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Theresa May says Russia is seeking to 'sow discord' by planting fake news and...
Prime Minister Theresa May last night attacked Russia for its role in spreading false information in the Western media. Addressing the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the City of London’s Guildhall last night,...
View ArticleRegional press group Archant tells shareholders that staff numbers decimated...
Regional press group Archant has revealed to shareholders that it cut 11 per cent of its staff in 2017. More than 100 jobs have gone across the group to the current total of 1,160 full-time-equivalent...
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Journalists and Grenfell Tower: 'You aren't the guys getting the call at 2.30...
A national newspaper website journalist decided not to attend Press Gazette’s Grenfell Tower debate last night after being told by their editor “nobody’s reading our Grenfell stuff any more”. The story...
View ArticleMail Online moves into profit and posts record revenue of £119m
Mail Online moved into profit in the last quarter of 2017 and cancelled out revenue decline at its sister print titles. Parent company DMGT revealed this morning that the world’s most popular newspaper...
View ArticleJournalists murdered, jailed and beaten up for reporting the truth - new...
Global media freedom is at its lowest level for a decade according to a new international survey published by Article 19. The wide-ranging V-Dem project saw academics gather data on freedom of...
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Survey finds that UK journalists are less trusted than estate agents -...
Journalists are again among the least trusted professions in the UK according to the annual Ipsos Mori Veracity Index. Just 27 per cent of Britons surveyed trust journalists to tell them the truth...
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FT editor Lionel Barber calls on 'deeply flawed' social media networks to...
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has said social media networks are “deeply flawed news outlets” as he called on them to “drop the pretence” that they are not themselves media companies. Speaking...
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Paradise Papers was 'most complicated project ever' for Guardian says head of...
Covering the Paradise Papers was “the most complicated project the Guardian has ever been involved in” – even more so than last year’s Panama Papers, according to the newspaper’s head of investigations...
View ArticleEditor and other Saga Magazine journalists axed in pre-Christmas mass...
Insurance and holidays group Saga has made 100 staff redundant including the editor of its monthly magazine. Press Gazette understands that Saga Magazine editor Kate Bravery and art director Paul...
View ArticleJohnston Press says it is now making £1m a month profit from i newspaper
Johnston Press has revealed that the i newspaper is now making an average monthly profit of £1m. And it said the profit margin of the title in the second half of this year was 30 per cent of turnover,...
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Cambridge News editor says sorry to readers over missing front page headline
The editor of the Cambridge News has apologised to readers after publishing a front page with dummy text in place of a main headline. The daily paper ran with the headline: “100PT SPLASH HEADING HERE”...
View ArticleMost of 150 new BBC-funded Local Democracy reporters go to Trinity Mirror,...
The lion’s share of contracts for the pool of 150 BBC-funded “local democracy reporters” have been awarded to the UK’s largest local newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror. The Manchester Evening News...
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FT editor Lionel Barber calls on 'deeply flawed' social media networks to...
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber has said social media networks are “deeply flawed news outlets” as he called on them to “drop the pretence” that they are not themselves media companies. Speaking...
View ArticleReport: Young newspaper readers spend nearly twice as much time with print...
Young people spend nearly twice as much time reading print newspapers compared with online and app editions of newsbrands, according to new research. In 2016, 18 to 34-year-old British readers of eight...
View ArticleDisgraced publicist Max Clifford dies in hospital after being taken ill in jail
Disgraced former celebrity publicist Max Clifford, whose ties to Fleet Street helped him gain maximum exposure for his fame-hungry clients, has died. The 74-year-old was said to be “in a bad way”...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards 2017: Nick Ferrari is journalist of the year, full...
LBC presenter Nick Ferrari has become the first radio industry winner of the Journalist of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards. He picked up the prize at the awards dinner on Monday night...
View ArticleMPs say Facebook could take legal responsibility as a publisher post Brexit...
Brexit could make it easier to ensure online media companies take more legal responsibility for curbing “persistent, vile and shocking abuse” suffered by politicians and public figures, the official...
View ArticleNews UK, Johnston Press and FT among publishers given millions by Google news...
The Times and Sunday Times are among the latest publications to get funding from Google’s Digital News Initiative innovation fund. The News UK-owned publisher has received a “large” grant, defined us...
View ArticleGovernment decision on press regulation looks set to be delayed by...
The government has indicated a decision on press regulation is set to be delayed until after the intervention of Sir Brian Leveson, head of the original independent inquiry into the press. Peers at...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch sells Sky to Disney as part of multi-billion dollar deal
Walt Disney has taken over Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox in a deal worth $52.4bn (£39bn), with Sky included in the package. The deal, which was announced this afternoon, will see Disney acquire the...
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