Regulators have failed in their efforts to force Google and Facebook to change their behaviour through financial penalties as the tech giants continue to entrench their position, The Times technology business editor said today. In a comment piece in The...

Editors have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to review changes to the way Government briefs lobby journalists in Westminster which could damage freedom of the press and curtail scrutiny of the administration. The News Media Association is supporting the lobby...

Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan has said the Government will respond the Cairncross Review “in the coming months” and that promoting the sustainability of high-quality journalism and public service broadcasting “is a big priority for me and my department.” Delivering the...

Newsquest has announced the launch of two new titles in the north of England. Salford City News is a brand new title which will launch in print as a weekly newspaper with the cover price of 80p and online at...

Guardian Media Group has announced that Annette Thomas has been appointed as its new chief executive by the GMG board. Annette has a 25-year track record in leading global publishing and data analytics businesses, across academic, educational and consumer media. She was...

The Manchester Evening News sent a reporter to cover the trials of Manchester student rapist Reynhard Sinaga for more than a year before a story could be published due to reporting restrictions on the case. The paper revealed that it...

Changes to the way the Government briefs political journalists in Westminster could be “hugely damaging to the freedom of the press” by paving the way for an administration to refuse access to journalists it may not approve of. The News...

The Editors’ Code of Practice, under which the majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news sites journalists work, has launched a public consultation. The Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which writes and revises the code of standards policed by the...

News UK, publisher of The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday, has won a legal appeal exempting electronic editions of newspapers from VAT. On appeal, the Upper Tribunal ruled that digital versions were “newspapers” under the...