The News Media Association has stressed the need for public notices to stay in printed local newspapers after the major reforms to the planning system were trailed in Queen’s Speech earlier this week. A summary of forthcoming legislation said the...

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...

The News Media Association has said that fake news websites which scrape and republish content from real journalistic outlets to gain advertising revenue pose a direct threat journalism and should be stopped. Several examples of fake news websites targeting genuine local...

The News Media Association has issued 1,105 press cards to newsgatherers working in the news media industry over the period of April 2020 to March 2021. Press cards are formally recognised by all police forces in the UK, by the...

Newsquest has announced a major new £1.5 million per annum investment in local journalism with the recruitment of 50 new digital journalist roles across the UK. Of the 50 new roles, 32 will be local digital journalists assigned to specific...

Reach’s digital revenues have grown by 35 per cent in the first four months of the year, according to trading update released ahead of the publisher’s annual general meeting today. The publisher announced a continued growth in registrations; now at...

European publishers have welcomed the European Commission’s decision to send Apple a statement of objections, following a complaint introduced by Spotify in 2019. Like Spotify, European news publishers suffer from Apple’s anti-competitive commercial practices, News Media Europe, of...

Eight out of 10 people want to put their differences aside and come together as a nation, a new study reveals.   Against a backdrop of Brexit and the pandemic, 74 per cent of those surveyed admitted that in recent years they had lost...

The tech giants’ share of ad spend soared during the coronavirus pandemic while every other media sector, including the investors in content which has kept people informed during the crisis, reported dramatic declines. Published this morning, the full year ad...