Investors fear phone-hacking scandal will spread - Financial Times
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:20Analysts said Johnston Press, the regional publisher which owns the Yorkshire Post, was shielded from the scandal as it did not have any national papers. The closure of the News of the World removed more than a quarter of the total sales of Sunday ...
NoW rivals see share prices jump - BBC News
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:03Regional publisher Johnston Press was up 7.62%. The News of the World had a weekly circulation of 2.6 million. This Sunday's edition will be its last, News International's James Murdoch announced on Thursday. The group said it would open its News of ...
Small caps: Johnston Press falls 9% - Financial Times
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:09Johnston Press, the regional newspapers group, fell 8.7 per cent to 5¼p after Daily Mail & General Trust announced a rise in the cover price for its flagship publication, The Daily Mail, to offset a slowdown in advertising revenue. ...
Indefinite strike at South Yorkshire Press - Socialistworker.co.uk
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:42"Johnston Press borrowed almost £1 billion to acquire local papers. They use the slogan, 'Life is local'. But what they did was centralise and asset strip. Things went OK for them until they got burned in 2008. Share prices plummeted. ...
Six hidden small-cap recovery gems - Investors Chronicle
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:53An apparently cheap share price is often a sign of an unfolding disaster rather than a turnaround play where the fundamentals can be trusted or even underestimate what is on offer. Fortunately, back in 2000 an American accountancy professor, ...