO people have become the core of our digital operation” whose insight travels “through our entire business” according to Times Online editor-in-chief Anne Spackman, speaking at AOP’s digital seminar session on search at PPA’s Magazines 2008 Conference.
A tough business climate provides the ideal conditions for the newstrade to pull together to protect and promote the magazine category as a whole. This was the consensus at yesterday’s retail seminar held as part of Magazines and Business Media 2008.
Face to face (F2F) is a ‘pioneering media’, and business media companies are realising the great opportunities that having a conference division can bring, according to Ruth Carter, managing director of CMP information at a brand new seminar stream on face to face at the Magazines and Business Media conference.
Business media publishers’ digital ‘roadmap’ to the future has changed over the last two years according to Paul Way, digital strategy director at CMP Information during the delivery technology and technology session at Magazines and Business Media. 
APAX and GMG’s principle interest in investing in emap is driving growth with the aim of turning the UK publishing behemoth into one of the biggest business media players in the world. This was the message from Stephen Grabiner, media partner at APAX and Carolyn McCall, CEO of GMG in the keynote address to the Magazines and Business Media Conference. 
We are in the midst of a ‘growth recession’ with the forecast for the next two years remaining tough, according to Ross Walker, RBS’s chief economist, addressing some 400 conference delegates at Magazines and Business Media 2008. 
Green Pea Publishing was named Independent publishing company of the year at this year's Independent Publishers' Awards ceremony. Hosted during Magazines and Business Media 2008 today, 6 May, the awards celebrate the dynamic contribution made to the publishing industry and the enterpreneurial spirit of smaller publishers. 
Opening the Magazines and Business Media 2008 conference today PPA chief executive Jonathan Shephard announced the launch of a new PPA jobs board enabling PPA members to access job information at a low cost. 
Data publishers were challenged to harness the person-centric nature of mobile phones as a medium for connecting with consumers at the Data Publishers Association (DPA) seminar at conference.
The UK Government is gaining a reputation for swinging unpleasant surprises on business, which could have a damaging long term effect on foreign invesment and the economy, according to John Cridland, deputy general of the CBI. 
An industry-led method to ensure online content is gathered in the way publishers want can only work if enough publishers embrace the technology, according to Dominic Young of ACAP.