Peers have called for the extension of the Freedom of Information Act to cover private contractors performing public services, quoting the News Media Association’s support for reform of the legislation in a parliamentary debate. Tabling a question for short debate,...

Facebook is to pay $5 billion, the largest ever civil penalty in a United States data privacy case, to settle allegations that it misled users about the extent to which third-party application developers could access users’ personal information.   The Department...

Councillors in Wirral have voted to axe the council’s monthly newspaper Wirral View stating that more than £400,000 had been wasted on a publication which had “failed against every measure the cabinet set for it.” The council faced a backlash...

Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, has been appointed Culture Secretary in last night’s Cabinet reshuffle. Ms Morgan served as Education Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2014 until 14 July 2016. During that time, she was the guest...

Past Making a Difference winning campaigns are continuing to support and improve local communities such as The News and Star’s hospital campaign #SaveOurServices, and The Dundee Courier and Advertiser’s dementia campaign, Franks Law. Making a Difference, run by Local Media...

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland have announced the launch of the new media freedom coalition following the global conference for media freedom last week. The coalition will be formed by Governments who sign up to a...

MPs from all the main parties have voiced press freedom fears after police launched an inquiry to identify the source of the leak of the British Ambassador to the Unites States’s memos which have been widely reported in the...

 Reach Plc chief financial officer, Simon Fuller, has responded to JPi Media acquisition speculation in a statement that was released on the London Stock Exchange. The response stated: “The Board of Reach plc ("Reach" or the "Company") notes the recent...

The Government has committed to producing a report on defamation in Northern Ireland after peers from different parties called for the regime to be brought into line with England and Wales to crack down on libel tourism and the...