British Journalism Awards 2019: Full list of categories and criteria for entry
Press Gazette is proud to launch the British Journalism Awards for 2019. This is the only major journalism awards event in the UK which is open to all journalists, regardless of medium, and which has a...
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Mirror and Express team up for campaign to bring people together amid Brexit...
The Mirror and Express newspapers have teamed up, despite their “polarised” political views, for a campaign to bring “the nation back together” amid the divisions brought about by the Brexit vote....
View ArticleUK climbs press freedom rankings but global picture shows anger at media has...
The UK has risen in the world press freedom rankings, but is still one of the “worst-performing countries in Western Europe”, researchers say. Press freedom group Reporters without Borders (Reporters...
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Journalist Lyra McKee, 29, shot dead during Derry rioting
Lyra McKee, a freelance writer and journalist who wrote about the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, was shot dead last night in what police described as a “terrorist incident”. The...
View ArticleActivist loses IPSO complaint against Janice Turner column in Times about...
A transwoman who resigned as a comment awards judge in protest at the shortlisting of Times columnist Janice Turner has lost a complaint about one of the journalist’s columns on the issue of...
View ArticleJudge orders Bloomberg to pay £25,000 in damages to businessman over report...
Bloomberg has been ordered to pay £25,000 in damages to a US businessman over an article which revealed details of an ongoing criminal investigation into him taken from a leaked confidential letter....
View ArticleNick Robinson defends BBC from press attacks and calls Russian-backed...
Nick Robinson has spoken out in defence of the BBC, which has been lately rounded on by sections of the press, and labelled Russian-backed broadcaster RT a “propaganda” channel and a “threat”. The...
View ArticleGuardian group meets target to break even at end of three-year financial...
Guardian News and Media, publisher of the Guardian and Observer titles, has announced today that it has broken even after a three-year strategy to turn its finances around, edging back into the black....
View ArticleShortlist 'no longer aimed at men' with relaunch of website funded by product...
Shortlist has revealed it is “no longer aimed at men” with the relaunch of its new website, which is largely funded by affiliate links to products it reviews. The new website went live this morning,...
View ArticleEvening Standard to cut editorial roles in merger of digital and print teams
The Evening Standard will cut editorial jobs as it merges its print and online teams, editor George Osborne told staff today. The announcement comes almost a year after the Standard revealed an...
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Jailed Reuters pair freed by presidential pardon after 500 days behind bars...
Two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar for more than 500 days were released today under a presidential pardon. Wa Lone, 33, (pictured, left) and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were each serving a seven-year prison...
View ArticleCentaur Media sells engineering titles to Mark Allen Group as profits climb
B2B publisher Centaur Media has sold its engineering titles to the Mark Allen Group in a £2.5m deal, on the back of rising profits. The sale will see The Engineer, Subcon and Advanced Manufacturing...
View ArticleSister of murdered journalist Lyra McKee urges killers to hand themselves in
The sister of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has appealed for her sibling’s killers to hand themselves in to police. Nichola Corner said it was a “terrible irony” that her sister’s killers have robbed...
View ArticleMonocle intern claims victory and £2,000 after title admits underpaying her
An intern has claimed a victory after receiving a cheque for more than £2,000 from Monocle, settling a dispute over unpaid wages. Amalia Illgner took Monocle to an employment tribunal over claims she...
View ArticleIrish News journalist settles libel action against ex-DUP politician over...
A Belfast journalist has won an apology and a charity donation from a former Democratic Unionist Party politician over false and “seriously defamatory” posts made about her online and on social media....
View Article£65k legal bill for reporter after failed bid to challenge lawyer's 'unlawful...
An ex-News of the World journalist faces legal costs of up to £64,500 after failing in a High Court bid to challenge a claim that he had engaged the illegal services of a private investigator for...
View Article'VIP paedophile ring' source 'Nick' is himself 'manipulative paedophile',...
The man accused of lying about a Westminster VIP ring of child abusers and killers is himself a “committed and manipulative paedophile”, a court has heard. Carl Beech, known by the pseudonym “Nick”,...
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Sheffield Star handed first new-look website in JPI Media digital revamp
The Sheffield Star has become the first of JPI Media’s news titles to be given a new-look website under the publisher’s digital revamping plans, with a quicker-loading website and fewer “intrusive...
View ArticleRAJARs: Radio audiences grow as 32m tune in to news and current affairs in...
Nearly 32m people listened to news and current affairs radio in the first three months of the year, new audience figures show. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme grew its weekly audience to 7.32m listeners,...
View ArticleIPSO rejects complaint from Sir Philip Green's retail group over Telegraph...
Press regulator IPSO has thrown out a complaint by Arcadia Group, owned by Sir Philip Green, after it claimed the Telegraph harassed the company by contacting current and former staff at their homes....
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