An executive with Independent News and Media is in the High Court trying to stop his dismissal.

The chairman of the board of Independent News and Media has been voted off at todays AGM in Citywest in Dublin.

Independent News & Media has announced that it is to close its Dublin head office and its London office as part of cost-cutting measures.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said that any attempt by Denis O'Brien to take control of Independent News & Media (INM) would be a matter for the Competition Authority.

Denis O'Brien has further increased his stake in Independent News and Media.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said that undue concentration of media ownership is not acceptable.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares closed up 0.69% at 3,232 points.

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte said today that he would be concerned about anyone having an undue share of the ownership of Irish media.

Gavin O'Reilly is to depart as chief executive of Independent News & Media, the company has confirmed.

Independent News & Media has reported operating profits of €75.5m for the year to end December, 2011, a fall of 8.6% on 2010.

The editor of the Sunday Independent, Aengus Fanning, died this morning. He was 69 years old.

Businessman Denis O'Brien is today calling for Independent News and Media CEO Gavin O'Reilly to step down, after the company issued a warning that profits for this year are likely to fall short of targets.

A former senior director of Independent News and Media who was voted off the company's board yesterday, has criticised the company's chief executive Gavin O'Reilly.

Independent News and Media has announced a 14% rise in underlying operating profit for 2010.

Brett Chenoweth has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of APN News & Media, one of the largest media groups in Australisia in which Independent News & Media (INM) has a 31.6% shareholding.

Shareholders at Independent News and Media have overwhelmingly rejected two resolutions which would have seen major change at the top of the company.

Global newspaper circulation rose nearly 2% in 2006 and the number of newspaper titles also increased significantly, according to provisional data revealed today by the World Association of Newspapers.

IRISH newspaper and publishing group Independent News & Media (INM) expects cost cuts and rising advertising revenue from growing markets to boost its operating margin to 20% by mid-2007, top executives said on Friday.

AIB led the charge today as the ISEQ index of shares gained 31.73 points in early trading to stand at 6447.72.

AN increase of 13.5% in spend pushed advertising in national newspapers to a record €287 million in 2004.

INDEPENDENT News & Media has bowed to investor pressure and separated the roles of chairman and chief executive.

INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA (INM) is set to relocate back-office jobs from Ireland to South Africa as part of the newspaper publisher's plans to cut costs and improve profits.

EVERY second day an American soldier is killed in Iraq, but this and almost daily attacks on US forces are not reported in the West, Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk told the World Association of Newspapers congress in Dublin yesterday.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to address the 56th World Newspaper Congress at the RDS in Dublin later today.

ADVERTISING spend in national newspaper titles made a dramatic recovery in the second half of last year but still fell 5.9% to €254 million for the year, figures released yesterday reveal.

INDEPENDENT News & Media (INM) is to increase dividends to shareholders by 5.5% despite reporting a 10.2% decline in profits for the first sixth months of the year.