Recent profit announcements by tech platforms demonstrate how rapidly they are using their monopoly positions to extract revenues from markets in which they operate and generate “abnormal” levels of profit, European publishers have said. News Media Europe, of which the...

Newsquest has announced today a major recruitment drive to hire 50 new digital sales consultants as part of its ongoing expansion of its digital marketing activities. This follows on from the company’s announcement earlier this month of a £1.5 million...

The need for trusted and verifiable sources of journalism has never been greater yet the threats it faces have become existential as advertising revenues evaporate, Lord Black of Brentwood has warned. Speaking in a House of Lords debate on the...

National, regional and local news publishers are continuing a variety of initiatives to support media literacy across the UK. In March 2021, The Telegraph launched a Media Literacy Programme for 16-18 year olds about the importance of quality, edited news...

Former Prime Minister Theresa May has backed local news media over its campaign for public notices to stay in local newspapers, while praising the industry’s moves to make the notices more visible. The local news media industry is creating an...

The “significant data advantages” enjoyed by Google and Facebook which stifle fair competition exist at such a scale that they are “insurmountable without regulatory intervention,” the Competition and Markets Authority and Information Commissioner’s Office have said...

Tickets for an event announcing the results of the Advertising Association's All In census of the advertising industry are still available.  The results of the largest ever study of the advertising industry’s workforce that gathered data from 16,500 professionals will be...

The News Media Association has welcomed efforts in the Online Safety Bill to exempt journalistic content from the new regime to tackle online harms which demonstrates significant progress since the Government’s initial consultation two years ago.   The new regime, which...

Amnesty International has warned of a grave threat to press freedom in Northern Ireland through intimidation of journalists, after a reporter was sent threat to rape her young child. Patricia Devlin, who works for the Sunday World, has previously received...