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Editor Oliver Duff on ten years of the i: 'Print will prosper for much longer...
i editor Oliver Duff says it was “good that we weren’t successful too quickly” as he reflects ten years on about launching a new national daily newspaper into the UK’s already crowded market on 26...
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US local journalists could 'all but vanish' without action as 7,000 jobs gone...
Local newspaper newsroom employees in the US could “all but vanish in the next few years” if the rate of lay-offs forced by the Covid-19 crisis so far continues, according to a Senate report. In April,...
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Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler interview: Agency's US election...
It’s not uncommon for a global news agency like Reuters to have to kit out its staff with gas masks and helmets ahead of a major political event. The group, led by editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler, has...
View ArticlePaywalls: New York Times chief Meredith Kopit Levien says 100m will pay for...
The chief executive of the New York Times has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in ten years’ time. Meredith Kopit Levien, who took over from Mark...
View ArticleBBC social media guidelines ban 'virtue signalling', criticism of colleagues...
The BBC’s new social media guidelines include a ban on “virtue signalling” and posting any criticism of colleagues. Staff have also been warned emojis can “undercut an otherwise impartial post” and...
View ArticleCovid-19, women and the media: Study reveals exclusion of female voices in...
Covid-19 is the story which has dominated the the media in 2020, and new research shows that in terms of expert voices – women have been in the tiny minority. The study by the Global Institute for...
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Sun wins libel battle against Johnny Depp over 'wife beater' article
Film star Johnny Depp has lost his libel claim against The Sun newspaper over an article which labelled him a “wife beater”. Depp, 57, sued the tabloid’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and its...
View ArticleAfter recovering from coronavirus hit, Independent eyes global expansion:...
Six months after furloughing staff and cutting wages during the first UK coronavirus pandemic lockdown, The Independent is increasing its US presence and looking to expand into China and India....
View ArticleHow The Daily podcast is helping the New York Times drive advertising and...
The New York Times’ flagship podcast The Daily attracts 4m listeners a day, and is “almost twice as large as the paper was at its peak”, the company’s new chief executive has revealed. Meredith Kopit...
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Smart audio: What publishers need to know about the latest tech revolution
“Smart audio” is an ongoing revolution in the way we get our news that should be seen as on a par with social media or touchscreens, say those in the know, and news organisations need to be paying...
View ArticleUzabase records $55m loss as it sells Quartz to CEO Zachary Seward
Japanese publisher Uzabase recorded a $55m loss on the deal as it sold global business publisher Quartz to its chief executive and co-founder Zachary Seward. The management buyout will see Seward take...
View ArticleBloomberg Media CEO Justin B Smith on new 24/7 streaming channel Quicktake...
As a business news giant with operations in 120 countries, Bloomberg Media suffered from the reverberations of Covid-19 across all major markets this year as the crisis plunged advertising and events...
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The best journalism of 2020 revealed: British Journalism Awards shortlist
Press Gazette today announces the finalists of the 2020 British Journalism Awards. Some 80 judges spent three weeks reading more than 800 entries to come up with the shortlists for each award category....
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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Glasgow crime weekly The Digger hit by arson attack and newsagent intimidation
The publisher of a Glasgow crime magazine had his car set ablaze outside his house in an apparent act of intimidation. On the same night, thugs visited about 30 of the 750 shops that stock The Digger...
View ArticleSubstack: The newsletter platform that's convinced Glenn Greenwald and other...
Imagine a media world where thousands of journalists make a living by writing about niche subject areas and sending out regular newsletters to paying subscribers. This is the future imagined by the...
View ArticleBuzzfeed to buy Huffpost as part of new 'strategic partnership' with Verizon...
Buzzfeed has agreed a deal to buy Huffpost from Verizon Media. The deal, announced on Thursday afternoon, is part of a wider “strategic partnership” agreed between Buzzfeed and Verizon Media. The...
View ArticlePublishers and marketers revolt over Google plans to replace cookies with...
Publishers and marketers have called on the UK’s competition watchdog to delay the rollout of Google’s newest advertising technology release over fears it will “cement its dominance of online...
View ArticleA $71bn recovery: How news businesses have bounced back from Covid-19 slump
Several of the world’s largest news companies are more valuable now than they were before the Covid-19 crisis began, an analysis by Press Gazette has found. All of the 16 publicly-listed companies we...
View ArticleGovernment to create competition regime tackling 'fundamental imbalance of...
A new competition regime designed to rein in the dominance and power of platforms such as Google and Facebook has been announced. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Department for...
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