BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead told MPs this week that the Trust has been encouraging the BBC to work with the local press industry and explore partnership initiatives such as a “data bank” of BBC local news or a...

Tower Hamlets is to axe flagship council newspaper East End Life following a sustained campaign against council papers which compete against independent commercial local news media by the News Media Association. The Evening Standard reported this week that Tower Hamlets...

Sir Keir Starmer has quoted the News Media Association’s submission to the committee considering the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, saying the current regulatory framework “poses a threat to journalism, journalists and their sources.” The Joint Committee considering the Draft...

News Media Association members are invited to attend the launch of News Media Europe at an event in Brussels later this month. Hosted by incoming president of NME, Fernando de Yarza Lopez, chief executive of Grupo Heraldo in Spain, the lunchtime...

Removing universities from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act could remove nearly £4 billion of taxpayers’ money from public scrutiny, more than the budget of some central Government departments, the News Media Association has said today. Responding to...

European law-making institutions have strengthened the media exemption in the draft Trade Secrets Directive, in a political breakthrough that should pave the way to it being adopted later this year. The Directive, which aims to harmonise EU-wide protection for commercially...

A pilot scheme aimed at granting will gain greater access to Court of Protection hearings for the public and media is set to begin shortly. The News Media Association, which welcomed the “very significant open justice initiative” when it was...

The News Media Association has called for a meeting with Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock to address “inaccurate assumptions” about the news media industry in a recent report on Government communications strategy.   NMA deputy chief executive Lynne Anderson said...