News UK’s programme for aspiring journalists The News Academy is hosting its second annual Summer School - a free week-long intensive training programme for students from across UK and Ireland. Twenty talented students aged 16 to 18 have been selected...

The RNLI has launched a wave of Featurelink activity across the local press to promote its fish supper fundraising initiative.  The charity - a regular user of Local Media Works’ native content service - has run ads next to editorial...

The audience of UK newsbrands is 46.7 million adults each month, according to the latest National Readership Survey release. Nine in 10 adults in Great Britain consume a newsbrand either in print or digitally, according to the figures. Seventy per cent...

Hammersmith and Fulham Council have awarded the three-year contract for publication of their public notices to the Fulham Chronicle, one of the Tindle Newspapers' London titles. “This was good news for the local press”, said Philip Evans joint managing director of...

Archant has reported a strong start to the year and modest revenue growth in a letter to shareholders from chairman Simon Bax. Reporting on the first six months’ performance, Mr Bax said that profits are ahead of budget and the...

News organisations, whose coverage of the Notting Hill Carnival over many years has contributed to worldwide recognition of the event, have deplored restrictive media rules for this year’s parade.  Despite the valuable publicising and promotional effect of news photography and...

The News Media Association has launched a new legal resources facility for member national, regional and local press publishers. The online resource is accessible by logging on to the new legal resources section of the NMA website. Members’ staff are now...

News Corporation chief executive Robert Thomson has renewed his attack on content aggregators, singling out Google for its disregard of copyright, and likened LinkedIn to “spam central”. “We are living in the decade of content distribution, which is not necessarily...

The Government has agreed to increase the power of local authority committees to scrutinise elected mayors following representations from the News Media Association. In a letter to the NMA from Local Government Minister Baroness Williams, the Government commits to granting...