| Type | Holding, Limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media |
| Headquarters | Wolverhampton |
| Products | Broadcasting, Newspapers and Magazines |
Midland News Association is an independent local media business which has interests in print media and the radio industry. It has offices at Queen Street in Wolverhampton and Ketley, Telford.[1]
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MNA operates radio brands in the Shropshire and Worcestershire areas, but have announced that they will be closed down at the end of December 2011:[2]
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In October 2008, following a major restructuring programme to help the company deal with poor trading, Midlands News Association merged the business functions of the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star and the Shropshire Star in order to save £3m. The result was the loss of 120 jobs.[3]
In October 2009, MNA signed a deal with ITN’s multimedia division ITN ON to take video content to use on its newspapers websites. The deal made the company the first local paper group to take up ITN’s services, following in the footsteps of national papers the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.[4]
The final issue of the Ludlow Journal appeared on Friday 2 July 2010.
In June 2010 the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against Mary Queally, editor of the Hereford Journal. The complaint was that Queally published an article in advance of the General Election exonerating MP Bill Wiggin of false expenses claims, even though Wiggin was at the time being investigated by the Parliamentary watchdog. The Commission forced the paper to publish a letter stating the truth. .[5]