Archant is launching a new unit called Archant Ventures to champion local entrepreneurship within the community. Archant Ventures will invest in local organisations that show real growth potential – to accelerate their success, create new jobs and make a positive...

Julian Knight MP has called for an exemption for news publishers from the  online harms regime to ensure that freedom of the press is not damaged by the new regime. In a letter to Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, the chairman of...

Tributes have been paid to press freedom campaigner Patsy Robertson, who worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat for almost 30 years under three Secretaries-General, after she died last week aged 86. After graduating in New York at the end of the...

A Local Democracy Reporter used her experience of reporting on local politics in Oldham to get the inside track as fears mounted that the town would be locked down following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. In a piece for...

Google is facing a growing backlash over its response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s draft news media bargaining code which is designed to address acute bargaining power imbalances between news businesses and the platforms. In response to an...

The News Media Association has welcomed Government commitments to press freedom and assurances that online newspapers will remain outside of the regime for video sharing regulation. Responding to Ofcom’s call for evidence on video sharing regulation, the NMA said it...

The public have “relied heavily” on local news media to “cut through the noise and hold decision makers to account” during the coronavirus pandemic, Shadow Transport Secretary Jim McMahon has said. The MP for Oldham West & Royton said that...

 2.2m extra people visited local news websites in June this year, compared to January, according to new Comscore figures, the Press Gazette has reported. The total number of monthly unique visitors jumped from 39.4m in January to 41.6m in June....

The News Media Association is looking to recruit a policy and regulatory affairs adviser to contribute to the NMA’s representational work on industry issues in Westminster and Whitehall. The post becomes available when our current adviser Sofia Pesce leaves the...