Right-wing activist James Goddard handed restraining order over threats to...
A right-wing activist has been given a restraining order for abusing a journalist at court, leaving her “looking over her shoulder” for danger while at work. Independent home affairs and security...
View ArticleFacebook to pay UK publishers for content with launch of Facebook News tab...
Facebook today announces plans to share some of the estimated £5bn a year it makes from advertising in the UK with the launch of a new Facebook News tab on its app in January. The move will see the...
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Ozone: How UK publishers are competing with duopoly to offer scale and quality
Digital advertising is moving into a “different chapter” where transparency is key and publishers will play “a much more active role in deciding what changes will come through in the future”. These...
View ArticleHow Jeff Bezos' Washington Post is taking on Google and Facebook with...
Since the global financial crisis, news publishers – many hit by crippling revenue declines – have made several failed attempts to pool their advertising resources for the greater good. There was...
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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...
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The News 50: Tech giants dwarf Rupert Murdoch to become the biggest news...
The top 50 biggest news media companies in the English-speaking world are today revealed in an exclusive ranking, based on relevant revenue, compiled by Press Gazette. Ten years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards 2020 News Provider of the Year shortlist revealed
Eight news organisations have been shortlisted for the coveted News Provider of the Year prize at this year’s Press Gazette British Journalism Awards. The award goes to the news organisation that has...
View ArticleJournalism in time of Covid: Newsroom leaders have ignored wellbeing impact...
John Crowley ran a survey of journalists in March and April to ask them how they were coping with lockdown. In an excerpt from his co-authored report Journalism in the Time of Covid they reveal what it...
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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 ArticleWhy robot? Sharp traffic fall for MSN following move to AI-driven editing
Comscore data shows that Yahoo/Huffpost overtook MSN as the most popular news aggregator in the UK after the latter replaced its human editors with AI-driven robots. Verizon’s Yahoo-HuffPost News...
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British Journalism Awards winners 2020: FT's Dan McCrum crowned journalist of...
Dan McCrum of the Financial Times has been named the British Journalism Awards Journalist of the Year for his investigation into German payments company Wirecard, which exposed a multi-billion euro...
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Daily Mail's Robert Hardman on how tabloid flew £1m of PPE into Heathrow at...
The Daily Mail’s campaign to deliver 42m pieces of PPE to NHS and care workers this year showed that “old media still has a role to play”, according to one of the journalists spearheading the drive....
View ArticleWatch: The moment Barbara Blake-Hannah gives Kuba Shand-Baptiste the first...
Kuba Shand-Baptiste has been named as the first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah award for an up-and-coming journalist from a BAME background. Shand-Baptiste was nominated for her work on the Voices...
View ArticleMore regulatory curbs on Facebook and Google with European Digital Services...
Google and Facebook could have to reveal how much advertising cash is passed onto publishers under Europe’s clampdown on the tech giants. The Digital Services Act published on Tuesday by the European...
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The 100k Club: Most popular subscription news websites in the world revealed
Two dozen English-language news publishers and publications have collected 100,000 or more digital-only subscriptions, new research by Press Gazette has found. Between them, the 24 news brands share...
View ArticleWashington Post plans to grow newsroom to record size (1,000+ journalists) in...
The Washington Post plans to have a larger newsroom in 2021 than at any point in its history after recently setting digital subscription and online advertising records. In a memo sent to staff on...
View ArticleEnter Sandbox: How Google is building an internet without cookies - and why...
Cookies are soon to be a thing of the past; Google wants to play in the Sandbox instead. It might sound rather twee, but this marks a seismic shift in the online ecosystem that will affect us all. The...
View ArticleIndependent TV launches as title reports revenue up 23% year on year
The Independent has launched a dedicated online channel for its video output as it revealed positive financial results. The publisher said its revenue was up 23% year on year in the final quarter of...
View ArticleTop 50 largest news websites in the world revealed: Controversial pro-Trump...
Controversial US media outlets Newsmax and Gateway Pundit became two of the world’s largest news websites last month, new research has found. In a global ranking of the top 50 English-language news...
View ArticleMost popular news apps in the UK and around the world for 2020 revealed
The BBC News app was downloaded 2.2 million times in 2020 making it the most popular newly-installed news app in the UK during the year. The mobile apps of other big name publishers proved similarly...
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