The Department for Work and Pensions is running their Universal Credit campaign with Featurelink for three weeks to announce changes to their benefit schemes. The Local Media Works' Featurelink service creates branded features in local news brands across the UK to complement...
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Alastair Campbell has urged members of the public to urge their MP to vote against clauses in the Data Protection Bill which would force newspapers to pay the legal costs of claimants in data protection actions, even if their...
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The Government has restated its commitment to clamping down on council newspapers and creating an environment which supports local media after the News Media Association raised concerns about an apparent retreat from its position. The News Media Association wrote to...
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The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt Hancock, announced today that the Government will formally close the Leveson Inquiry and will not commence Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and will seek...
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IMPRESS members are considering pulling of state-sponsored regulator following widely reported allegations about Max Mosley whose trust supports the regulator financially via a charity, The Times reported this morning. The Times reported that a number of IMPRESS members were considering...
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Local press in print and digital is the most trusted source for local news and information, way ahead of search engines and social media, according to new YouGov research published for the first time today. Commissioned by Local Media...
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David Higgerson, digital publishing director, Trinity Mirror Regionals, has hit out out a BBC report into the local media industry, labelling the piece "horrendously inaccurate," "one-sided" and harmful to the local media sector. Writing in his blog this week David said...
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CN Group has announced that the publisher is in the process of being sold to Newsquest, with completion expected shortly after the shareholder meeting on 9 March, subject to shareholder approval. In a press release today, CN Group said that...
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