The new regime to crack down on online harms propagated by the tech platforms will not impact upon the distribution of journalistic content on social media platforms with “robust protections” included in the legislation, John Whittingdale has said.   Speaking at...

The Australian competition authority has granted interim authorisation for local and regional publishers to negotiate collectively with Facebook and Google over payments to publishers for their news content that appears on the platforms. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...

The report, which has been written by press freedom NGOs and media and journalists organisations to the Council of Europe Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists, has found that in Europe “extraordinary damage was...

Reporters Without Borders published their 2021 World Press Freedom Index this week, showing that “journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 74 per cent of the 180 countries ranked”. The Index reveals that journalism is...

MailOnline is suing Google in the United States for alleged anti-competitive behaviour claiming Google exploits its dominance in the ad tech industry to harm rivals and manipulate ad auctions and news search results in a way that punishes online...

The Oldham Evening Chronicle will return to print tomorrow (Friday) as a monthly printed title. It will be the first time the newspaper has been printed regularly since 2017  The title was purchased by Credible Media Group, which owns B2B...

The Government has been urged to extend Freedom of Information Act to contractors providing public goods and services as part of plans for post-Brexit public procurement. The Government’s ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ green paper uses the terms “transparent” or...

The new regulatory regime to rebalance the digital advertising market will focus on making sure that the process of negotiation between publishers and the tech platforms is fair, rather than setting prices for transactions, the Competition and Markets Authority...

There have been six journalists and four media assistants killed globally since January 2021, according to Reporters Without Borders, and the death of Giorgos Karaivaz last week marks the fourth death of a journalist in Europe in the past...