Local news from the UK’s regional press industry was read by 43.7 million people in December, data from Comscore has revealed. In total, 85.8 per cent of the UK’s adult, online population used local news in December, up from 79...

The tech platforms are continuing to eat into other media sectors’ share of advertiser spend as the coronavirus pandemic severely depresses ad revenues for the content creators.     Adspend figures for Q3 2020 from AA/Warc published this week show that...

Trusted journalism has never been more important for audiences than it is now, and the new online harms regime will uphold freedom of expression, Ofcom group director of broadcasting and online content Kevin Bakhurst has said. In a piece for...

The Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust has presented the 2020 Astor Award to Professor Robert Pinker for his outstanding contribution to press freedom across the Commonwealth. The Astor Award is one of the most prestigious – and one of the...

Publishers spoke of the importance of quality journalism and have called on peers to work towards some of the industry’s key asks, chiefly regulation of the tech giants, exemption from Online Harms and retaining the statutory requirement for public...

      The Information Commissioner’s Office has announced that it is resuming its investigation into real time bidding and the adtech industry The investigation, which the News Media Association and its members have fully engaged with, was paused in May last year...

Calls for Rishi Sunak to expand the business rates relief scheme for local newspapers have been renewed after Northern Ireland announced a further 12 months of relief for local news media there.   Local newspapers in Scotland and Northern Ireland benefit...

The coronavirus pandemic cast a spotlight on the vital importance of trusted news and information produced by news media publishers, with audiences for local and national journalism rising sharply, amidst repeated national lockdowns and restrictions. Facing unprecedented declines in...

The News Media Association has today written to the Transport Secretary after a new threat to public notices emerged in the form of a Government report recommending the abolition of the requirement for transport notices to be advertised in...