The successful Ladder campaigns to boost apprenticeships run by titles including the Evening Standard and Express & Star have resulted in the launch of a nationwide initiative. With the aim of creating 10,000 new jobs and addressing issues of social...

The newly appointed Culture Secretary, Jeremy Wright, spoke at his first Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee hearing yesterday and answered questions on fake news, holding social media platforms to account, and educating the public to better spot fake...

Claudine Collins, managing director of MediaCom UK, will be the headline speaker at the 2018 Local Media Works Awards which celebrate local media’s ability to connect national brands with local communities. The BBC’s Apprentice interviewer, Ms Collins, facilitates better connections...

New guidance drawn up in partnership with the media has been issued to courts and tribunal staff to support and promote access to courts. The guidance, developed by a working group involving media representatives including the NMA, is part of...

The BBC is directly challenging core tabloid journalism by taking away  online traffic from commercial news providers and must be held to account, David Dinsmore has said. Speaking at Press Gazette’s Digital Journalism Summit, Mr Dinsmore said the BBC had...

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has added its influential voice to the growing call for safeguards to protect freedom of speech and journalism to be introduced to the counter terrorism regime.   In a report on the Counter-Terrorism and Border...

The Competition and Markets Authority “actively considering” looking into the digital advertising market which is an area in which it is “interested in getting involved.” Giving evidence to the Lords Communications Committee during its ‘The internet: to regulate or...

The News Media Association and the Professional Publishers Association, the trade body for magazines, are calling on Phillip Hammond to apply zero rating for e-publications in the Budget later this month.  While printed magazines, periodicals books and newspapers attract a...

The winners of this year’s Local Media Works Awards which celebrates the power of local media will be announced at a ceremony in London next month. The shortlisted agencies - PHD, Mediacom Edinburgh, MG OMD, RP2, TCS Media, Spark Foundry...