Two IMPRESS board members have been recused from an investigation into an article by the Canary about the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg after they shared social media posts accusing her of being a propagandist for the Conservative Party. A...

Major advertisers are putting transparency at the top of the agenda following widespread concerns about brand safety and audience measurement in the digital environment, according to Campaign’s head of media Gideon Spanier.     In a piece for Campaign this week,...

Jason Kint, Digital Content Next chief executive, has launched a scathing point by point rebuttal to Google UK and Ireland managing director Ronan Harris’ speech at the Society of Editors Conference in which he said suggestions that Google was...

Rocket has scooped the top award at the Local Media Weeks Awards which celebrate the role of highly trusted local media as a powerful and transparent medium for national advertisers in a climate where brand safety and context are...

George Osborne has said that he is optimistic about the future of newspapers because of the increased “thirst for news” and he hopes to be editor of the Evening Standard “for many years to come.” In a wide-ranging interview with...

Attempts to use the Data Protection Bill to punish news outlets that refuse to sign up to state-sponsored regulation are “grossly irresponsible” and must be rejected, Lord Black of Brentwood told the House of Lords this week. Speaking in a...

The value chain of the digital news environment is unfairly skewed in favour of those who aggregate and distribute content at zero cost, to the detriment of publishers who produce it at considerable financial and legal risk, the News...

Tony Hall has spoken of the importance of the Local News Partnership between the BBC and the News Media Association to strengthening news coverage in local communities and upholding local democracy. In a speech in Coventry last night, the BBC...

GSK’s media director for Europe Andy Bolden, a judge for this year’s Local Media Works Awards, has said that it is “critical” for national advertisers to use local newsbrands amid widespread concern around brand safety and audience measurement in...