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Print ABCs: Metro overtakes Sun in UK weekday distribution, but Murdoch title...

Metro has overtaken The Sun for the first time in terms of the average number of weekday copies the two titles distribute across the UK, new ABC figures for May show. Free title the Metro has a total...

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Sun 'completely refutes' claim its reporter impersonated relative of injured...

The Sun has said it “completely refutes” an accusation that one of its reporters claimed to be a relative of one of the people injured in the Grenfell Tower fire to gain access to them in hospital....

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1,500 complain to IPSO over Mail Online story naming Grenfell Tower resident...

Press regulator IPSO has received more than 1,500 complaints over a Mail Online story which names and pictures a Grenfell Tower resident whose fridge is reported to have started last week’s devastating...

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Grenfell disaster: BBC Panorama reveals ministers were repeatedly warned...

BBC Panorama revealed last night how ministers were repeatedly warned that fire regulations were not keeping people safe in a programme about the Grenfell Tower fire. It also revealed that firefighters...

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Welsh Assembly responds to decline of nation's media with plan to recruit its...

The National Assembly for Wales is considering recruiting its own team of journalists as a response to the decline of media covering the nation. A report by the Assembly’s “Digital Taskforce” proposes...

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'Fake news', 'fascist left', 'purveyors of hate' - Daily Mail declares...

The Daily Mail has launched its most savage ever editorial attack on long-time critic The Guardian accusing it of “fake news” and being a “purveyor of hatred”. The excoriating attack appears to be a...

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Government says it is committed to scrapping Section 40 and Leveson 2 - but...

The Government has said it is committed to repealing Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act and scrapping part two of the Leveson Inquiry. But with no mention of either measure in yesterday’s Queen’s...

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Former Kensington reporter says local press would have picked up on Grenfell...

A journalist who worked on local papers in Kensington nearly 30 years ago has said he is sure the fire safety concerns of Grenfell Tower residents would have found a voice before the decline in...

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'I knew I had to face the attackers down' - injured Sunday Express journalist...

A Sunday Express journalist stabbed in the neck after confronting three terrorists in Saturday’s attack on London Bridge has given his account of the ordeal. Ho, whose injuries resulted in him being...

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Chief exec of US online publishers group backs Press Gazette Google/Facebook...

Imagine if a company could track the online movements of nearly every human on the planet. So they knew not just the basic stuff like where they live and work and how old they are, but everything they...

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NRS national press readership data: Telegraph overtakes Guardian as most-read...

The Daily Telegraph has overtaken the The Guardian to become the most-read ‘quality’ newspaper brand in the UK, according to new data released by the Publishers Audience Management Company (Pamco). It...

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Residents of Grenfell Tower housing estate in bid to launch newspaper to...

Residents on the Lancaster West Estate, site of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, are hoping to create a local newspaper to help those affected by the tragedy keep up-to-date with new information....

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp applauds EU's £2.1bn fine for Google over abuse of...

Google has been hit with a record fine of 2.42 billion euros (£2.1 billion) by Europe’s competition watchdog after breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service. The European Commission...

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Al Jazeera English chief says Saudi-led ultimatum is most serious threat...

Al Jazeera’s offices around the world have been shut down, bombed and its journalists locked up. But today it faces the greatest threat to its existence in its 20-year history with the demand from...

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Reuters Digital News Report reveals sharp decline in those trusting UK news...

The Reuters Digital News Report has found a sharp fall in trust for UK news media over the last year. Its UK findings are based on a Yougov survey of 2,000 and it found that 43 per cent said they trust...

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John Simpson: Forced closure of Al Jazeera would be 'serious step backwards...

A Saudi-led bid to close down Al Jazeera is both “shocking” and “disturbing” according to the BBC’s John Simpson, who said the news network offered “one of the most energetic and intelligent voices in...

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Culture Secretary 'minded to' refer Rupert Murdoch's £12bn Sky takeover bid...

Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has said she is minded refer Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to a fuller investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority over media plurality concerns. Rupert...

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Kensington council declares Grenfell fire meeting closed as reporters arrive...

A meeting of senior councillors linked to the Grenfell Tower tragedy descended into chaos when it was scrapped as journalists entered the room. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea leader Nicholas...

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Photographer behind Evening Standard's front page image of London tower block...

The Evening Standard’s powerful front page photograph of the tower block inferno in west London was taken by staff photographer Jeremy Selwyn, who said the image “is going to stick in my mind”. So far...

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Trinity Mirror hacking scandal costs rise to £35.5m as it reveals 21 per cent...

Trinity Mirror has raised the estimated cost of dealing with phone-hacking claims  by £7.5m to £35.5m. It is facing more than 100 civil claims for phone-hacking over a sustained period perpetrated by...

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