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Tennis player sues Daily Mail, Evening Standard and Independent on Sunday
From Media Guardian. Posted June 11 2008, 8.48am
A British tennis player has started libel proceedings against three media organisations after he was called the world's worst professional in his sport. By Ben Dowell (more)

Evening Standard merges newsdesk with London Lite
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2008, 12.00am
The London Evening Standard and London Lite have merged their newsdesk operations – a move that has seen the departure of London Lite news editor Michael Leese. (more)

London Evening Standard and London Lite streamline news desks
From Media Guardian. Posted June 9 2008, 6.06am
The London Evening Standard and London Lite are merging news desk and some production operations. By Stephen Brook (more)

ABCs Dailies: Only The Sun and the Evening Standard put on sales in May
From Press Gazette. Posted June 6 2008, 12.00am
The Sun and the London Evening Standard were the only two British national daily newspapers to increase their year-on-year sales in May, with the sector as a whole down 2.82 per cent. (more)

Media role axed in London Evening Standard reshuffle
From Media Guardian. Posted May 12 2008, 11.59am
The London Evening Standard is to abolish the position of media correspondent as part of a newsroom reorganisation. By Ben Dowell (more)

Evening Standard's Robert Jobson named News of the World royal editor
From Media Guardian. Posted April 30 2008, 8.25am
Evening Standard royal correspondent Robert Jobson is joining the News of the World as royal editor after seven years at the Associated title. By Ben Dowell (more)

March ABCs: Evening Standard sees March sales dip
From Media Guardian. Posted April 11 2008, 2.17pm
The London Evening Standard's circulation dropped again last month, with the Associated Newspapers title down by more than 4,000 copies. By Jemima Kiss (more)

PCC raps Evening Standard over climate camp Heathrow threat story
From Press Gazette. Posted March 19 2008, 12.00am
The London Evening Standard was today criticised for a “serious breach” of the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice over a story that warned protesters were to bring Heathrow airport to a standstill. (more)

Livingstone aide quits after Evening Standard investigation
From Press Gazette. Posted March 5 2008, 12.00am
One of London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s closest advisors has quit following a three-month investigation by the London Evening Standard in which the paper has made a string of allegations of financial impropriety. (more)

Evening Standard editor backs Gilligan
From Media Guardian. Posted December 14 2007, 1.01pm
The London Evening Standard editor, Veronica Wadley, has given reporter Andrew Gilligan her full support in his row with Ken Livingstone. By Stephen Brook (more)

November ABCs: Evening Standard battles back
From Press Gazette. Posted December 7 2007, 12.00am
The Evening Standard’s fortunes have turned around after its long-standing sales battering from thelondonpaper and London Lite. (more)

London Evening Standard clamps down on expenses
From Media Guardian. Posted November 23 2007, 4.50pm
The London Evening Standard has imposed restrictions on taxis and meals for journalists. By Ben Dowell and Stephen Brook (more)

From billboards to plasma screens - new Evening Standard marketing push
From Press Gazette. Posted September 28 2007, 12.00am
The Evening Standard beings its new financial year on Monday with a major investment in the distribution and marketing of the paper. (more)

New Evening Standard unveils marketing push
From Press Gazette. Posted September 28 2007, 12.00am
The London Evening Standard begins its new financial year on Monday with a major investment in the distribution and marketing of the paper. (more)

Evening Standard launches news website
From Press Gazette. Posted September 24 2007, 12.00am
The Evening Standard has launched a news website at Standard.co.uk. The site will include Standard columnists and blogs by its journalists and will offer a City email bulletin and a podcast. (more)

Evening Standard launches news site
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted September 24 2007, 12.00am
Standard.co.uk to feature news and campaigns from print edition    (more)

Lafferty departs Evening Standard
From Brand Republic. Posted August 31 2007, 12.50pm
LONDON - Stephen Lafferty, head of trading at the Evening Standard, is understood to have left the newspaper at the behest of advertising director Rosemary Gorman. (more)

Football club bans Evening Standard from home matches
From Press Gazette. Posted August 28 2007, 12.00am
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has banned the Evening Standard from covering home matches and press conferences saying “enough is enough” after it received heavy criticism for recent behaviour. (more)

Pierre White seeks £100k from Evening Standard
From Press Gazette. Posted July 16 2007, 12.00am
Chef Marco Pierre White is seeking libel damages of £100,000 from Associated Newspapers. (more)

