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SWNS Media Group is a UK based media company with two divisions,
In 2023, SWNS Media Group's 72Point faced criticism over the transparency and ethics of its content generation practices following the discovery of articles attributed to 72Point's staff members on news websites.
news agency
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SWNS (also known as South West News Service) and creative agency 72Point. The group operates a number of brands including OATH, OnePoll, Talk to the Press, Pinpep, LoveThis.News, Content Covered and Play.
The company operates from offices in London
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and Bristol
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. As of 2024, SWNS Media Group employed around 150 staff including 50 producing editorial for SWNS.
History
SWNS Media Group was founded as the Bristol Agency in the early 1970s by Roland Arblaster. It is now run bydirectors
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Andrew Young, Paul Walters and Martin Winter.
In 2010 SWNS launched the website SWNS.com (Small World News Service) as a first hand source of current affairs and general interest news.
In 2016 SWNS acquired the regional agencies Masons News Service, Newsteam International, Ross Parry, National News, Centre Press and Northscot.
SWNS previous had a relationship with the alternative news website venture The London Economic
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, though it was understood not to leverage any editorial control.
Notable previous employees include Times editor Tony Gallagher, Telegraph editor Chris Evans, former Sun editor Stuart Higgins Stuart Higgins (born c. 1956)Andy Becket ''The Independent on Sunday'', 13 October 1996 is a British public relations consultant and former newspaper editor.
In 1972 Higgins left school in Kingswood, on the outskirts of Bristol, and began his care ...
, former Sunday Telegraph editor Ian MacGregor
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, former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver
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Weaver started her career at the South West News Service, then worked for the '' Sunday People'' from 1989 to 1992 becoming Chief Reporter before spending a year at the ''D ...
, Sky News correspondent Tamara Cohen
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Early life and education
Cohen attended the University of Oxford where she studied for a Bachelor of A ...
and former Downing Street Director of Communications Lee Cain
Lee Edward Cain (born 1981) is a British public relations professional and former journalist who served as Downing Street Director of Communications under Boris Johnson from July 2019 until the end of 2020.
Education
Cain attended Ormskirk Gr ...
.
Criticism
In 2023, SWNS Media Group's 72Point faced criticism over the transparency and ethics of its content generation practices following the discovery of articles attributed to 72Point's staff members on news websites.
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External links
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