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A significant and positive step today for our colleagues at Brightsolid and Synergi as they begin the new financial year together as one team! This thoughtful integration reflects the talent, collaboration and dedication shown across both businesses over the past year. As part of the wider DC Thomson group, we’re proud to support this next stage and look forward to seeing the combined strengths of the team shape what comes next. Well done everyone! 👏

As our energy brands continue to grow across the UK, our E‑FWD editor Ed Reed is increasingly in demand as a sector expert. This week he joined Naga Munchetty on BBC Radio 5 Live, speaking eloquently about the Middle East crisis and its implications for energy. It’s a great example of our mission to position Energy Voice to cover the UK energy supply chain and E‑FWD to convene it. Listen from 01:21:45–01:25:00: https://lnkd.in/eVSFUjra #EnergyVoice #EFWD #DCThomson #Energy #UKEnergy #LifeatDCThomson

Exciting news from our technology business, Brightsolid! The second generation of Brightsolid Cloud is now live - bringing more performance, more flexibility and fully UK‑sovereign security to organisations ready to grow and modernise with confidence 💪 Find out more via the link below.

🎉 Dennis the Menace is celebrating 75 years of mischief today, and what better way to mark the occasion than by throwing the ultimate birthday bash?   Since first storming into the pages of the Beano Studios in 1951, the much‑loved comic strip character has entertained readers of all ages with his smart antics.   Now, for this special milestone, Dennis has invited 75 of the world’s biggest creative mischief-makers to join in the fun, as voted for by kids across the UK.   The celebration also ties in with the National Year of Reading, making it the perfect moment to dive back into one of Britain’s most treasured comics.   Can you spot any familiar faces in this star‑studded, eight‑page fold‑out cover — the first of its kind in Beano Studios history? Read more in the comments ⤵️

⛳ A brilliant end to Scottish Golf Tourism Week in association with Luxe Scot last night, with the Scottish Golf Tourism Awards celebrating the people and places powering one of Scotland’s most important industries.   A huge well done to our team (some of who are pictured below) who helped make it all happen!   At DC Thomson, we are proud to support and champion tourism in Scotland. Our Chief Growth Officer, Owen Wyatt summed it up perfectly: “Tourism keeps communities, jobs and local economies alive right across the country, and if we are serious about understanding Scotland’s economy, we have to be serious about the sectors that power it.”   You can check out the full story, including the list of winners and highlights in the comments. 👇

Delighted to welcome Mike Soutar back to DC Thomson HQ to revisit where his career in journalism and passion for business and leadership began. A dig into the archives with our chief growth officer Owen Wyatt to find his very first printed prose highlighted just how far his career and growth and innovation at DC Thomson have come.

Over the last few years you will have seen me saying that if you want good local news then you need to pay for it. In the days of print the cover price (the money you paid the shopkeeper when you bought the paper) and advertising paid the wages of the journalists who wrote the stories and the other teams who helped ensure the paper got to market. Now – in an age when most readers access journalism online – it’s your monthly digital subscription as well as advertising that supports the creation of the news, sport and features that appear on our sites and apps every day while print cover price still plays a hugely important role. But why should you pay? Well, without the funding from your digital subs it becomes impossible to produce well-sourced, trusted, and responsible journalism that works to improve our communities by highlighting successes, exposing problems and fighting for change. Today the Press and Journal publishes an in-depth investigation into a well-known businessman with links to Aberdeen and Dundee. Such journalism is expensive to produce. A reporter involved in such a story may work on it for days, weeks or in some cases even months. Legal work also takes places to ensure the report is fair and accurate. That also takes time and costs money. Other publishers may look at such work and argue that the effort isn’t worth the cost. For them, it may be more cost-effective for a reporter to write multiple stories in the time it would take Dale or one of his colleagues to produce an investigation or run a campaign. At The Courier and The Press and Journal we will do what is right for the reader and the community at large. If the story, campaign or investigation is important enough then the effort is always worth it. Craig Walker Dale Haslam Owen Wyatt Tom Miller WAN IFRA Innovate Local https://lnkd.in/efrU5YNj

Wonderful to welcome the award-winning author Elizabeth Buchan to DC Thomson to share her thoughts on the role of research, history and women’s voices in shaping contemporary storytelling. Drawing on her experience of using Findmypast, she reflected on discovering her own family history, how she researched her historical novel Two Women in Rome, the responsibility of handling historical facts with care, and why knowledge of the past matters today. Thanks to the team at Findmypast’s Culture Lab for organising a great event to celebrate International Women’s Day, World Book Day and the National Year of Reading.  #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearOfReading2026 #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #WorldBookDay #LifeatDCThomson

The Stylist Group is turning audience insight into classroom action with an exciting Lessons that Matter campaign across digital, print, video and outranet for International Women's Day. #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #insights #brandcampaigns #LifeatDCThomson