Evening Standard nursing home libel case collapses
From Press Gazette. Posted March 1 2007, 2.25pm
2.30pm: Associated Newspapers has beaten off a case brought by a nursing home owner who claimed the Evening Standard libelled her. (more)

Former Telegraph night editor joins Evening Standard
From Media Guardian. Posted February 22 2007, 12.00am
3.15pm: The revolving door between the Daily Telegraph and Associated Newspapers continued to operate this week. By Stephen Brook. (more)

Video: Evening Standard vs London free papers
From Press Gazette. Posted January 18 2007, 12.38pm
As the Standard posts a 27% year-on-year paid-for decline, we hit the streets to gauge reaction on the London frees. (more)

Evening Standard in FOI appeal to info chief Richard Thomas
From Press Gazette. Posted January 5 2007, 1.00pm
The Evening Standard is leading an attack on government attempts to keep secret information at a hearing before the Information Tribunal. (more)

Hardy replaced as Evening Standard MD by NI's Mullins
From Press Gazette. Posted November 20 2006, 10.16am
Former Sunday Times marketing director Andrew Mullins has been made managing director of the Evening Standard replacing newspaper legend Bert Hardy. (more)

Mayor challenges suspension over Evening Standard reporter 'concentration camp guard' jibe
From Press Gazette. Posted October 4 2006, 11.56am
London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone today launched a High Court challenge to the decision to suspend him from office for four weeks for likening a Jewish reporter from the London Evening Standard to a concentration camp guard. The Standards Board for England found Livingstone’s comments to be “unnecessarily insensitive and offensive”, and sufficient to bring the office of the Mayor of London into disrepute. However, he claims that finding was “wholly untenable”. He appeals against both that finding and the decision to impose a four week suspension. He is asking one of the country’s top judges, Mr Justice Collins, to quash the decisions, made by a three-man panel in February after a complaint by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The complaint followed the incident at a party, at which Mr Livingstone asked Evening Standard reporter if he was German war criminal and then said he was like a concentration camp guard. Opening the case today, Mr Livingstone’s counsel James Maurici told the court: “Finding what was said was of sufficient gravity to bring the office of Mayor into disrepute is wholly untenable.” He said that the Board of Deputies “never wanted or intended that a suspension should result” from what had happened. The hearing which is scheduled to last four days continues. (more)

The free paper: Can the 'Evening Standard' survive it?
From The Independent. Posted September 17 2006, 12.00am
You wouldn't want to be Veronica Wadley just now. The editor of the Evening Standard is trying to maintain the sales of her newspaper while, to put it in horseracing terms, being saddled with a big handicap. That is the 800,000 copies of two new titles - one of them, London Lite, from her own publisher - being given away in the centre of her circulation area. (more)

Evening Standard man comes in as Telegraph dep ed
From Press Gazette. Posted July 12 2006, 4.42pm
Telegraph Group has announced the appointment of a new joint deputy editor – Ian MacGregor – who replaces Neil Darbyshire. (more)

Evening Standard man comes in as Telegraph deputy editor
From Press Gazette. Posted July 12 2006, 4.42pm
Telegraph Group has announced the appointment of a new joint deputy editor – Ian MacGregor – who replaces Neil Darbyshire. (more)

Evening Standard ad sales director Brydon departs
From Brand Republic. Posted June 21 2006, 11.06am
LONDON - Alan Brydon, the Evening Standard's advertising sales director, has left the newspaper after nearly four years in the post. (more)

Ramsay wins libel action against Evening Standard
From Brand Republic. Posted June 20 2006, 12.06pm
LONDON - Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay has recieved �75,000 libel damages for claims in the Evening Standard that he faked his TV show 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares'. (more)

Slur on celebrity chef to cost Evening Standard £100,000
From Press Gazette. Posted June 20 2006, 11.42am
The London Evening Standard was left facing a £100,000 libel damages and legal costs bill over a slur it cast on celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's hit programme Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. (more)

Slur on celebrity chef to cost Evening Standard £100,000
From Press Gazette. Posted June 20 2006, 11.42am
The London Evening Standard was left facing a £100,000 libel damages and legal costs bill over a slur it cast on celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's hit programme Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. (more)

Full colour redesign for the Evening Standard
From Press Gazette. Posted May 2 2006, 11.15am
The Evening Standard unveils a new look this afternoon which sees the paper move to full colour for the first time in its 165-year history. (more)