Andrew Neil leaves BBC to head up new channel GB News
Andrew Neil is launching a 24-hour TV channel to rival rolling news from the BBC and Sky. The broadcaster will be the face and chairman of GB News, signalling the end of his relationship with the BBC,...
View ArticleNew guidelines for UK journalists on reporting road collisions suggest...
New guidelines have been created for reporting on road collisions, following in the footsteps of similar best practice on stories relating to suicide, domestic violence and refugees. The draft...
View ArticleTalkradio's Jamie East quits after fellow presenter cut up face mask on air
Talkradio presenter Jamie East has left the station after one of his colleagues cut up a face mask live on air. East, who presented a Sunday afternoon slot on the News UK station for the past two...
View ArticleJuly National press ABCs: Free dailies Standard and Metro see slow...
The UK’s national Sunday newspapers failed to continue their recovery after the lockdown sales slump, as the FT saw the biggest month-on-month growth. Every Sunday title audited by ABC saw a...
View ArticleNew BBC director-general threatens to suspend staff Twitter accounts if not...
The BBC’s new director-general has said the corporation could force its talent to leave Twitter if they are not sufficiently politically impartial when using the social media platform. Tim Davie said...
View ArticleITV News editor Geoff Hill issues emotional message to staff as illness...
ITV News editor Geoff Hill has stepped down and bid an emotional farewell to staff after the return of the cancer he has fought for three years. Hill, who was appointed ITV News editor in 2013, told...
View ArticleGoogle pledges to pay $1bn to news publishers over next three years
Google will pay $1bn to news publishers around the world over the next three years and let them make more editorial decisions about how their content appears on its products. But a collective of...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards attracts record entries with huge boost to diversity
Entries are now closed for the 2020 British Journalism Awards with a record number of entries for this year’s event. More than 600 entries have been submitted for the 25 award categories reflecting the...
View ArticleDaily Mash editor: 'There's an incredible amount of fact-checking given we're...
The editor of the Daily Mash has said “there’s always an angle” for a joke – even when the regimes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson seem beyond satire. Tom Whiteley said it can feel like it’s “very...
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Owen Jones talks about online abuse of journalists and living with 'constant...
Guardian columnist Owen Jones has advised journalists targeted by online abuse to “take it seriously” after he saw for himself how it can trickle into real life – but urged colleagues to “never to let...
View ArticleYoutuber Darren Grimes threatened with arrest over reporting of David...
Right-wing commentator and Youtuber Darren Grimes has been threatened with arrest if he does not appear for a police interview following his interview with the historian David Starkey. Grimes has been...
View ArticleBBC's Newsnight condemned by Ofcom over 'very serious' privacy intrusion...
Ofcom has upheld a complaint against Newsnight over the broadcast of images which appeared to show the murdered journalist Lyra McKee in her dying moments. The BBC programme showed mobile phone footage...
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Journalists need more training on advanced verification techniques to curb...
Journalists have been confronted with a “tsunami” of Covid-19 disinformation since the start of the pandemic including a concerning amount from governments and state officials, according to a new study...
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Axios CEO Jim VandeHei: Digital media's 'crap trap' is gone... now we face a...
In 2016, between his resignation from Politico and the founding of news startup Axios, Jim VandeHei caused a stir in the digital media world by accusing several peers of falling into the “crap trap” –...
View ArticlePamco: UK national news websites see Covid-19 audience fatigue but strong...
National newspaper brands lost 3m daily digital readers in the second quarter of 2020 after interest in Covid-19 news spiked in March. But combined print and digital audiences still continued to grow...
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Paywalls, micropayments and donations: How regional press giants are trying...
How to make quality news pay is the central dilemma facing the journalism industry in the digital age – and nowhere more so than at the local and regional level. Local news plays a vital role in...
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Platform profile of Apple News: The traffic is 'incredible' - but money is...
Oprah Winfrey best summed up the advantages of having your content feature prominently on iPhones when speaking at an Apple event in March 2019. “They’re in a billion pockets, y’all – a billion...
View ArticleEvening Standard journalists leave in latest round of Covid-19 job cuts
Evening Standard journalists have paid tribute to “talented” colleagues made redundant as Covid-19 restrictions forced job cuts in the newsroom. At least 16 journalists at the London title have...
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Could a Spotify-style model save the global newspaper and magazine industry?
In 2005, as the Arctic Monkeys belted out of every radio, global revenue for the recorded music industry was still riding reasonably high at around $20bn , according to IFPI. But it was about to fall...
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New Scientist editor Emily Wilson: 'We've completely changed our business,...
New Scientist editor Emily Wilson has been busy. The popular science magazine has been forced, like so many publishers, to adapt and reform its business to the ‘new normal’ of life with Covid-19, which...
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