The Sun has launched a trainee scheme to increase the diversity of its talent and is looking for budding journalists from all walks of life, with or without training or degrees. The group will join a journalism bootcamp at News Associates...

The BBC’s pioneering partnership with the News Media Association and local news organisations could be significantly expanded - with the number of journalists working on it increased and new services offered. The Local News Partnership already funds 150 journalists to hold local...

The tech platforms “do not consider” the impact of their activities on newspaper publishers, as their market power and use of news media content erodes news providers’ revenues and damages high quality journalism, a new report from Ofcom has...

Peers have highlighted News Media Association concerns around proposals to shroud healthcare investigations in secrecy which would neuter news media’s vital work holding  services to account and damage public confidence in the NHS. In a debate, on the Health Service Safety...

DC Thomson and The Stylist Group has joined The Ozone Project – the digital advertising collaboration between News UK, Reach, The Telegraph and Guardian Media Group. The addition of DC Thomson’s portfolio of websites means that Ozone will increase its...

Baylis Media has launched a digital archive featuring more than 200 years of local news from its portfolio of titles. The Baylis Media Ltd ePaper and Archive is an online portal which holds printed editions of the Advertiser from 1870,...

The Sun TV Mag removed its inner plastic polybagging across the UK and Irish editions, removing 350 tonnes of single-use plastic per year from the Saturday issue. Meanwhile The Sun on Sunday is also phasing out single-use plastic by the...

The Commission for Countering Extremism praised the Sunderland Echo as a “trusted voice” and welcomed its ‘careful’ and considered approach responding to far-right protests in a report entitled ‘Challenging Hateful Extremism.’ Sunderland was...

The BBC and the News Media Association have agreed to open the Local News Partnership Scheme to news platforms aimed at ethnic minority audiences, having previously been focused on geographical areas. Launched at the beginning of 2018, the Local News...