The Star’s Molly Williams has won the inaugural Cathryn Nicoll Award set up by the News Media Association to reward brilliant interviewing and feature writing by young regional press journalists. Molly, a Local Democracy Reporter for The Star, Sheffield, and...

Members of the House of Lords highlighted the rise of attacks on journalists internationally and discussed the UK’s role promoting media freedom in a short debate on the effectiveness of national and international measures to curb attacks on journalists and...

The winner of the inaugural Cathryn Nicoll Award which has been set up to highlight and reward brilliant interviewing and feature writing by young journalists will be revealed tomorrow at the Regional Press Awards. Run by the Society of Editors,...

A new awards scheme to highlight the best local public interest journalism produced by Local Democracy Reporters since the launch of the Local News Partnership has been launched.  The BBC, working with local publishers and the News Media Association, is to...

The News Media Assocation is to move offices at the end of next week. The NMA will leave its current Vauxhall Bridge Road headquarters next Friday and start operating in the new premises on New Bridge Street, London, the...

Jeremy Hunt has given his backing to Journalism Matters saying that he hopes the the News Media Association's campaign "will help us all to champion the importance of media freedom."  In a message of support for the campaign today, the Foreign...

In an article for Journalism Matters, the News Media Assocation's new campaign to promote news media journalism, NMA chairman David Dinsmore has called for the benefits of journalism to society to be properly acknowledged. He said: "The ability of journalists...

The era in which social media companies have considered themselves above the law and behaved like “digital gangsters” is coming to an end with the introduction of effective independent regulation, Damian Collins has said. The chair of the Commons Digital,...

Dame Frances Cairncross will attend the NMA Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 14 May to discuss with publishers her report into the sustainable future of journalism. The NMA welcomed the report when it was released in February and has been...