Monty's back: JPI Media sold to David Montgomery's Local World Plc for £10.2m
David Montgomery’s investment vehicle National World Plc has agreed to buy the UK’s fourth-largest local newspaper group JPI Media for £10.2m. The sale price is a tiny fraction of what JPI Media was...
View ArticleDubai-based investment group and pro Brexit invester among £60m funders to...
Bosses of news channel GB News have confirmed two new backers for its 24-hour TV and online service set to launch in the UK later this year with the creation of 140 jobs. In the latest funding round,...
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Media trends survey: Three out of four news leaders say subscriptions will be...
Three-quarters of top media bosses worldwide are confident about their company’s prospects for 2021 according to a media trends survey from the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. Most said they...
View ArticleTrust, truth and making news pay: Editors outline the biggest challenges for...
It may be a new year, but many of the challenges facing journalism in 2021 are not new. The question of how to make news pay remains, as do concerns over trust and truth, both of which have been eroded...
View ArticleTech platforms now editors says Hancock as Trump banned from social media and...
The decision by some social media giants to ban US President Donald Trump from their platforms raises a “very big question” in terms of regulation, Matt Hancock has said. Twitter, Facebook and...
View Article'Newspaper man' David Montgomery's local vision for JPI welcomed by staff -...
JPI Media insiders have welcomed David Montgomery’s plan to give decision-making powers back to local newsrooms. And former editors at Montgomery’s last local news venture in the UK, Local World, have...
View ArticleInterview: New York Times explains the in-house adtech it is using to prepare...
From the outside, it may appear that advertising is now insignificant for the New York Times when compared with its soaring digital subscriptions business. But while the company’s 6m-plus paying online...
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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 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 new Trump bump: How Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy and far-right outlets...
For alternative right-wing US news outlets, November 2020 could prove to be a flash in the pan – the high point of their popularity, fuelled by pro-Trump, often conspiratorial, coverage of the US...
View ArticleTelegraph boosts pre-tax profit to £6.2m for 2019 - making for £452m total...
Telegraph Media Group’s pre-tax profits since the Barclay brothers took ownership in 2004 have now reached a total of £452m – still £213m less than they paid for it. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay...
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Sun editor Victoria Newton hails 'incredible public service' of newspapers as...
The Sun’s campaign to get 50,000 volunteers signed up to help at Covid-19 vaccine hubs has reached its target after 18 days. Sun editor Victoria Newton, who did her own volunteering shift stewarding...
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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 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...
View ArticleRespect for journalists and big tech accountability: News industry's wishlist...
After four years of unrelenting verbal abuse from Donald Trump, the US news media is hoping today’s inauguration of President Joe Biden will mark the resumption of a “respectful” relationship between...
View ArticleMedia themes for the Biden era: Newsroom wars, subscription echo chambers and...
Brian Morrissey has covered the US media for more than a decade, as editor in chief of Digiday and now on is own newsletter The Rebooting. Here he looks at the future for news media in post-President...
View ArticleAlternative ways of funding journalism: Crowdfunding has raised $20m+ and...
The 30 single-biggest crowdfunded projects in journalism have raised $21 million since 2012, research by Press Gazette has revealed. Spanish online newspaper El Español which was set up by El Mundo...
View ArticleBarbara Blake-Hannah urges media giant Fremantle to 'repair the racist wrong'...
TV production company Fremantle has declined to “repair the racist wrong” done to Barbara Blake-Hannah when she was sacked by its sub-brand Thames in 1968. Thames TV became part of the company that...
View ArticleFacebook's cash-for-content News scheme launches in the UK with most...
Today marks a milestone for online publishers in the UK as Facebook begins paying to use their content on its News tab. The Facebook News section of the platform’s app will feature a “today’s stories”...
View ArticleFull recovery for UK ad market predicted this year with growth faster than...
The UK’s advertising market is expected to recover from Covid-19 faster than the US, China and the rest of Europe this year with the vaccine rollout and greater certainty around Brexit allowing an...
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