Bullivant Media has seen the weekly podcasts for three of their Worcestershire titles – the Redditch Standard, Bromsgrove Standard and the Worcester Observer grow in popularity since launching in March 2018. Claire Bullivant, a journalist who divides her time between...

The News Media Association has launched a new campaign called Journalism Matters to highlight the vital role journalism plays in our society.  Replacing Local Newspaper Week, the new campaign will be spearheaded by the local media sector. During the week 13...

Philip Hammond has become the latest senior figure to call for a Competition and Markets Authority investigation into the digital advertising marketplace, saying that the body should prioritise the issue. Following the publication of the Furman report, which aligned closely...

News Corp Australia has called for a range of remedies to break the tech giants’ stranglehold on the of digital advertising marketplace which undermines the funding of news and journalism, including the breakup of Google and a licence fee...

The publishing industry representing the publishers of newspapers, books, journals and magazines has joined forces to call on Chancellor Philip Hammond to urgently bring the UK into the digital age by axing the reading tax on digital publications. In a...

The NMA said: “The NMA gave evidence to Jason Furman and his panel and we welcome today’s report which concludes that the tech giants have simply become too dominant and the market must now be opened up to ensure...

Ofcom is to examine whether the BBC’s online content is sufficiently distinct from newspapers as part of a review into the corporation’s news and current affairs output, the regulator announced this week. Announcing the terms of reference for the review,...

The principles of open justice must not be curtailed by any new reporting restrictions designed to prevent criminal trials being affected by social media usage, the News Media Association has said. The Attorney General’s Office’s response to its call for...

The Government has rejected a bid to make it unlawful for the identity of an arrested person to be published before they were charged with an offence, saying the existing arrangements “strike a sensible balance.”   Speaking this week in a...